AdrianC: How do we make that work? I want transgender kids to be treated equally, and I want girls sport to thrive. How to achieve both?

A couple of schools of thought: one, since there are so few transgender athletes in high school and college sports (who already face enormous prejudice in sports and in life), just let them compete. After all, there are many factors which differentiate individual performance, not just size and testosterone levels; two, create a Women's Sports Umbrella in which athletes would compete in the transgender scoring category only if they choose to join a women's team and possess the male-puberty performance advantage.

Generally, I think this is a non-issue that conservative politicians latched onto as red-meat for the hateful. I've had this discussion with some of my relatives who love hating transgender athletes in spite of not being able to name one or point out a competition that had been unfairly won by a transgender athlete.


Anyway, if interested, you can read about both paths at the following links:

https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbtq-rights/four-myths-...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/donnalopiano/2022/08/...

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