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LurkerMom:
NewEchota quoted a line from the article I posted and presented it in a way to appear it is a line I said.First, since you frequently respond to my posts, you must know that in my replies I always identify the poster I'm responding to and quote from his/her post. Otherwise, it becomes difficult to understand the context of a reply. Second, if you wanted to have a rational discussion about transgender athletes, why choose to quote a blurb by an individual who The Southern Poverty Law Center has identified as a White Nationalist and others have called a racist?
Anyway, I poked around to find out more about the Mountain Lions transgender player, Rose Johnson. She is primarily a shot blocker rather than a scorer but at 6'1" is a dominant presence in the paint. The team record, at 14-7, is not dominant, though, nor are the Mountain Lions the best team in the tournament.
As far as whether or not transgender athletes should be allowed to compete, well, we should probably start with some facts, such as the fact that transgender youth are a very small minority of the U.S. population ' 1.8 percent of high school students, according to a 2019 CDC report. The subset of transgender athletes is significantly smaller.
From the Washington Post:
In an interview, Safer emphasized that, despite the advantages conferred by testosterone, the list of known examples of transgender girls and women succeeding in sports, at any level, is vanishingly short.
There has never been an openly transgender athlete in the Olympics; the first three, all women, could compete this summer in Tokyo [Note: there were actually four: Laurel Hubbard placed last in her group; Quinn, a soccer mid-fielder, was on the Gold Medal Canadian team; Chelsea Wolfe was an alternate and did not compete; Alana Smith, a skateboarder, finished 20th].
There has been one openly transgender woman champion in the history of NCAA: CeCe Telfer, a Franklin Pierce University runner who won the Division II 400-meter hurdles in 2019. On the high school level, there are just Miller and Yearwood in Connecticut.
Said Safer, 'The important thing to consider here, as it relates to high school sports and teenagers, is are we addressing a problem that actually exists, or are we simply addressing a fear?'I'll offer these resources for discussion of transgender rights and transgender lives in competitive sports:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/04/15/t...https://www.forbes.com/sites/donnalopiano/2022/08/...https://adflegal.org/article/why-male-athletes-who...https://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/wp-content/... 