Thank you very much for this link. I'll leave the conversation going on with this - I’ve never met an LGBTQIA issue I haven’t supported, and yet that’s not where I stand on gender identification in sports. Like I said, it’s complicated. I see things as Malcolm Gladwell expressed them several years ago in a New Yorker article: “I’ve been astonished at how many people fail to appreciate the athletic significance of this. Remember, this is a competitive issue, not a human-rights issue.”
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Kind of agree.
I know absolutely nothing about the challenges, frustrations, fears, dangers and experiences of transgender, gender fluid, gender changing individuals. I'm sure it's a much, much harder life than mine. Making fun of it isn't that cool.
And yet the Olympics ban a biological female who has naturally high testosterone levels from competing against other females.
Texas high school forces a fully transitioned male (transitioned from female) to wrestle in the female division because that's what the birth certificate says.
Most of these guidelines and rules are poorly thought out and even more poorly implemented.
Texas high school forces a fully transitioned male (transitioned from female) to wrestle in the female division because that's what the birth certificate says.
Most of these guidelines and rules are poorly thought out and even more poorly implemented.
Florida HS (FHSAA) actually has a reasonable policy that is well developed. Which is weird because they do manage to screw a lot of other things up.
I did see it in action with some people I know that served on several committees that have to form to hear, review and make decisions on an individual transgender athlete request to compete in 'gender separated' HS sports. The process was brutal, lengthy and was no fun for anyone involved in any way. The thought of someone voluntarily going through that is beyond any belief I have.
I did see it in action with some people I know that served on several committees that have to form to hear, review and make decisions on an individual transgender athlete request to compete in 'gender separated' HS sports. The process was brutal, lengthy and was no fun for anyone involved in any way. The thought of someone voluntarily going through that is beyond any belief I have.
I need to know your last 40 time, and when it was, before I place any bets.
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A girl my DD used to compete against in HS was a golf long drive champion. She left the sport because she was competing against trans-whatever males every week.
But it's way easier to have a regressive opinion based on not having important information.
This scientist is racing to discover how gender transitions alter athletic performance—including her own
Following her groundbreaking study of transgender runners, Joanna Harper now advises sporting bodies on the role of testosterone in athletics
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It doesn't matter how long they suppress their t levels. An 18-19 yo male that may have hit puberty at 13 has had the benefit of testosterone and the biological females will not have a fair chance against them. That is entirely different than griping about a bigger kid pitching faster.
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Why don't people actually quote the posts they are referring to..kind of like what I am doing right here.
Some people may be complaining entirely due to the unfair competition aspect of it, which I agree with. But from the tone of some of the posts there is more to it than simply that in some cases...
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