To me, having Transgender Females compete with biologic females is inherently unfair and violates Title IX. Girls need to compete against other girls and Transgender females can have major physical advantages which can heavily tilt the competition their way. I honestly don’t see this applying to everything, such as Chess being separated between women and men. For what reason? Or race car driving.
It also sets a very bad precedent for the trans community, it can breed animosity when they should be striving for acceptance and integration into society on a wider scale. This doesn’t help matters.
For Trans males, it is different, they are the ones at a disadvantage for the most part, if they want to compete against biologic males.
There is only one solution, and that is not a separate category. There simply isn’t enough of them that this would make any sense. It is simply that Transgender people should be encouraged to enjoy sports and excercise but when it comes to competitive sports, they really don’t have a viable avenue. They were dealt a bad hand when it comes to gender identity but part of making themselves whole is dealing with the fact that they cannot expect to engage in competitive sports with the group they biologically identify with. Just as they have to acknowledge they probably will never have children. It sucks, but this is the price they have to pay to make themselves whole without infringing on others.
Veto what? This is not the first time this bill was introduced in the House. IMO it will never pass the Senate.
And if so, it will not make it to Biden’s desk to get a veto.
It’s not up to the rest of us….it’s not up to Rley Gaines and the swimmers who had no choice but to have Will Thomas in their locker room to make all the changes they are being forced to make to accommodate the choices of the few.
It’s a free country…you do you….but the transgendered and the lunatics on the left need to acknowledge that the rest of us…(I saw somewhere we have 1.4 million transgendered people in America…so that leaves roughly 339 million non trans) have our rights too.
If every little boy who wanted to be the princess or play with barbies ended up having their genitalia cut off when they became an adult, then maybe lets tslk about treating children for this.
You are right. Transgenderism aside, the vast majority of us who engage in or have engaged in sports are not good enough to truly compete with the best. That is why there are intermural and co-ed sports leagues, so people with a competitive spirit that exceeds their ability can enjoy the sport and the competition. There would be no reason why a trans-woman could not fulfill their competitive nature in those settings.
I used to play slow-pitch softball in a co-ed league. Nobody would have said boo about a trans-woman (or trans-man) playing on one or all of the teams. Interestingly, one of the women (a real one) who played on my team also played in a women’s league. She told me that all of her teammates were gay and probably 90% of the women in the whole league were gay. She didn’t mention if there were any trans-women playing, but then this was over 40 years ago and that wasn’t a thing back then.
“What is the origin of the phrase “Hobson’s choice”? Allegedly, this arises from a “hostler” (one who rents horses) named “Hobson” who forbad renters from reserving a particular horse. Instead, renters take to accept the next horse available. Hence “Hobson’s choice” means no choice at all.”
If you are male compete as a male, or start your own trans competition, or don’t compete. Having three viable options but not wanting either is not having a Hobson’s choice. It’s being precious.