Re: 99% of girls teams in America won’t even

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Apr 13, 2021, 8:50 AM

I don't defend my whacked out political party. We have great ideals but rather lousy policy adoption.

Here, I will leave you with a quote from our failed governor's bid:

"It is one of our most sincere convictions that you have a right to live your own life as you see fit, so long as you don’t stand in the way of others doing likewise. To put it simply; Be as liberal as you want to be. Be as conservative as you want to be. Whatever you choose, don’t try to force others to be like you." - DiFliore

You see where I am coming from?

The issue at hand is that places are specifically banning a specific type of person from pursuing an endeavor and that is explicitly government overreach.

The last time I check, transgender athletes are 1 -extremely rare so the point of 99% wont notice, is more like 99.9% Two, transgender have no competitive advantage after transitioning. So for the college athletes, this is almost a non-issue. You don't have a "man" competing on a wonens team, you have a woman competing on a womans team. In addition, natural females can actually still produce more natural testosterone than some natural males and since it is a spectrum range with male/female sports things can and do fall to born natural talents beyond political labels. Thus I don't see folks complaining if a transgender man is playing on a biological male team either. But the issue at hand isn't where transgender exists in sports - it is whether or not government need to intervene.

Now, the biggest issue for me is more at the HS level as there are other inequalities that exist. As I said, there is no advantage post transition. Thus it becomes a question of when that transition happens and the resources to make that transition happen. There is natural inequity there and nor does a HS student have sufficient facilities to make that long-term decision. However, you can't ban someone from sports.

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Since any transgender authority will tell you, as expressed clearly in the former Obama "dear colleague" letter, gender identity requires nothing more than a declaration that one identifies as something else. No doctor's note, medical treatment like hormone therapy, let alone actual surgery! Further, there's no need to dress the part or adopt any specific traits commonly associate with your new gender identity.

In an age where under-15 boys soccer teams are beating the Women's National Team (see USA, Australia), I wonder how long it will be before some guy not-quite-good-enough to play a men's sport (golf team, tennis team, soccer team, ...) will just shamelessly declare that he now identifies as a woman an demands to be allowed to play on the women's team. No one is allowed to dare to question his "identity" even if to all outward aspect he acts like a man, doesn't have hormone treatment, doesn't have surgery. Heck, with gender fluidity, he might even be able to just say "I feel like a woman when I play my sport".

When will some unscrupulous coach just load up his (or her) team with as many such young men, err...young "women" as he (or she) can get to put up the charade? Might we someday soon see a women's final four championship go to a team with no biological women? Image a 7' 1" man-who-identifies-as-a-woman playing basketball in a women's league?

Meanwhile, I don't ever foresee a future where transgender men will ever occupy any position on men's teams, except maybe as a Vanderbilt place kicker. But they're fully welcome to try our for the team and if they have the skills and capabilities, I'll cheer for them if they're on the team I'm rooting for.

NCAA to pull events from States

Re: NCAA to pull events from States

Oh the irony ....

99% of girls teams in America won’t even