It’s not “kids” it’s BOYS
If only this discussion could get out of the baby talk stage. Let trans girls play sports!! Yes thank you nobody is trying to stop them.
A controversial bill to ban transgender girls from playing girls sports in school has passed a key committee, signaling it’s on its way to becoming law.
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Last week, lawmakers heard hours of testimony from individuals on both sides of the bill. There are supporters of the bill, who are concerned what impact the participation of transgender girls may have on girls’ sports. They say transgender girls may have unfair physical advantages that would make it harder to cisgender girls to secure a spot or compete on an even playing field.
Of course they do, at least if we’re talking about post-puberty boys. This is part of the baby talk: pretending we all have no clue that males have physical advantages over females.
Those opposing the bill, though, say transgender kids should have the same opportunities to compete and play that their cisgender peers enjoy. And, they say, there are already transgender kids playing school sports.
They would still have those same opportunities. Stop with the baby talk. And the issue isn’t “transgender kids” it’s boys. And if boys are already cheating by competing against girls then that’s a bad thing and unfair to the girls.
Transgender kids don’t pose a threat to girls’ sports, say advocates for the LGBTQ community.
Then they’re lying. Boys do pose a threat to girls’ sports once they’re past puberty. Everybody knows this. Journalists keep hiding it with this baby talk about “kids” instead of “boys.”
The ACLU of Indiana has said it will oppose the bill in the courts, should it be signed into law.
The ACLU of Indiana is all over it. It’s not a civil liberty for boys to play on girls’ teams.
Then:
Don’t worry they say. It’s only one trans women athlete. Two at the most. Certainly no more than a handful. Look, they’re not even that good, it’s not like they’re winning at the olympics.
Now:
How dare you remove opportunities for mediocre male athletes to win fame, glory, validation, and scholarships by claiming they have an advantage over women. Look, there are already trans women competing, so what’s the big deal.
Unlike the medical stuff I have a hard time imagining the negative side effects of these sorts of bills. Having not read the actual text I’m less sure, but it’s unlikely to be as bad as the CRT bills
I’ve read two or three of the bills to maintain sex segregation in school sports. As I recall, they were decent bills, with solid fact-based arguments. I haven’t looked for this particular one yet, but these bills tend to be copies of each other.
Has anyone considered that these boys need to make a choice between HRT and athletics, if they reduce their abillity to compete with other boys?
There needs to be some responsbility taken here by the males rather than just, again, dump on the girls.
Yesterday I received an email from Dramatist’s Guild; they are accepting entries for their diversity festival. The plays have to be about trans rights. I could write a play about trans ‘rights’ (in fact, I’ve already written two), but I would almost certainly be banned from the Guild forever. This is the problem; take a principled stand, and a field you are trying to break into becomes closed. Trans ‘rights’ trump the right of ‘TERFs’ and ‘Karens’ to enter a field that is reeking of trans rights, and if you write about anything else, you could be ignored or vilified.
Last night I went to a play in town, a pleasant night out. Until I read the program where two of the bios used ‘they’ to refer to a single person, both female, with female names, and both obviously female. It didn’t quite ruin the play for me, but I did find myself staring too much at the ‘non-binary’ girl who was in the cast wondering what made her a ‘they’. She wasn’t large enough to be two or more people; she was actually smaller than almost anyone else on the stage.
Michael@4
Good point. I suspect that the number of boys who choose to claim to be girls would diminish if they had to continue to compete against boys.
Nit: the hormone treatments these boys might receive is not “replacement”; it’s not replacing lost hormones. It just uses (and increases the demand for) the same drugs used for HRT by menopausal women. (It’s questionable whether it can be called “therapy”, as well.)