Will this be known as Biden's tuck rule?
These are my favorite kinds of posts because they perfectly explain why it is so important to allow transgender participants. It’s also fun that so many of y’all spend so much time “researching” how biological males are athletically superior to biological females, because that analysis is irrelevant to why youth sports bodies allow transgender participation in the first place.
You think it is “unfair” to let biological boys compete against biological girls. But do you know what is “unfair”, and what is the actual and appropriate fairness analysis that these federations are conducting to determine whether (and the extent to which) transgender girls may compete? They are looking at how unfair it is that people treat transgender people like s**t their entire lives. How it is unfair to mock them because you think it is fun. How it’s unfair to exclude them from bathrooms based on irrational fears that they will assault their peers. How it is unfair that people falsely accuse them of putting the health and safety of others at risk when it has apparently never happened once in history while, in contrast, transgender teens are often assaulted and sometimes beaten to death. How it is unfair that people like all of you see the abysmal harassing behavior that they endure over and over again in life - and this thread - but just ignore it because you don’t care how poorly others treat people who are transgender. All you care about is the fake problem that someone might get hurt if a governing body fails to implement reasonable protections, and soothing the fragile egos of slow snowflake Karens in CT so they can keep up the fantasy that they aren’t actually as slow as they are because they should have gotten eighth in a race no one cares about instead of ninth.
These regulating bodies have decided it is not fair to continue letting society treat transgender youth like s**t, and that whether privileged snowflake Karen loses a race is inconsequential in comparison. You’ve decided it isn’t fair for girls to lose to transgender athletes in a race because you think your kids are so emotionally soft that they can’t handle not getting a ribbon because they lost a race to someone they know is a biological male. Odds are, however, that they understand what trans girls go through in life and realize that is a much bigger hardship than having to go through life knowing you would have come in 8th instead of 9th back when you were 18.
You all think youth sports is about winning and losing, when it is about making better people. And based on many of the posts here, we have a lot of work still to do.