Trans eligibility rules for girls sports.

I’ll put the hyperbole aside and give all of you a reminder about why I am doing this.

There are a few people here who absolutely, positively refuse to treat trans children with even the slightest amount of dignity and respect. I’m not talking about merely disagreeing with ECNL down to AYSO allowing trans girls to play soccer. I’m talking about people who mock gender pronouns, refer to certain lesbian women and men, who call children “trannies” and worse, and accuse them of engaging in lewd behavior in bathrooms. These are people who have zero empathy for trans children who are actual people and the sons and daughters of actual parents. If they can’t treat children with dignity and respect, I won’t treat theirs with dignity and respect either. Slobodan in particular can have a turn feeling how trans children and their parents feel when they hear the garbage that people like him spew.

I also think it’s important for people like him to understand in no uncertain terms that people who support the LGBT community no longer fear the bullying anti-trans schtick that he grew up dumping on everyone around him. Not only do we no longer fear it, but we also don’t stay quiet or go away quietly in response to your elementary school playground bullying. You wanted bullying, you got it.

I know Grace disagrees with me and would prefer the old way of trying to politely convince people to think differently. I admire her doggedness in putting up with the constant bullying of her that drove off others in disgust, but


So mocking gender pronouns and calling lesbians men constitutes “middle ground”? That is what makes you a bigot, not the mere fact that you oppose trans participation in sports. So too does your absolute refusal to consider the reasons why transgender children believe it is important to allow them to play consistent with their gender identity to be legitimate positions to weigh into the decision, and despite the fact that virtually every private youth league from ECNL down to AYSO agrees with them, as does CIF.

You have made it very clear that trans girls and women should not be allowed to play competitive sports with their gender identity at any age group, in any sport, and under any circumstances. That is absolutist, no matter how much you try to retroactively label yourself as someone willing to compromise. And no, your theory that trans people can do whatever they want so long as it isn’t anything you don’t want them to do is not compromise.

Get used to the compromise that already exists, and had existed for decades. It is virtually impossible for trans women to participate at the pro level. It is very difficult at the NCAA level, and when something shows the requirements are out of whack, they are thoughtfully reconsidered. And at the youth level, you can vote for or against trans hate in your state if winning a kiddie trophy is that important to you. But even if you vote for hate, you still can’t stop a private company from deciding to allow trans kids from participating, no matter how much you hate the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

I've read enough of your shit, and your alter ego's shit, to know you're a fucking douche bag 24/7. All you need is a topic.
 
Hold on. I got to whip out my little authoritarian translator because I'm having trouble dissecting the crazy:

"Yeah I get that I'm being a bigot....I'm being a bigot not because I in fact am bigot, but because I'm unhinged and somewhat hysterical and trying to make you angry. I'm so unhinged I've done this deliberately 9 times".

Quite a box you've built for yourself there. You are either an admitted bigot (which you've just clearly stated), or you are so hysterical (after accusing me of being unhinged) that you have deliberately painted yourself as an admitted bigot to "own" me. Wow. Winning.

You are unhinged. You also like to hear yourself talk. Please... type me another, short story.

In your honor, I'm going to start using the pronouns "tranny" and "birthing person".
 
You are unhinged. You also like to hear yourself talk. Please... type me another, short story.

In your honor, I'm going to start using the pronouns "tranny" and "birthing person".

Thank you for making it perfectly clear why trans participation in youth sports is so important.
 
You are unhinged. You also like to hear yourself talk. Please... type me another, short story.

In your honor, I'm going to start using the pronouns "tranny" and "birthing person".
Awww....I'm honored SOTL. Ura!

You see the secret theory that always goes around is that the people who become most unhinged, the most hateful about this stuff is because they see a little bit of themselves in what they despise. Would explain the entire man trying to make himself out as defending women, but then engages in misogyny thing. So those pronouns might very well be appropriate in your case. You don't have a Matt Walsh beard do you????
 
But that's not the point. I get what you're saying, but you're nonchalant because it's just scratching the surface. Wait until it becomes common. Wait until biological males take opportunities away from real females. There's a reason we've had separate leagues, isn't there? How do you justify "sharpen the steel" as if the need for 2 leagues was just some random consideration that wasn't ever necessary? The best female players, that wanted to challenge themselves every day, got their asses kicked by a bunch of 15-year old boys. There's a reason for that. We have different clothes. Different bathrooms and locker rooms. Different medical care. Different 'traditional' professions. This need to accommodate everyone is fine... but at some point you say "fuck no, we're not going to stop calling it Mother's Day because some man that wants to breastfeed is offended." That's ridiculous.
I'm nonchalant because its extremely unlikely to become "common". As best I can tell, 0.6% of the population identifies as trans. That's way less than 1 player per team out of 18 players. If the number increases by a factor of 10, then you get 1 player per team, on average. That seems very unlikely to me as they would all, on mass, have to play soccer ... to even get to the 1 per team number.

It seems to me to be a typical culture wars, storm in a teacup, appeal to emotion type issue that our pols love as it distracts people from their collective incompetence, but that's just me.
 
Compromise has been tried on this thread.

It doesn’t work. If anyone proposes a system which actually preserves the top tier of women’s sports for women, they get called transphobe. It doesn’t matter what kind of athletic system for trans kids is suggested. If you don’t support an XY athlete receiving top honors in the women’s division, then you must be a bigot.

The pattern kills any desire to find a middle ground. Eventually, anyone who cares about both sets of kids leaves.
There's an inconsistency in your reply, namely there is a direct conflict between
If anyone proposes a system which actually preserves the top tier of women’s sports for women

and the term "compromise", i.e. preserving the status quo isn't compromise.
 
There's an inconsistency in your reply, namely there is a direct conflict between


and the term "compromise", i.e. preserving the status quo isn't compromise.
Status quo is to allow all trans XY athletes in girls events, but hope none of the competent ones actually do it. I don’t support that policy.

The best idea for a compromise so far is to create divisions and leagues for high skill trans kids, but preserve girls leagues for girls. That idea I like.

If you don’t like it, then state your idea for a compromise. Remember that a youth league really should not require a medical procedure. So, if you admit trans kids on hormone suppressants, then you also admit trans kids whose transition is purely social.
 
I'm nonchalant because its extremely unlikely to become "common". As best I can tell, 0.6% of the population identifies as trans. That's way less than 1 player per team out of 18 players. If the number increases by a factor of 10, then you get 1 player per team, on average. That seems very unlikely to me as they would all, on mass, have to play soccer ... to even get to the 1 per team number.

It seems to me to be a typical culture wars, storm in a teacup, appeal to emotion type issue that our pols love as it distracts people from their collective incompetence, but that's just me.
My goodness, this perspective is naive. People will "identify" in ways that are advantageous - opportunity and incentive will drive behavior as it has from the beginning of human existence. BTW - BS assumptions + math = BS. Always.


 
This is a perfect example of why people have strong positions…is this correct, virtue signaling, or out of control? What message is this sending? Seriously, and how is this not at the expense of Biological Women…If there is a FTM that has won a Man of the Year Award, I have not seen it.

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BTW…the Her-She jokes are all over Social Media…you can’t make this stuff up.

Does anybody really think this moves the needle to acceptance or does it make us look foolish? Serious Question.
 
Status quo is to allow all trans XY athletes in girls events, but hope none of the competent ones actually do it. I don’t support that policy.

The best idea for a compromise so far is to create divisions and leagues for high skill trans kids, but preserve girls leagues for girls. That idea I like.

If you don’t like it, then state your idea for a compromise. Remember that a youth league really should not require a medical procedure. So, if you admit trans kids on hormone suppressants, then you also admit trans kids whose transition is purely social.
Not the status quo. Most of them require balancing. Some may require better balancing if balancing is shown to be ineffective (the test being a mediocre athlete in the ms should not be the best athlete in the fs). For some it may be impossible, hence separate leagues may be necessary.

Compromise is easy: on the youth level, let them play (we don't go after the cheats). on the collegiate level, where we test, balance....if a balance is shown to be impossible, then separate leagues....separate leagues most likely in the running/jumping events and least likely in the teams even where numbers and the incremental contribution of 1 athlete makes it unnecessary except for certain hard cases like basketball and crew. On the pro and national team level, use the strictist scrutiny. Legally, Williams v Kincaid: don't treat either party's right as absolute but balance them against each other, because it should be treated as a disability.
 
I'm nonchalant because its extremely unlikely to become "common". As best I can tell, 0.6% of the population identifies as trans. That's way less than 1 player per team out of 18 players. If the number increases by a factor of 10, then you get 1 player per team, on average. That seems very unlikely to me as they would all, on mass, have to play soccer ... to even get to the 1 per team number.

It seems to me to be a typical culture wars, storm in a teacup, appeal to emotion type issue that our pols love as it distracts people from their collective incompetence, but that's just me.
1 too many, moo
 
My goodness, this perspective is naive. People will "identify" in ways that are advantageous - opportunity and incentive will drive behavior as it has from the beginning of human existence. BTW - BS assumptions + math = BS. Always.


Here I disagree. If there are protocols in place you have to calculate the cost and even a few months on hormones is enough to render you sterile and nonfunctioning and/or both. If you believe men are obsessed with a certain part of their anatomy, it's a hard price to pay for a trophy.

Now the counter to this is well what about the youth level....didn't you say youth should be allowed to compete without restriction? Yes, because we don't want to encourage them to transition early. That's a good argument, however, for steroid testing if you really believe this. If so you must believe steroid usage is particularly high where we don't test, at least among the boys who have a lower price to pay than the girls.
 
This is a perfect example of why people have strong positions…is this correct, virtue signaling, or out of control? What message is this sending? Seriously, and how is this not at the expense of Biological Women…If there is a FTM that has won a Man of the Year Award, I have not seen it.

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Just like FJB wife said, the girls need to step up their game and that includes the girls bathroom at school and the locker room in NCAA swimming.
 
Here I disagree. If there are protocols in place you have to calculate the cost and even a few months on hormones is enough to render you sterile and nonfunctioning and/or both. If you believe men are obsessed with a certain part of their anatomy, it's a hard price to pay for a trophy.

Now the counter to this is well what about the youth level....didn't you say youth should be allowed to compete without restriction? Yes, because we don't want to encourage them to transition early. That's a good argument, however, for steroid testing if you really believe this. If so you must believe steroid usage is particularly high where we don't test, at least among the boys who have a lower price to pay than the girls.
You misinterpret what was said about socially transitioned versus medically transitioned youth athletes. Many people have agreed that the two groups should be teated the same. But this does not necessarily mean “youth should be allowed to compete without restriction”. It could also mean “everyone stays with birth gender”, or “create a new division for trans kids”.

You want us to trust “protocols in place”? Lia Thomas did a great job of showing that female athletes can’t trust standards bodies to put “protocols in place“. We tried that, and they failed miserably. Create a separate division if you like, but don’t tell me that your new and improved testosterone reduction will work any differently than the old one.
 
My goodness, this perspective is naive. People will "identify" in ways that are advantageous - opportunity and incentive will drive behavior as it has from the beginning of human existence. BTW - BS assumptions + math = BS. Always.


So we're going to get "large" numbers of teenage boys identifying as trans in their daily life through high school and then on into college so that they can play sports and be better than cis girls, is that your premise? I don't see that.

BTW, where did I make assumptions in my math? 0.6% is a lot less than 1 player in 18 (as a %), 10 times that is about 1 player in 18 (as a %). There are no assumptions there.
 
You misinterpret what was said about socially transitioned versus medically transitioned youth athletes. Many people have agreed that the two groups should be teated the same. But this does not necessarily mean “youth should be allowed to compete without restriction”. It could also mean “everyone stays with birth gender”, or “create a new division for trans kids”.

You want us to trust “protocols in place”? Lia Thomas did a great job of showing that female athletes can’t trust standards bodies to put “protocols in place“. We tried that, and they failed miserably. Create a separate division if you like, but don’t tell me that your new and improved testosterone reduction will work any differently than the old one.
That's science buddy. Sometimes it doesn't work the first time. Trial and error, learn from the error. What doesn't work for swimming (which is decided by fractions of a second) doesn't necessarily not work for soccer (where the player is 1/11). That, not "trust Fauci", is how real science works. And it's a process we have to go through that cannot be rushed. It must be studied carefully with each permutation.

The problem with "create a new division for trans kids" is for team sports there is insufficient mass. With the exception of the aggregator sports (swim/track) and certain one off which are just hard cases (basketball, crew), it shouldn't make too much of a difference. If it did make a difference, my son's middle school team would be top of their division, but they aren't, because two highly regarded letter league athletes, both of whom are in the lower age range for their year and therefore among the oldest/tallest in middle school, even ones in two of the top marquee positions, simply aren't enough to lift a team consisting entirely of bronze, AYSO and rec players to the division championships.
 
Awww....I'm honored SOTL. Ura!

You see the secret theory that always goes around is that the people who become most unhinged, the most hateful about this stuff is because they see a little bit of themselves in what they despise. Would explain the entire man trying to make himself out as defending women, but then engages in misogyny thing. So those pronouns might very well be appropriate in your case. You don't have a Matt Walsh beard do you????

Guys like Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro and Charlie Kirk are all very articulate and knowledgeable. They also like to make fun of how far the democrats have fallen over the edge in attempting to scale the higher ground.
 
I'm nonchalant because its extremely unlikely to become "common". As best I can tell, 0.6% of the population identifies as trans. That's way less than 1 player per team out of 18 players. If the number increases by a factor of 10, then you get 1 player per team, on average. That seems very unlikely to me as they would all, on mass, have to play soccer ... to even get to the 1 per team number.

It seems to me to be a typical culture wars, storm in a teacup, appeal to emotion type issue that our pols love as it distracts people from their collective incompetence, but that's just me.

I think you're right from the viewpoint a legitimate trans person will participate in this on a very small scale, but the world is full of people looking for attention and that's what will become common. The longer we tolerate the insanity, the more insanity we will see.
 
This is a perfect example of why people have strong positions…is this correct, virtue signaling, or out of control? What message is this sending? Seriously, and how is this not at the expense of Biological Women…If there is a FTM that has won a Man of the Year Award, I have not seen it.

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BTW…the Her-She jokes are all over Social Media…you can’t make this stuff up.

Does anybody really think this moves the needle to acceptance or does it make us look foolish? Serious Question.

Foolish... to the point of moronic, pathetic and pandering. They aren't females or women.
 
Guys like Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro and Charlie Kirk are all very articulate and knowledgeable. They also like to make fun of how far the democrats have fallen over the edge in attempting to scale the higher ground.
Charlie Kirk (who BTW I know....we used to be neighbors) and Ben Shapiro (who I've had the good fortune of meeting a few times), have a very different take on this than either Matt Walsh or Michael Knowles. It's hard to tell if Walsh/Knowles are just clickbaiting to cash in on the $$$$, given how their particular contracts are rumored to be structure based on the Crowder disclosures, BUT they have engaged in quite a bit of ugliness that is very much over the line and has brought some condemnation from the moderates like me. It's the distinction between you and dad4 v. someone like woobie or kicking or kicker here. Oh, and before anyone brings it up, crush is Jordan Peterson in this scenario.
 
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