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maybe the problem with trans kids playing sports isn't that they might have an advantage (they don't), but that we as a society put so much value in being the better than other at something that should be about fun and play at least for children.
The "solution" for school sports is to make all sports coed. Even individual sports like running can be made coed by, for example. relay races. Sports like baseball can be done coed by using the old-school method of having team captains take turns picking players for their teams from among all kids in a coed class.
Really, is this the most important trans issue people can come up with?
@Pat this would be a great idea, plus we could include disabled people
On second thought... The idea of team captains picking players kind of sets up a meta-competition among individuals to see who gets picked first. Probably best to have team members picked randomly.
@louiscouture really? No advantage at all?
At this point I can't tell if people are just being sarcastic or not. Like, I can understand being frustrated that trans kids aren't being allowed to participate in highschool sports (at a non-professional level) in which, as you said, it should be about having fun. But if you're participating in it at pro-level and making lots of $$$ then I think it's more than appropriate to figure out if a person has an unfair advantage, and I think in the case of , let's say a biological male who is a woman participating with mostly biological females then that would be an advantage and thus unfair for the other biological females in that sport.
If these distinctions didn't make any difference we would not have segregated sports into male/female dominated categories and they would perform similarly at a professional level. I. E we'd have females that can run as fast as Usain Bolt...
Btw I don't mean to come across as mean spirited transphobe... Happy to take notes and learn but I'd have to see some kind of logical explanation.
@zpartacoos from what I’ve heard it’s because hormonal therapy reduce your strength
on another note, caitlyn jenner is trash. She should not be viewed as a trans model, she is portraying trans people in a bad way, especially when she supports trans bans in school sports.