Lesbian congresswoman Angie Craig, who is seeking her fourth term in Congress, previously said it’s “appalling” not to let trans women join female teams.
Gender segregated sports are not the answer long term. Women’s teams are already treated like second class citizens even in sports where there is little biological advantage between the bimodal sex expressions of male and female.
The best solution I have seen is treating sports like weight classes in boxing, based on whatever advantage criteria there is for that sport. This may still act as a gender segregator in practice, but it allows anyone to compete at the level they are able without questioning their gender identity or sex characteristics.
Oh, I’m not really interested in arguing the minutia of implementation here, just presenting an alternative approach. You can find out more in this video from Mia Mulder if you’d like!
So I listened to the entire video. The person in the video could have started with a 3 minute outline because that was about all the meaningful content. That said, I did listen to the entire thing. And the kicker was right at the end. If there was someone who was genetically male, born male, and made the personal decision to present as female … and that person wanted to play high school basketball and was way better than all the girls, the person in the video would have them “move up” to the next level. The next level is the boys team. Which is exactly what I started with in my argument above. The only problem we come to is it is really hard to define who is the “best” at basketball and so it’ll always be a subjective opinion. This may be a problem if the person in question is way better than the girls but not very good compared to the members of the boys team. Why move up when you’ll only sit the bench? Better argue discrimination and a failure to accommodate. The problem isn’t solved at all.
Gender segregated sports are not the answer long term. Women’s teams are already treated like second class citizens even in sports where there is little biological advantage between the bimodal sex expressions of male and female.
The best solution I have seen is treating sports like weight classes in boxing, based on whatever advantage criteria there is for that sport. This may still act as a gender segregator in practice, but it allows anyone to compete at the level they are able without questioning their gender identity or sex characteristics.
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Oh, I’m not really interested in arguing the minutia of implementation here, just presenting an alternative approach. You can find out more in this video from Mia Mulder if you’d like!
So I listened to the entire video. The person in the video could have started with a 3 minute outline because that was about all the meaningful content. That said, I did listen to the entire thing. And the kicker was right at the end. If there was someone who was genetically male, born male, and made the personal decision to present as female … and that person wanted to play high school basketball and was way better than all the girls, the person in the video would have them “move up” to the next level. The next level is the boys team. Which is exactly what I started with in my argument above. The only problem we come to is it is really hard to define who is the “best” at basketball and so it’ll always be a subjective opinion. This may be a problem if the person in question is way better than the girls but not very good compared to the members of the boys team. Why move up when you’ll only sit the bench? Better argue discrimination and a failure to accommodate. The problem isn’t solved at all.