Hello everyone,
I’m interested in gathering thoughts and perspectives, particularly from the trans community, regarding trans women’s participation in women’s sports. This is a topic that often sparks debate, and I want to understand the various viewpoints better.
My question is: What are your opinions on biologically male trans individuals competing in women’s sports? Do you think there should be separate categories for trans athletes, or should they compete in accordance with their gender identity? I am looking for thoughtful, respectful discussions, as my intention is not to discriminate but to understand the complexities of this issue better.
Thank you for sharing your insights!
An equal but separate division?
Sounds good on paper, but you’ve essentially just banned them from all sports. Most schools won’t have enough trans students to form a whole team, and that’s even if they all enjoy the same sport! If by some chance you do get them all to team up, can you do that with all of the neighboring schools? They will need teams to play against.
This is a horrible, prejudiced idea.
People said the same thing about female athletes when the idea of girls’ sports was first considered.
But women make up ~50% of the population and always did. Trans women do not and will never approach those %s.
If every single trans woman high school student suddenly wanted to play the same sport, there would still be schools with 0-1 trans women competing.
You are talking about what is visible on the surface right now.
When the idea of girls’ sports teams was first considered, men didn’t think of girls as wanting to play sports either; sports were for men/boys. There were people making the same argument as you “there aren’t enough girls interested in sports to form a team” etc.
Just because you only know a very small number of trans people doesn’t mean there aren’t more, and doesn’t mean there won’t be even more in the future.
Mmmkay. My high school class was around 100 people, say 50 were assigned male at birth. It would take 20% of them being trans to put together a bare minimum size softball team of trans women, and that every single one of those 9-10 trans women would want to play softball. It would take 25% for a full roster volleyball team. 10% for a bowling team. It would require the level of these students’ interest in sports to be a statistical anomaly.
In the most generous of estimates, has anyone anywhere thought that a full quarter of people are trans? And that they would have a higher-than-average interest in sports? It’s ludicrous. But tell you what, if we ever hit 25% of the population being trans and every one of them is an athlete, I’ll eat my words.
I can only conclude that you are being intentionally disingenuous.
You’re arguing rates of trans women playing sports will reach levels comparable to AFAB women playing sports. Which effectively means everyone or nearly everyone identifying as a man today would have to come out as a trans woman. It’s ludicrous. Who’s being disingenuous?