#trans sports

[reasonsforhope]

"Arizona’s ban on transgender athletes has been blocked by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which called the 2022 law “the essence of discrimination.”

Supporters of the so-called Save Women’s Sports Act claimed that the law protected girls and women in schools and colleges from “unfair competition.” However, the federal court found that pre-pubescent trans girls and trans girls on puberty blockers have no significant physical advantages over cis girls their own age, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.

“[The law] to ensure competitive fairness and equal athletic opportunities for cisgender female athletes cannot be squared with the fact that the Act bars students from female athletics based entirely on transgender status,” Judge Morgan Christen wrote in the court’s 3-0 decision.

“[The law] permits all students other than transgender women and girls to play on teams consistent with their gender identities,” Christen continued, “transgender women and girls alone are barred from doing so. This is the essence of discrimination.”

Two trans girls, an 11-year-old soccer player and a 15-year-old swimmer and volleyball player on puberty blockers, sued to overturn the law; 18 states signed court arguments in favor of the law, and 17 states signed arguments against it.

A lower federal court also ruled against the law, and the two court rulings against it can now be cited as a legal precedent to help other trans girls play sports. However, Arizona could also appeal the decision to be heard by an 11-judge panel on the appeals court or ask the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on the matter.

“A student’s transgender status is not an accurate proxy for athletic ability and competitive advantage,” said Rachel Berg, a lawyer with the National Center for Lesbian Rights who represented the two girls in court. “Our clients are thrilled to be able to continue to play on girls’ sports teams with their friends while this case proceeds to trial.”"

-via LGBTQ Nation, September 10, 2024

[doomdoomofdoom]

i believe the easiest solution to the 'trans people in competitive sports' ""debate"" is simply to stop separating competitions by sex/gender and start separating them by zodiac sign.

[nyxisart]

Some little things can give you so much euphoria!

[disastergay]

broke: women are at a biological disadvantage to men, which is why the two cannot be trusted to safely compete in sports. testosterone makes men better at sports and estrogen makes women worse at sports

woke: pretty much every single thing recognized as a sport plays to men’s strengths and women’s weaknesses. some types of physical flexibility are valued while others are determined useless, and women are discouraged from taking the spotlight on grounds of spiting their teammates while men are told “if you see an opening, go for it”; the game was rigged from the start

bespoke: we encourage every kid we’ve decided is a girl to become malnourished and beat them into submission when they show an ounce of confidence. we train them separately from the kids we’ve decided are boys, often enforcing completely different, less aggressive tactics than the boys are allowed to use starting as early as elementary school. both groups are implicitly discouraged from collaboration unless absolutely necessary to win. we tell the kids we’ve decided are boys to assert dominance on the field/court/lanes at all costs, that a loss means weeks if not months of deserved shame and maybe even beatings. we slash funding for women’s professional teams, tell them to shut the fuck up when they come forth about facing sexual abuse at the hands of their coaches, and make a good chunk of them wear revealing uniforms under the guise of optimized movements when really it’s just about Male Viewing Pleasure. men are encouraged to risk subsequent concussions on the grounds that, if they lose, they’re all fucking sissies, an empty threat that hangs over their heads like a social death sentence. young boys are taught that if they hit a girl, even in self defense, they’re no better than domestic abusers. young girls are taught that if a boy hits you, you should curl up and cry in hopes that he comes to his senses and stops. it’s not about chromosomes or genitalia or even hormones, all of this is taught. if you think the disparity in men’s and women’s sports comes down to an inherent biological imbalance that sadly can never be rectified, you haven’t been paying attention to jack shit

[gamer2002]

I was born a weak man, due to my relatively light built and a born condition. I still can overpower an average woman.

Denial of biological reality and allowing a biological man with confirmed XY chromosome to compete with women in boxing during the most prestigious once per 4 years (summer) sports championship in the world is evil. What kind of championed rights require a man to beat up women? What is worth this?

Trans movement should denounce this, instead of counting on the pendulum never swinging back. Think again if you want it to happen on preferable conditions or to risk for the pendulum to smash your teeth.

[andresmounts2]

I think it's so interesting that people bring up trans people in sports they ONLY talk about trans women.

What about trans men?

What about nonbinary people?

What about intersex people?

The problem is that they still view trans women as men. They can't wrap their feeble little minds around the fact that gender has, and always will be a construct. And they constantly undermine the fact that a woman could be stronger than a cis man. In nature, every other species acknowledges that women are usually the stronger ones, why can't humans do that?

And if a trans man on T has to compete on a woman's team then what? At that point they usually look like a man, and people in sports have to train so they probably have the strength of a man. Or what about intersex people? They can't be shoved into either box, and they still deserve to play sports if they truly want to.

[roomwithavoid]

trans people in sports/bathrooms

[melissanaughtyworld]

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@Melissanaguty

[rose-rainwater]

Trans Sports and Oppression

Today I overheard two coworkers of mine talking about Trump. One of them was saying something about "men competing against women in sports." Obviously referring to trans women. I ignored what they said and continued walking by trying not to show my emotion. I pass at work and people treat me as a woman so I feel safer than I would I suppose.

Here's the thing. Every cell in my body wanted to speak up and call them out for their ignorance, but I didn't. I didn't want to out myself and potentially make my work environment no longer safe. So I said nothing. I began to think about my own feelings about trans women competing in sports against cis women. I want to get into MMA and have felt this way my whole life. My dad was a martial artist and he instilled that love for martial arts in me, but to compete in women's MMA would mean I would have to at some point hit a woman, which runs counter to my upbringing as a boy and it's so hard to feel like it isn't wrong.

That's when I remembered my high school cross country team. My first day freshman year, I wasn't faster than anyone. I trailed far behind men, women and everyone else. I noticed something. The men WERE IN THE FRONT, but weren't faster. Both men and women were running at the same pace as one another, they just preferred to be separate. There was no biological superiority from the men. They were all just running.

When thinking of fighting professionally, you put yourself as a trans woman in all scenarios.

Lose against a cis woman= take that you imposter I'm glad real women are on top.

Win against a cis woman= well you have a biological advantage so you're just beating up women cause you couldn't win against men.

Lose against a cis man= yeah fuck that t****y up.

Win against a cis man= See! See! Trans women are biologically men, imagine if they let them compete against women.

The only thing that would make these people happy is to see us lose or not be there at all, and I think that's actually awful. It's not about sexes or biology. It's about wanting to see us fail and be ever aware that we don't belong anywhere.

I no doubt have some internalized misogyny and transphobia to unpack, along with the idea that if I joined a gym that a cis woman wouldn't just mop the floor with me because I'm frail and out of shape with no experience.

I don't know how to interact with this topic other than to say that martial arts are for everyone. They can be especially helpful if you want to grow as a person and improve your confidence as well as feeling safer should things get scary. I think robbing anyone of that is just wrong.

Thank you if you read the whole thing. I love you ❤��

[reasonsforhope]

"Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) has vetoed a Republican-led ban on transgender high school athletes, saying that such legislation would needlessly harm the mental well-being of trans youth and make the state less safe for LGBTQ+ people. State Republicans reportedly lack the votes to override his veto.

“This type of legislation, and the harmful rhetoric we get by pursuing it, harms LGBTQ Wisconsinites’ and kids’ mental health, emboldens anti-LGBTQ harassment, bullying, and violence, and threatens the safety and dignity of LGBTQ Wisconsinites, especially our LGBTQ kids,” Evers wrote in his veto message.

“I am vetoing this bill in its entirety because I object to codifying discrimination into state statute and the Wisconsin state legislature’s ongoing efforts to perpetuate hateful and discriminatory rhetoric and policies targeting LGBTQ Wisconsinites including our transgender and gender nonconforming kids…. I will veto any bill that makes Wisconsin a less safe, less inclusive, and less welcoming place for LGBTQ people and kids,” Evers added.

He vetoed the bill in a public ceremony while surrounded by trans advocates, Democratic lawmakers, the mayor of Madison and others, NBC News reported.

The bill would have required public, private, and independent charter schools to designate each team by the gender of its participants, and then require participants to play on teams matching the gender listed on their birth certificates.

The bill would have overruled current policies, established in 2015 by the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association, that allowed trans students to play on sports teams matching their gender identity as long as they provided a personal letter; supporting documentation from parents, teachers, and medical professionals; and proof of any gender-affirming care...

Last September [in 2023], Evers vetoed a Republican-led bill that would’ve banned gender-affirming medical care for minors."

-via LGBTQ Nation, April 2, 2024

[rapeculturerealities]

Biden's Title IX proposal draws criticism in LGBTQ community

Some LGBTQ advocates this week slammed the Biden administration’s proposed revision to Title IX, accusing the president of backtracking on his commitment to protecting transgender young people.

The proposal, released Thursday by the Education Department, would prohibit the adoption of policies that “categorically” ban transgender athletes from school sports teams consistent with their gender identity, rebuking broad bans that have been implemented by 20 states, and counting.

But K-12 schools under the administration’s proposal would still have the leeway to limit transgender athletes’ participation in sports if they determine that including them will undermine competitive fairness or increase the risk of sports-related injuries, a senior Education Department official said Thursday.

“The proposed regulation would give schools flexibility to identify their own important educational objectives,” rather than adopt a one-size-fits-all approach, the official said on a call with reporters.

LGBTQ Americans and their allies have had mixed reactions to the administration’s proposed changes. While some are celebrating the possibility of a new federal civil rights law prohibiting laws that bar transgender students from participating in school sports, others say the proposal is a disappointing departure from prior actions and statements made by the Biden White House in support of equal rights for transgender people.

“State lawmakers take note — discriminating against transgender athletes is wrong and a violation of federal law. This new rule makes that abundantly clear,” said Kelley Robinson, President of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ advocacy group.

Robinson added, however, that the new rule should be updated to clarify that “all transgender students should be presumed eligible to participate in sports consistent with their gender identity.”

“The Biden Administration framed their proposal as a ban on blanket discrimination against trans athletes. But actually it provides guidelines for how schools and universities can ban trans athletes legally,” Imara Jones, the founder and chief executive of TransLash Media, said Friday.

“It’s hard to have a ‘middle ground’ when it comes [to] supporting human rights for trans people, and I can’t see how Joe Biden can straddle the fence here,” she said.

[radfemforwomensrights]

This is fantastic. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Social commentary on the state of women’s sports right now. That last line is gold. 🤭😂

Spread this.

[allthegeopolitics]

A football team consisting of all transgender men has debuted in a regional league in Spain, becoming the first to achieve federated status in Europe. Fenix FC, named after the mythical phoenix which symbolises rebirth, competes in the fifth tier in the northwestern region of Catalonia after being incorporated into a local club in Barcelona. Despite their first game last month ending in a 19-0 defeat, Fenix FC are making history by being an all-trans squad.

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[queertranshappiness]

We don't see enough positivity for gender diverse people in sport, so here's some for tonight:

Trans people deserve to enjoy, compete in, and excel in their own ways in sport. We do martial arts ourselves, they have improved our mental health dramatically, and helped us make new friends (quite a few of whom are queer, too). Everyone deserves that chance, no matter who they are. Sport should be an inclusive and safe environment for everyone, no matter what.

(If you're a queer person interested in sport, a good place to start would be to search up queer inclusive [sport you want to try] team [your city/state] into google, and see what comes up. Don't be afraid to try something new, you don't know what it might become, in a very good way.)

[frankiefrankiefrankies]

THANK GOD!

This December a trans teen girl won the regional championship and it caused quite a stir. Especially because it was the region in which I used to dance and compete so quite a few people I knew showed their whole ass. I guess the upside is I now know who the transphobes are.

Anyway, the whole thing was a steaming pile of bullshit because the veil behind which the “protect girls in sports” crowd hide is even thinner. Dancers are only separated by gender in ��majors” so in local comps they are only split by age and level. And dancing in the girls category puts you at a severe statistical disadvantage. Girls age groups in my region usually had around 90 dancers, boys had like 9 and would get handed a world qualifying placement by showing up.

Would love to see the mental gymnastics of these folks saw a trans boy win. “That’s an unfair advantage dancing in the smaller boy groups!” “But you just said that AMAB dancers have an advantage over AFAB?”

[thedawnofcrime]

To the gender criticals out there, know that when we say “let trans people in sports”, we are not suggesting that we should end the conversation at that. We are suggesting that with the topic of trans people in sports, y’all are not going in the right direction.

You cannot identify womanhood by any given trait or feature, besides the fact that somebody feels like a woman. That is what makes them feel comfortable in society and their bodies.

Not all cis women have uteruses. Not all cis women produce estrogen. Not all cis women have breasts. Not all cis women even have XX chromosomes.

These women are biologically female, and their womanhood should not be defined by arbitrary traits that you assign them. Besides, to imply that they are worthy of womanhood, and trans women are not, is hypocritical.

Gender isn’t just a social construct, it’s the way our brains perceive ourselves and our role in society from birth. You cannot be critical of things that are not subjective concepts. That is called ignorance.

The issue with trans people in sports (and I know there is one) is not that they’re a danger to sports, it’s that the system we compete based on is outdated, and biased towards a very stereotypical type of man and woman.

The solution is not banning a minority from something built for enjoyment, the solution is to abolish the system that they, along with many people outside of the minority, do not fit into.

There is no one-size-fits-all for sports separation, and different sports can be separated in different ways. If your system is built to regulate womanhood, it is not a system of protection, it is a system to oppression. We are all humans, and every day the excuses of “gender ideology” and “gender confusion” become more and more absurd.

Think for yourself. If you were born with something that made you different than other men or women, would you really be okay with everybody excluding you? From children’s soccer teams? From high school basketball practices? From putting in the years of effort to compete in the Olympics? All because you were born “imperfect” by their standards.

This isn’t something I’m willing debate. If you disagree with including minorities in sports, or allowing intersex people to compete, you need to do some long, individual reflection on why you care so much about how limited of a human experience a minority should have. Don’t try to reword yourself into the hero. Use some critical thinking.