#trans sports ban

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By Dave Zirin and Jules Boykoff

U.S. 1500-meter runner Nikki Hiltz, who is nonbinary, will be running for their community in the Olympics, and very much against the grain when one considers the retrograde approach that the transphobic World Athletics, the global governing body for track and field, has taken when it comes to trans participation. In March 2023, it issued new guidelines that, in essence, banned transgender women athletes from participating in World Athletics events.

[sparksandstarsandstories]

So if anyone’s wondering how it’s going in states with trans high school sports bans. In my state there have been two cases in the last month of grown adults starting bullying campaigns against teenage girls they said were trans (neither of them were, btw, surprise surprise)

The kicker? One of these was started by a state school board member

To reiterate: A state school board member started a harassment campaign against a child because… she thought said child didn’t look enough like a girl.

A state school board member. About a child.

But I’m glad we’re protecting girls I guess.

[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

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Erin Reed at Erin In The Morning:

After a record-breaking year for anti-trans legislation, 2025 is shaping up to be even more challenging for transgender and queer people across the United States. A legislative tracker maintained by Erin In The Morning and other volunteers has found that nearly 120 anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ bills have already been filed in states nationwide ahead of the 2025 legislative season. This far surpasses the 80 bills filed by this time in 2023, signaling another historic wave of legal attacks on the ability of transgender people to move, live, and exist freely as themselves in public.

The bulk of the bills so far come from Texas and Missouri, two of the earlier states that release prefilled legislation ahead of the 2025 session. However, states like South Carolina, New Hampshire, Georgia, Wyoming, and Montana all feature multiple anti-LGBTQ+ bills, with more being added every day. Thirteen states in all have seen anti-trans bills filed: Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming.

This year, several state bills aim to strip legal recognition from transgender people entirely. Between 2022 and 2024, ten states passed such legislation or enacted similar policies, with devastating consequences for affected communities. In Kansas, Florida, and Texas, transgender individuals are now unable to update their driver’s licenses, and in some cases, states have begun reverting gender marker changes that were made years or even decades ago. Transgender people who have lived as their legal gender for years may face forced reversion of their identification documents if these new bills are enacted. Similar legislation has already been introduced in Texas, Missouri, South Carolina, and Wyoming.

In many states that have passed such legislation, bathroom bans have also been attached. Indeed, in the initial rush of bills, several bathroom bans can be found that target transgender adults. Two Texas bills would allow lawsuits if transgender people are encountered in bathrooms. One bill in Montana would bar transgender people from publicly owned bathrooms of their gender identity. One bill in Missouri would even make it “unlawful public discrimination” to allow a transgender person in bathrooms of their gender identity.

Book bans are seeing a resurgence in the prefiled bills. In 2024, PEN America found 10,046 instances of individual books banned, affecting 4,231 unique titles. Banned books include the Handmaids Tale, Flamer, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Gender Queer, and more. Texas features several such bills this year, despite the state being rebuked by higher courts for book bans in 2024. Another common type of anti-trans legislation that is common is sports bans. Many bills aim to expand existing restrictions to even broader contexts. In Texas, one proposed bill seeks to deny private sporting events access to the state’s Events Trust Fund—a source of professional funding for major sporting events—if they allow trans athletes to compete. Other bills aim to extend sports bans to new age groups. For instance, a bill in Wyoming would expand its current ban, which applies to students in grade 7 and above, to include kindergarteners.

2025 will be more of the same anti-trans extremist balderdash bills across America, especially in red states. Anti-trans bills range from bathroom bans to forced outing to trans erasure via gender marker change rules.

[socialjusticeinamerica]

Whe you don’t vote Democratic you get Republican hatred and chaos.

[liberaljane]

Anti-Trans Legislation Kills

[Digital illustration of a Black trans women wearing a dress made of words describing anti-trans legislation. Bills included are, “gender-affirming care bans, insurance coverage bans, drag bans, misgendering, uneducated medical professionals, youth sports bans, book bans, dead naming, stigma, and workplace discrimination.’ Text reads, ‘anti-trans legislation kills.’]

[lizardsfromspace]

As TERFs fall deeper down the transphobia hole they eventually loop around to a level of misogyny typically only seen in MRA pick-up manuals. They start out a bit concerned, and five months later they're shouting about how trans women need to be banned from chess bc AFAB brains are just not as smart as AMAB brains. They slide from "women can do anything men can!" to a level of "women are dainty and must be protected"ness that would make a tradwife blogger blush. They've successfully engineered the belief set of a Reddit incel with nothing but a parasocial relationship with JK Rowling, a incoherent urge to Own the Transes and a box of Tweets Xs

[margaretthatchersdead]

Can we please stop acting like intersex people are being caught in the crossfire and not actively targeted? They’re not being misidentified as trans or accidentally hurt, they’re an oppressed group that faces harm because they are intersex. It’s not a case of them getting looped in with trans people, it’s a case of people hating both trans people and intersex people.

[want-to-kilometer]

Transgender Sports Ban HR28 was introduced to the House Floor today. This ban might ban trans people from dancing, darts, and even chess in many universities. It'll also target 9 year olds playing soccer.

Erin Reed does a phenomenal job covering transgender and queer issues nationwide. You can also get live coverage of the hearings at live.house.gov

It takes not even a minute to find your representative on https://ziplook.house.gov and send them an email.

File it under Congress. Ask them to vote against Transgender Sports Ban HR28. One minute to do the smallest act needed to help protect innocent people.

[stotally]

Be for fucking real, under 18s rarely got assigned blockers anyways, and by the time teens do become “eligible” the irreversible effects of puberty have already taken place. You cannot pretend to care to care for children’s health when thousands of trans people take their own lives every year. And we all know that even more anti-transition and more attempts to shut down access to gender affirmative care will follow will be likely to follow.

“Aw yeah, because you know who’s overdue a challenge? The trans community.” - James Acaster

[sky-cow0]

This is the top comment on an Erin Reed article. She needs to call this poster out if she wants to continue doing good work or she will expose herself as having a bias for trans women and make her website unsafe for trans men and trans mascs. Especially since this article is about prohibiting trans healthcare where illegally processing T has much harsher consequences than illegally possessing E.

This isn’t a suffering competition and we need to not fight over “who has it worse” because it doesn’t matter. The moment you add another victim to the “them” category you make it unsafe for them to stand by your side and fight.

We are together in this. And you look like an idiot when you say this in the instance where your example would be kinder to trans women than trans men.

[mr-ladystardust]

took psychology alevel because I wanted to do the gender topic, ended up having to sit through an hour of transphobia from my teacher

[itslookingback]

i'll scream about it more when the guidance has been officially announced not leaked but being trans is going to get so much worse in the uk soon

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Christopher Wiggins at The Advocate:

President Donald Trump is expected to issue more than 200 executive orders on Monday, moments after being sworn back into office. The orders will target transgender rights, diversity initiatives, and other federal policies. According to Fox News, the actions will include sweeping reversals of Biden administration policies and significant measures to fulfill Trump’s campaign promises.

Defining "biological sex"

One of Trump’s first executive orders will require federal agencies to define sex as strictly either male or female. This directive will eliminate recognition of transgender and nonbinary identities at the federal level, barring individuals from updating gender markers on passports and other federal documents that currently allow for “X” gender markers. The Biden administration had allowed such updates, viewing them as critical for equality for nonbinary people.

Eliminating diversity, equity, and inclusion programs

Trump is set to abolish all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives within federal agencies. These programs, implemented under Biden, aimed to address systemic inequities and create more inclusive workplaces. Trump’s administration argues that DEI programs are unnecessary and divisive, according to Fox News. This rollback is expected to disproportionately impact underrepresented groups who have benefited from the programs.

Reinstating the transgender military ban

Trump has promised to reinstate a ban on transgender people serving in the military, reversing Biden’s 2021 policy that allowed transgender Americans to serve openly. Trump originally introduced the exclusive policy during his first term and faced widespread criticism for being discriminatory. Trump has framed this decision as a cost-saving measure, though studies have shown that transgender service members have a negligible impact on military spending. Advocates warn the ban will exclude capable individuals from serving their country.

Banning transgender women in sports

Another executive order is expected to ban transgender women from participating in women’s sports, aligning with Trump’s campaign promises. He has argued this measure ensures fairness in competition despite a lack of evidence supporting widespread advantages for transgender athletes. Advocacy groups have called such a ban harmful and rooted in misinformation. Despite the exceedingly small number of trans athletes who participate in competitive sports, Republicans have made targeting them a priority.

Several of Felon 47’s 200+ tyrannical executive orders will target trans rights (and LGBTQ+ rights more broadly), such as legalizing trans erasure by declaring that the only two federally recognized genders are male and female, ban on trans women in women sports, reinstate the ban on trans military service members, and attacks on gender-affirming care.

Blue states should not obey any of his tyrannical anti-trans EOs!

See Also:

HuffPost: Trump Preparing Executive Order To Declare There Are Only 2 ‘Not Changeable’ Sexes

Erin In The Morning: Trump Promised 200 Executive Orders Day 1: Here Are Some That Could Target Trans People

[enbycrip]

Today I’m going round pages getting triumphant about the fucking disgraceful decision by Sebastian Coe and his band of cowardly reprobates to ban trans women from competing in women’s athletics and asking them why, despite the fact there has, as far as we know, never been a transfemme gold medalist, they think so little of cis women’s capabilities.

They *really* dislike being forced to confront how misogynist their transphobia really is.