Lesbian congresswoman says it's 'appalling' to bar trans women from sports teams
Lesbian congresswoman says it's 'appalling' to bar trans women from sports teams
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.
I know trans athletes excelling at their chosen sports is exceptionally rare, but is there already one website that has all the historical and updated statistics that so far show there's no significant statistical trans advantage(transvantage!) that we can see from trans athletes going back decades?
so every time someone says "sure but if you used to be a boy, then the muscle fibers-"
and you can just be like "go to this site".
"here are the numbers".
when I looked up the numbers last year, I had to pop around to many different sites and read different articles, but I imagine somewhere someone must have already pulled all this together.
Can you please provide the link to the website?
That's what I'm looking for.
when I looked before there was just a whole bunch of different websites and I had to find one athlete at a time or one statistic at a time, but there must be some website that has centralized those numbers somewhere.
I was hoping someone here would know.
maybe there isn't one yet.
The way this is phrased seems to imply - at least to me - that the two statements are different. That's what the "previously said" can be used to indicate. But saying it's bad to ban trans people is the same is saying it's bad to not let them play.
I'd prefer it written as " Lesbian congresswoman Angie Craig, who is seeking her fourth term in Congress, has been consistent in saying that it is wrong to discriminate against trans women joining female teams.
“No state should allow discrimination against LGBTQ+ foster children or adoptive parents who can provide a safe and loving home,” she said at the time.
Yes.
What do you think of having two types of teams? One is biological female only. The other is everyone. I'm not sure there's a reason for male-only teams. If you want to participate on the
men'severyone team, go for it.Trans women do not have sporting advantage over cis women, so segregating them from cis women is appealing to bigots and people ignorant of the data at the cost of one of the most vulnerable communities in society.
It is unacceptable.
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.
Your idea is interesting. Can you tell me how it would apply to something like high school basketball? If, when I was in high school, we had a series of teams determined by skill level, we would probably have 12 or 15 teams before any biological females could have participated. But there's no way my high school had the resources to field 12 or 15 teams. Not enough court space, coaching staff, etc. So the practical result would be that nobody with XX genes would have an opportunity to play. Is there something in your line of thought that would help with this type of situation?