Youth sports have a significant impact on the development of all children. Sports provide children opportunities to build their social skills and confidence, as well as improve their sense of belonging and physical fitness.
What happens to these spaces when adults are given permission to inspect a child’s body to determine their gender?
The Supreme Court rulings on Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. decided that transgender girls cannot play sports that align with their gender identity. Not only does this ruling essentially prohibit transgender kids from participating in most youth sports – codifying the exclusion this vulnerable population already experiences – it also puts all children at risk of the harmful consequences of body surveillance.
Yep, women are already enduring ridiculous scrutiny under thinly veiled transphobia they’re calling “protection.” Imane Khelif is a great example of how this is affecting women’s ability to play professional sports.
Wouldn’t she still be able to compete in the men’s leagues?
Did you miss the part where she’s a woman?
That classification isn’t as clear cut as what you might have learned as a child
Oh, have you taken biology in university, too? Don’t talk down to me when you didn’t even read the entire article. The tests they supposedly used to verify her chromosomes were made up.
Do you believe there are 2 genders and nothing in between?
No, but that has nothing to do with this boxer. If anything, her experience reinforces the headline of the article I posted.
The fact there’s more than just 2 genders has nothing to do with this boxer??
Did. You. Read. The. Wiki? She’s a woman.
Transphobes truly are the dumbest people on the planet.
As a woman? Probably not.
If she has Y chromosomes, she can
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Imane was born a woman. She identifies as a woman. No one but a corrupt Russian judge has ever said otherwise. Which is telling.
Ok but sports categories aren’t about how one identifies
Yeah they’re about how an arbitrary organisation has decided to, again arbitrarily, split up the messy and complicated mess that is “”““biological sex””“”".
But how do you propose they arbitrate without ‘acting arbitrarily’?
Here’s a crazy idea: don’t.
Cool how you ignore everything else except my choice of the word “arbitrary”
You do realise the situation with Imane is the exact opposite. People decided she was a man and started to attack her. She’s evidence of gender as a social construct.
Luckily we don’t listen to those ‘people’
But she does not, do you really not know what born as a woman means?
If she does not, then she can compete in the women’s category
So great either way
If you are unable to read, why comment? The whole thread is about how they would not let her compete in the woman’s category either because transphobes are idiots.
She could, and she won
Read the article, she got disqualified
Is that really the only criteria? Can a man with de la Chapelle syndrome play women’s sports?
As I understand it: he can’t. De la Chapelle syndrome implies he has the SRY gene
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What do you propose
If we ignore the fact that she’s not transgender: trans women tend to be on oestrogen, and on testosterone blockers. They can’t compete with men the same way cis women can’t.
Why would you conflate her case with transgenderism?
To answer you though: if a cis-man takes ‘one’ oestrogen and ‘one’ testosterone blocker, can a cis-woman compete with them? Or do you think it depends?