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.

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    Which is of course the idea. All this transphobia bullshit is just an excuse to harass and control women.

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      Don’t forget the part where pedos can come into being a coach and request the ability to fondle little girls to check if they have a penis or not. Very important thing to not forget!

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      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.

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              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.

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                  No, but that has nothing to do with this boxer. If anything, her experience reinforces the headline of the article I posted.

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          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.

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            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?

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            If she has Y chromosomes, she can

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            Athletes that are deemed to be male at birth, as evidenced by the presence of Y chromosome genetic material (the SRY gene) or with a difference of sexual development (DSD) where male androgenization occurs, will be eligible to compete in the male category.

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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.

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                  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.

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                  Yeah they’re about how an arbitrary organisation has decided to, again arbitrarily, split up the messy and complicated mess that is “”““biological sex””“”".

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                  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.

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      “Simple science and biology” despite every medical organization in the country recognizing transgender identities as legitimate and recommending gender affirming care as treatment.

      Eat shit, transphobe.

      edit: Thank you mods for showing this shithead the door so quickly rat-salute