Big C said:
DiabloWags said:
concordtom said:
oski003 said:
36% of high school-aged girls actively play on a sports team.
99.9% will never face a trans athlete.
True.
Except at the California State High School Track & Field Championships for that 0.1%
Triple Jump Podium, June 2026
AB Hernandez, Jarupa Valley High
CIF State Long Jump, Triple Jump, and High Jump Champion
(20-04.75, 41-7.25, 5-08)
Considering this happens so rarely, I think the way they're handling it currently is just fine. No biological girl lost her spot on the podium. If it was common for the biological girls to be losing roster spots or podium spots to trans girls, this issue would cry for more regulation, but it's not.
This issue is just red meat for people who think transgender girls are going to take over girls sports. Or for people who just get all worked up over the trans issue, in general.
It is not an extremely important issue to me, and I readily admit there are small number of trans athletes, but to think why it has become such a big issue is simply because it is for political gain or prejudice belies the posters own biases. The argument seems to be transgender athletes represent a tiny fraction of competitors so why does anyone care except for political advantage, and all those people who care are just dumb lambs that we smarter elites know better than. In fact, in the last Pew Poll, showed 73% of Americans were against trans athletes participating in women's sports.
The concerns are in fact at the higher sports levels, such as the Olympics, and that is among other things because young girls deeply look up to top female athletes. Studies show that visible women in sports boost girls' confidence, motivate them to play sports, and a whole lot of other things that parents and experts find desirable. And the parents, friends and relatives of these girls care, as do the athletes who participate at a higher level and their parents and others that support them. They are concerned regarding competitive fairness, physiological differences, and in the US, what they see as a father erosion of the protection of opportunities provided by Title IX by allowing male attendance (after reading at least I now know what the Title 9 issues actually is about). And it just not in the US or Maine, or wherever.
Intense global debates sparked by events in the Tokyo and Paris games where transgender athletes dominated in several sports forced the IOC to reevaluate its position, after undertaking a lengthy study, and then to ban trans athletes.
Backed by medical experts, the study argued that even minimal biological advantages from male development compromise competitive fairness and physical safety in contact or combat disciplines.
Internal polling indicated that a vast majority of female athletes and Olympians favored protected biological categories and heavily influenced the final policy shift. Of course these world class athletes were being misled by loser world leaders perpetuating the ruling class and the rest of the usual predictable garbage from the usual know it all sources who see any issues wholly through the lens of their rabid political views, not to mention the most people who follow sports in the world, and the 75% of Americans and the rest of the sheep. And you wonder why these elitist folks keep supporting candidates that can't win elections?
