Agreed. The reason this transgression doesn’t explode is because 99% of males see zero status in competing with girls. But a trans identity opens that door. I accept no boy joins a female team because he wants to defeat girls. I accept it is because society has taught him he can be freer to express his softer sides than male stereotypes allow. We need to expand models for boys as boys, rather than a false identity as a girl as trans ideology offers.
And trans sports open an ugly door, where telling a boy he can only show a softer side “as a girl” leads to a statistical advantage of strength and speed that can’t be ignored, even if that advantage doesn’t lead to always winning. It is still cheating but the ideology can’t admit that.
Funnily in elementary school, field day I only have two blue ribbons. Both in jump roping. I purposely didn’t enter in 4th grade, despite being good at it in private, because I thought it was a girl’s sport. But 5th grade they separated the boys so I entered and won.
Then in 6th grade they combined sexes again, but the public taboo against boys was broken, so I competed at beat the known best female jumper in my own class to qualify for the final interclass round. She was second best, but got nothing, because the best boy jumper was me and I was in her class. I never felt guilty for winning. I also knew on another day she could have won as well.
Elementary school may or may not be fair for boys and girls to compete. In general youth coordination I might suggest advantage to girls. My only advantage was I practiced a long time in secret for my own challenges. Sports you don’t need any rivals are my kind of sports.
Anyway, co-ed sports can be great, where it is safe, and single sex sports can be great where one sex won’t show up because of sex stereotypes.
But we can’t be calling boys girls as the reason they can compete. That is insane to me top to bottom, child abuse level lies. We must stop making sex/gender based stereotypes the basis of identities.
To be clear, the male field hockey player did not identify as trans. He was playing on the girls' team because his school did not offer a boys' team. The problem is that he is male playing with male advantage on a girls' team
Agreed. The reason this transgression doesn’t explode is because 99% of males see zero status in competing with girls. But a trans identity opens that door. I accept no boy joins a female team because he wants to defeat girls. I accept it is because society has taught him he can be freer to express his softer sides than male stereotypes allow. We need to expand models for boys as boys, rather than a false identity as a girl as trans ideology offers.
And trans sports open an ugly door, where telling a boy he can only show a softer side “as a girl” leads to a statistical advantage of strength and speed that can’t be ignored, even if that advantage doesn’t lead to always winning. It is still cheating but the ideology can’t admit that.
Funnily in elementary school, field day I only have two blue ribbons. Both in jump roping. I purposely didn’t enter in 4th grade, despite being good at it in private, because I thought it was a girl’s sport. But 5th grade they separated the boys so I entered and won.
Then in 6th grade they combined sexes again, but the public taboo against boys was broken, so I competed at beat the known best female jumper in my own class to qualify for the final interclass round. She was second best, but got nothing, because the best boy jumper was me and I was in her class. I never felt guilty for winning. I also knew on another day she could have won as well.
Elementary school may or may not be fair for boys and girls to compete. In general youth coordination I might suggest advantage to girls. My only advantage was I practiced a long time in secret for my own challenges. Sports you don’t need any rivals are my kind of sports.
Anyway, co-ed sports can be great, where it is safe, and single sex sports can be great where one sex won’t show up because of sex stereotypes.
But we can’t be calling boys girls as the reason they can compete. That is insane to me top to bottom, child abuse level lies. We must stop making sex/gender based stereotypes the basis of identities.
To be clear, the male field hockey player did not identify as trans. He was playing on the girls' team because his school did not offer a boys' team. The problem is that he is male playing with male advantage on a girls' team