DALLAS — Democratic U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico on Wednesday said he opposed transgender student-athletes competing in girls’ sports “if it endangers safety or fairness,” reversing course on previous positions he took while in the Texas House opposing restrictions on trans athletes.
Could someone just explain why, since its known trans athletes will have different physical attributes than the biological ones (which is what these guys keep spouting afaik)
Why cant there be 3 categories instead of just mens and womens?
Can you post me a genuine, not supported by explicitly anti-trans groups, study that shows your feels to be true?
You gave up the game when you said biological instead of cis.
Oh no im not American or chronically online
The horror
After around 2 years a trans woman on HRT is on par physically with a cis woman.
A 2024 paper published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found that when comparing transgender women, cis women, cis men, and transgender men who compete in regular competitive sport, that transgender women had lower lower-body strength and reduced lung capacity than cis women. Bone density was also equivalent.
That study verifies a report by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) in 2024 that trans women who go through testosterone suppression and gender-affirming medical care do not possess a biomedical edge over cis women in sport. The CCES review of a decade’s worth of peer-reviewed research advocated for evidence-informed policies, rather than ones driven by prejudice or fear.
Interesting Thanks
But it would then be a different thing to bar entry under 2 years no?
A lot already do, trans women don’t have an issue with that.
We do have an issue with being called biological men and that we’re all just men in women’s clothing competing with them with “superior” men’s bodies and being barred entirely.
Wow
So they really just mad for the hell of it
Look at the WNBA, not a single trans women has ever played in it yet they’re causing all this drama about us.
They just want us dead.
sorry, what’s the third category then?
Disposable.
Trans female, I guess. I don’t think anyone cares about trans males playing in the male league. But it’s stupid - if we need different divisions, we should categorize by weight, like they do in boxing.
ok so how many trans women do you think exist who live locally and wish to play this specific sport?
seems like it would be a pretty lonely team unless you start some sort of bussing arrangement.
has this idea fallen apart for you yet?
Did I not say it was stupid already? But you can fight me over nothing if it makes you happy.
Your argument doesn’t make sense because it assumes playing any sport is a right. If I want to play a particular sport, it’s on me to jump through all the hurdles to make that happen such as passing try outs, paying for the private sports clubs, or finding a league for my specific demographic and skill level, or bringing my community together to make a new league. If I have a physical disability I’d have to make sure that’s accommodated on top of that (usually not). I think most people don’t ever get the chance to participate in most sports anyway.
my argument is that there are not enuf teenage trans women in a random small town in ohio to make up a whole high school soccer team.
i’m not sure what this has to do with any of that 👆
im also not on board with you connecting being trans to having a disability.
The discourse on this issue is way overfocused on elite athletes, imo. Elite athletes have different reasons for pursuing their sport and are up against the upper limits of what their bodies are capable of. The real value of sports for the vast majority of people is in the exercise and community, and their performance is largely dependent on skill, not their genetics. Most people don’t pursue a sport, but we would all probably benefit a lot from one.
Unfortunately, the discussion re: elite athletes is causing restrictions on trans athletes to be introduced at amateur levels and even among child athletes, where the competitive concerns are completely irrelevant. Given how important sports and games can be for motor learning, creating situations where kids are excluded or otherwise made to feel uncomfortable in athletic spaces is doing them a lot of harm.