I just wish our Women's Head Basketball Coach agreed with you. Obviously she doesn't.
See, that's where the right takes it too far. What advantage would Zion Williamson really have by transitioning into a woman? Stay a Man and make hundreds of millions or dominate woman and make a Couple Hundred Thousand. Agree with you on the issue, but all the "Oh the Horror" stories is a bit much. The issue is what do you do with that group. There aren't enough of them, I don't think, to have any real competition amongst themselves. Do you have them compete with the group that they transitioned from which brings it's own set of problems (My view by the way). If I am a judge, I am going to have to lean on the medical professionals on this one. What do they say? Just not as easy question as people on both sides make it out to be.
It likely won't play out with the Zion Williamses of the world, that was bad example. How it has and will continue to play out out is the Leah Thomases of the world. Guys who were average or below average male competitors but who would dominate as a female. I won't get into the motivations of the trans person, but It's not hard to imagine a decent-but-not-great male HS basketball player who has zero chance of landing a basketball scholarship _anywhere_ securing a full-ride scholarship at a P5 school as a thoroughly dominant female player. On the current trajectory, the examples which seem far-fetched today will be commonplace in 20 years and it will effectively eliminate women's sports at any program that wants to win championships.
Just don't see it that way. To me there are too many disadvantages to being a woman still in American society to just transition over to win a race or win a basketball game. See it as a much more serious issue that probably both of us don't understand. That is why I say lean on the professionals on this. I don't agree with the left just saying "yeah, let them play. Don't agree with right either saying "You transitioned so you are just SOL". This is where our best and brightest have to figure it out and we all see what happens.
Who says? You? What degree do you have to give any type of educated opinion on this. It's just you talking. At least I can see past myself and acknowledge that I am uneducated on the issue (Which should have been Coach Staley's answer on the topic, BTW). Most people are uneducated in this area and just operating off of feelings, whether they be moral, biblical, secular, or otherwise. We elect officials for this. We appoint judges for this. Whatever they decide, we will all have to live with. That is all I'm saying.
We shouldn't sell ourselves short by relying on "credentialism" to navigate us through an issue like this. There are some issues in this world that are pretty simple to understand for which we need not yield too much authority to "professionals." If I need to build a new bridge in Baltimore, sure, I'll consult a team of engineers, but I don't need to consult engineers to know that it collapsed. In the same way, we don't need medical professionals to confirm that most biological men will dominate similarly situated biological women in most sports.
I didn't say anything about transitioning. I meant what would he do as he is. But even IF he transitioned, he'd still be 50lbs heavier and most likely more muscular than any woman he'd play against. And "the problem" has already been shown. Lia Thomas was mediocre at best in men's sports and immediately won in women's sports. It's no equality or equity. It's a farce. It's ruining women's sports for women who train hard.
I am part of the LGBTQ+ umbrella and I don’t support trans people playing in their non-born gender for sports. I am also not mad at Staley for her opinion; we all have a right to one. In my opinion, there are too many complexities to drawing the line to keep the playing field fair. I guess the only exception I would consider is a fully transitioned person; meaning complete surgeries. I think another option would be creating club teams for trans athletes; similar to AAU or travel ball. I absolutely believe they should have an avenue to play sports, but the playing fields need to be fair.
IMO, this has nothing to do with LBGTQ rights. There is nothing about it that is even anti-trans. It is simply anti-biological males competing in biological female sports.
I'm guessing it's not far from the same number of tubes which have had toothpaste reintroduced into them.
The amount of transgender athletes is not relevant. Even just one single biological male participating in a biological female sport is one too many and should not be tolerated.
Fairness to me = having trans leagues in whatever sports there's sufficient demand.
Yes. While I'm certainly no fan of transgender anything, it still takes a lot of guts, courage, and conviction to go through all of this. It's far more personal and individually deep-seated than to do all of this for an athletic scholarship.
I would have asked whether or not the team was staying over in Cleveland to watch the eclipse.
Maybe, but gender disphoria is a recognized mental illness. Until our medical books and journals change that, I'm sticking with the concept that women shouldn't be forced to compete against or share locker rooms with men.
I'd add that a doctor's input or a consensus should not be a determining factor in the sports issue. IMO, those in or have been in the sports field carry far more weight. I am convinced there are very few academics out there that truly understand what it's like to participate in sports... especially at a serious level. Give me the opinion of someone who has over anyone who hasn't. Are there some coaches and players out there that have similar views as Dawn? Yeah but I'd bet the farm that her views are of a small minority of sports participants in comparison.
