HelenaHandBasket said:
SoldierGriz said:
Yes. They are the only ones disadvantaged when they have to compete against men. No one is prohibiting trans people from competing.
So you don't believe that males transitioning to females are at a disadvantage if forced to compete against other males? Also, how should we handle any females transitioning to males? Are you good with them competing against females? I am sure a year of testosterone could do wonders for performance.
So you believe there should be no consequence to peoples choices? For men, they are choosing to change the look of their breasts and crotches, and choosing to enhance that look by hormone suppression therapy, which has a side effect of diminishing natural athletic abilities (but only slightly so they can can crush women, but struggle against other men).
For women, we already ban all male athletes who dope with testosterone, which would apply to them as well (a really stupid example to throw out but throw away..)
Sometimes life's choices are a bitch. Until the day science reaches a point where doctors can turn the y chromosome to an x, your position, based on feelings, will never be correct. The upside is if they ever figure how switch y to an x, they could switch back when the patient finally realizes, as so many do, the sex change was not the answer to their problems. And maybe the transgender suicide rate, as noted in a study published in the American Academy of Pediatrics, will come down.
"More than half of transgender male teens who participated in the survey reported attempting suicide in their lifetime, while 29.9 percent of transgender female teens said they attempted suicide. Among non-binary youth, 41.8 percent of respondents stated that they had attempted suicide at some point in their lives."
I know all these downsides because a very dear friend's son was going through identifying as a girl near the end of grade school, and I helped her research the challenges her son would face if he chose to continue on that path. He read everything we gave him and made an informed choice to continue, aware of the downside consequences others before him had suffered.
The reason life ain't fair is because everybody's definition of fairness comes from their own unique internal perspective, (unless, of course, they are woke, where group think teaches you can never be woke enough or fair enough.)
