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Originally Posted by jayswin
Sorry probably disregard that, I get a little fired up over trans discussion.
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It is frustrating because it’s so absurd. If
every high-school aged trans girl in the US joined an athletic program they would account for roughly 2.5/100 girls. If they followed the same participation rates as cis girls it would be around 1/200. And that’s just attending an athletic program. It doesn’t begin to account for factors like depression and suicide that reduce participation in social activities at a higher rate among trans girls, nor does it attempt to quantify the chance of coming across an athletically gifted trans girl who reduced opportunity for cis girls.
Your child is more likely to get cancer than to be in a situation where a trans girl makes an athletic team over them, and yet that’s what people worry about and want something done about. Shrug their shoulders and say “if they die they die, nothing I can worry about, so long as a trans girl doesn’t make the team over them.”
UK politics are probably worse for this, but US politics are still absolutely ####ed. There was a good Jon Stewart interview with a law maker a while back that highlighted just how absurd and solely ideological the issue is. Just painful to watch.