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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
I suspect they will face backlash no matter what - if there are rules or no rules. If they dominate - they will get backlash. If they suck - they will get backlash. If they change in the same change room - backlash. If they get their own special change room separate from the team - backlash. If they do nothing but play the sport and are completely average - backlash.
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That’s the way it will go for the foreseeable future. History shows that to be the case with societal changes. And even for these historical issues, we aren’t fully there.
A gay sportsperson in the past, like gay actors, politicians, employees, had to keep quiet about it otherwise the impacts on them, their livelihood and in many cases, their families, were catastrophic.
In in a lot of instances (most?) that isn’t the case now. A massive outlier however, is in team sports where the number of openly gay people in sports does not appear to be credible given the proportion of gay people in society.
Similar with visible minorities, it was not long ago and it still occurs that you get monkey noises when a black person touches a soccer ball and the crowd waved inflatable bananas in their faces.
Changes in societal attitudes and public policy will likely continue to move at a glacial pace compared to how quickly it needs to move to enable Trans people to live their lives free from the backlash that will occur no matter how successfully or unsuccessfully they perform.