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Originally Posted by Haplo
I don't like this argument very much. There is no issue because there are so few? Instead of having the discussion and having a clear policy in place, it will continue to create controversy with media publicity and hate. Is that beneficial to the person involved? There will certainly be more trans athletes in the future, including in combat sports.
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You're partially right and partially wrong here. You're right in the sense that if there isn't some sort of directive put in place, with respect to trans kids participating in sports, that there will continue to be this hate and division spewed against an innocent population of kids who are just trying to fit in and live their lives.
But the issue is that you can't just make a policy on which trans kids are okay to play sports with their chosen gender and which aren't without actual data to back it up. And while, yes, the data is relatively sparse right now, the small amount of data that
does exist shows that trans people playing in sports is a non-issue with respect to competitive fairness. It just is. End of story.
So yeah, there should be a policy: Until there is evidence to the contrary, leave trans kids/athletes the f*** alone. Their life is hard enough as it is already.