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Florida’s new transgender sports ban permits schools to require "routine sports physical examination" of the students' genitals, genetic makeup, and testosterone levels
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- Title
- Florida's new transgender sports ban permits schools to require genital inspections of children
- Published
- Apr 17 2021
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- 422 words
Seriously, man, this is some a-level gas lighting. Hoo, boy! I am a reasonably fit male who would be whipped by just about any division 1 female college athlete.
I’d bet money not a single male supporter of this bill could outrun the slowest female competitor.
Does anyone think that maybe the Americans are taking school sports a little too seriously? In Australia when I did school sports the end result wasn't really that important and no one would bother to cheat let alone go to such lengths to investigate perceived cheating. It was just a physical activity you did with your friends from school with a fun aim of winning some games.
They don't care about making sport more fair. They care about making life harder for transpeople.
Not just transpeople. They can also fuck with and degrade cis girls just by claiming they're trans. It's disgusting.
Americans, by and large, do take sports way to seriously.
I live in Texas where American Football is pretty much next to religion in terms of importance to a lot of people.
If you ever have the time, give the movie, Friday Night Lights, or it's spin off TV show by the same name a watch. It's exaggerated but only slightly. Texas has high school football stadiums that can fit thousands of people and a few of them cost millions upon millions of dollars to build.
When I played, 2002-2006, there were rumors that one of the schools in our district was illegally recruiting middle school kids to play for them but since it kept our area significant, the school district looked the other way. That's just rumor that was never substantiated but it did seem suspicious that the school in question seemed to get all the best local talent even when there high schools closer or those kids would up and move to get within that schools district.
How do you approve a bill with a provision for schools to inspect children's genitals and think you're doing something right?
Replying as though this is a real question even though it's probably rhetorical...
Because you believe transgender kids are confused or delusional and shouldn't exist in the first place. If it's their genitals that are being inspected it's ok because they are other.
Which is awful. And also, we all know people who have reacted irrationally to change they don't understand. They shouldn't be allowed to make laws, ideally, but they aren't impossible to empathize with.
And neither is it impossible for them to empathize. Whatever group they happen to be against, they're either secretly a part of, or it just hasn't been humanized for them yet.
Except for whatever percentage of them are psychopaths, with is definitely nonzero.
From this post in political compass memes
"Sports people need to show their genitals (this is implied of course) in the form of physicals anyway, so this bill is nothing much."
"It says examination, not inspection."
"Their gender can be confirmed by a medical official so all you need is a doctor's note, which is what trans people will just go get when this goes into effect."
There's also the more common claim that trans women maintain male muscle growth after transitioning, so letting them participate in women's sports is unfair, albeit it doesn't address the inspections part.
Shouldn't that be handled by a system like weight classes? IMO dividing sports by sex or gender isn't interesting on its own. It's only useful in that it allows for more people to compete on even ground.
Personally I think it depends on whether you view Olympic sports as people competing for the sake of competing vs pushing their bodies to the limit, or more ominously, optimizing/perfecting their bodies. With the former worldview you can just go and pick out things that make someone biologically more/less capable of doing certain things, in the latter, not so much.