The John Oliver video goes through your concerns and talks about how:
a. most trans athletes haven’t been winning big, ppl with an agenda have been twisting facts to make it seem like they have.
b. a blanket ban is not the answer, but each sport competition making their own rules based on how many years of hrt the athlete has been on, how much of a difference sex makes for that sport, etc. Which is what was happening for years.
c. There are much bigger and more common issues with women’s sports that we need to address like coaches assaulting athletes, lack of resources compared to male teams, etc. And the same ppl claiming to protect women’s sports by banning trans athletes are voting against measures to fix these issues.
https://tube.fede.re/w/16650f54-3c69-4d81-b7ae-17f0a3889dbd
The John Oliver video goes through your concerns and talks about how:
a. most trans athletes haven’t been winning big, ppl with an agenda have been twisting facts to make it seem like they have.
b. a blanket ban is not the answer, but each sport competition making their own rules based on how many years of hrt the athlete has been on, how much of a difference sex makes for that sport, etc. Which is what was happening for years.
c. There are much bigger and more common issues with women’s sports that we need to address like coaches assaulting athletes, lack of resources compared to male teams, etc. And the same ppl claiming to protect women’s sports by banning trans athletes are voting against measures to fix these issues.
That makes a whole lot of sense.
I am generally against “across the board” rules, as it often hurts more people than they benefit. Making individual rules for each sport makes sense.
Also yes, do something about judges raping athletes, like wtf?
Also a lot of the cases actually reported were sports where gender doesn’t confer and advantage either way, like disc golf.