At a contentious meeting, the Redlands Unified School Board voted 3-2 to pass the motion that bars transgender athletes from competing in girls' sports.
None of these bans are being made in response to trans women being too good at sports. If trans women regularly won top level competitions, this would be an issue, but that doesn’t happen.
Trans women are worse at athletics than cis women. The way HRT works results in significantly higher levels of estrogen than cis women. That makes trans women worse at athletics, if they have been on HRT long enough.
If the goal was fair sports for all women, they would be following the research, making or changing rules for trans women specifically. Requiring trans athletes be on HRT long enough, and to document having the right levels to ensure they don’t have an advantage according to the research that exists.
No, they choose to ban trans athletes instead. The intent behind these laws is not fairness, the intent is to make trans people not exist.
None of these bans are being made in response to trans women being too good at sports. If trans women regularly won top level competitions, this would be an issue, but that doesn’t happen.
Trans women are worse at athletics than cis women. The way HRT works results in significantly higher levels of estrogen than cis women. That makes trans women worse at athletics, if they have been on HRT long enough.
If the goal was fair sports for all women, they would be following the research, making or changing rules for trans women specifically. Requiring trans athletes be on HRT long enough, and to document having the right levels to ensure they don’t have an advantage according to the research that exists.
No, they choose to ban trans athletes instead. The intent behind these laws is not fairness, the intent is to make trans people not exist.