With the recent issues of transgender people in sports, why don’t we move some sports over to a weight-class system?
With the recent issues of transgender people in sports, why don’t we move some sports over to a weight-class system?
Obviously this won’t work for all sports, but things like football, track, soccer, it would allow for de-gendered team, even allowing athletes with the skills but not the genetically-endowed physical attributes to have a place to play.
Note: I know very little about sports and being on a sports team, so please point out anything that doesn’t make sense.
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The "issue" with trans people in sports is nothing but moral panic founded on propaganda narratives and fueled by hatred, ignorance, and lack of scientific data thanks to centuries of systemic oppression and erasure.
Studies so far show that trans athletes are overall physiologically at a slight disadvantage compared to their cisgender peers, and this is borne out by real world statistics wherein trans athletes (NOT the edge cases the media likes to stir shit about) tend to underperform.
Last I checked underperformance by a specific demographic isn't considered an issue. The rest is hot air and warmed-over gay panic with the end of excluding trans people from public life, and you ought to respect yourself enough to not legitimize this hateful crock in this manner.
Do you have good resources I can read up on the studies?
Off the top of duck duck go, I get:
https://www.acsh.org/news/2022/06/13/science-transgender-athleticism-16343 which says:
- At 12 months, both lean body mass, how much muscle is present, and cross-sectional muscle size were significantly reduced.
- But the loss of muscle strength ranged from non-significant to 7%. “…after 12-36 months of GAHT suggests that transwomen likely retain a strength advantage over cisgender women.”
- The hemoglobin and hematocrit, the oxygen delivery essential to endurance, of transwomen were identical to ciswomen at four months.
Aside from those people complaining disingenuously, I feel like I haven't heard one actual problem with trans people in sports. It just never comes up.
What was that state that banned trans athletes, and it ended up being a law for literally one person?