Trans women are women. Trans men are men. There is no discussion to be had.
He’s purposely targeting a demographic that 1% of the population identifies as, and less than 1% are athletes. And he’s only talking about half of that less than 1%, he’s being as disingenuous as you.
Sure but it shouldn't be controversial to argue that trans women (formerly men) should not be allowed to play with naturalborn women in
competitive sports. The hormonal differences are basically doping.
Trans men (formerly women) should of course be allowed to compete with naturalborn men. If anything, the hormonal difference there would be a significant handicap.
As for the playground or school gym classes, no one in the right mind should care about who plays with or against who in some insignificant irrelevant exercise.
I'd like to think most trans people would probably agree it's unfair to compete against women as a trans woman when you're basically on steroids compared to them.
I've never looked at any polling on that but I've yet to meet a trans person who would argue against that.
I think the main issue is that people want to restrict them in basically any sports setting, not simply competitive settings where you're playing for some monetary gain, scholarships or whatever.
In my experience it's pretty common behavior for sore losers to complain and want to ban anyone that is vastly superior to their peers.
A childhood friend of mine ended up in the youth team for Club Brugge, which is one of the biggest and most successful football (soccer) clubs in Belgium. Guess what? People constantly complained about him on the playgrounds etc because he was so far ahead of everyone else in terms of skill and dominance. I know he was moved up several years in the local football academy because he was far too good and because of the complaints from sore losers.
Same thing happened to one of our most well known footballers, Romelu Lukaku, who towered over everyone at age 11 while also being way better in terms of skill. Literally twice the size of anyone else. By the time he was 13 he was like 6 feet.
Parents constantly complained and his mother was forced to bring a birth certificate along because people refused to believe his age and tried to ban him. Lukaku is black though so I'm guessing that was probably the basis for most of those complaints.
At the end of the day, it's called a
playground for a reason. Deal with it or go home.