Over the past two years, nine states have enacted laws to bar transgender girls and women from competing in girls’ and women’s sports. Another relied on an executive order for a ban.
L.G.B.T.Q. rights supporters gathered last month at the Texas statehouse to protest efforts to restrict the participation of transgender athletes in sports.
By David W. Chen
Oct. 28, 2021
Texas has become the latest, and the most populous, state to bar transgender girls from participating in girls’ sports at public schools.
Texas interscholastic rules had already prevented athletes from competing outside the gender category they were assigned at birth, unless they had changed their birth certificates to reflect their gender identity. But conservative lawmakers wanted to close the loophole, so they put forward a bill that was signed into law on Monday by Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican.
Since 2019, nine states — all controlled by Republican lawmakers — have enacted legislation to ban or limit athletic participation by transgender students, and another has done so via executive order, with all but one of the laws coming in 2021, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Supporters of the new law say that it promotes fairness because, without such legislation, women’s sports could be dominated by transgender athletes who have benefited from the gains in strength typically conferred by male hormones produced during puberty.
“Trans kids and adults in Texas — and everywhere — deserve love and support, peace of mind, health care, happiness, to be carefree and focus on living out their greatest potential,”
said Ricardo Martinez, chief executive officer of Equality Texas, the state’s largest L.G.B.T.Q. organization.
“They deserve not to be debated but affirmed and the right to exist without their government trying to push them out of everyday life.”
J. David Goodman contributed reporting
The transgender sports disturbance.
There is in the news a great deal of discussion about transgender kids and adults participating in sports. Most of this discussion is focused upon all of the wrong things, things like how brave transgender athletes are, or how progressive an event coordinator is, etc..
What is missing is reality. Gender plays no role in sports competitive categories. I believe the word does get used, but only by people who prefer not to use the word sex in this context as they think it refers to copulation.
You see, sports competitive categories are defined by biological sex, not by gender. So, it doesn’t matter whether you are gay, lesbian, or transgender, you compete against others of you biological sex, age, ability, etc.
Some of these categorizations stem from people not wanting their sons/daughters mingling closely with competitors of the opposite sex. Girls, for example, were not allowed to wrestle boys when I was in school, and now some can (some, not all). Many of these segregations were completely unnecessary to create competitive balance, just to preserve prudishness, dignity, or whatever. (In my sport, archery, I would lump all boys and girls together in age group or ability categories and I have the data to back that position up. I also recognize that boys and girls can lose points to their score because they are more interested in flirting than shooting, but they have to learn that lesson some time, why not then?)
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This thing was really bad in past years.
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Genderrs should not be considered as obstruction in any sport either its gay lesbian or transgender… this topic need to b highlighted
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I hope things will get bettee for them in future.
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In spite of the fact they are trans or gay doesn’t mean they have to be treated differently, this need to be noticed to give equal rights either in sports or on any occasion of life.
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Great and informative article 👍 👏. Thank you for raising awareness on this topic.
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This matter should be supported can’t ignore the equality among each everyone.
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Nice efforts!!!
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Genderrs should not be considered as obstruction in any sport either its gay lesbian or transgender… this topic need to b highlighted
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This needs to be discussed! Nice
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Nice picked up topic
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Genderrs should not be considered as obstruction in any sport either its gay lesbian or transgender…
this topic need to b highlighted…
This topic is really impressive
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Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world
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Good thing about the whole research is that being human we do not feel inhumane of others whether they’re trans or gay or whatever. Human Rights must be same for everyone and applied too!
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Really informative and impressive🤩more power to you girl🙌🏿
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Impressive writing… proud of u..
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Nice efforts! Gender shouldn’t be a reason for obstruction in any ground.
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Nice efforts!
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Interesting
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It’s only after you have stepped outside comfortable zone that you being to change grow and comfortable.
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Good thinking!
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