(April 3, 2017 at 11:27 am)Jesster Wrote:(April 3, 2017 at 11:08 am)ukatheist Wrote: I can see where you are coming from with this, but idk if it's the right solution. I don't think it get the balance right between competitive fairness and the trans persons rights to gender determination. To me it seems a bit like telling a trans person they are not male/female enough to properly compete as a male/female. Also don't know if there are enough trans athletes to actually make a worthwhile competition (maybe at national levels, but when you get down to school/college level you might only have one or two trans athletes in any given competition).
I think a better solution would be to scrap events based on gender altogether and group according to ability, so you'll have a mix of genders in all events. Kinda like the way disability is grouped into different classes at the paras maybe?
You make some strong points. While there might be some amount of merit for Tiberius's suggestion on a national or international level, it certainly doesn't cover smaller local areas. As far as I know, I am the only transgender person from my quite large graduating high school class. How do team-based sports work for transgender students who are able to come out at that age?
Yeah, that is clearly a different issue. I agree. However, we already bend the rules for kids when it comes to mixing genders in sports (kids tend to be on a more level playing field when they're young, regardless of gender). I imagine that could be left up the school, parent and student in any given situation. I think creating an actual law about it would be difficult, but I see no reason states can't try to develop/pass laws on it.
