Trans people & sports

[Shell B]

Yeah, as I said, I think it's a complicated issue. The other girls seemed perfectly happy with it, so if they're good with it, I have no complaint. Of course, you're right. There is the possibility that it bothers them, which is why I leave it to the school.

It's very sad that these people are born with the wrong bodies or the wrong hormones or a "mental disorder," as some trans people and some not-so-nice people might label it. I'm not sure of the cause of trangenderism, but I think it's awfully sad, and must be terribly uncomfortable for trans people. Still, they have been born transgender, and will have to learn to navigate their lives as transgender people, realizing that they are not "less" than their preferred gender, but that they are different. It's a shit card to be dealt, unless you're a really well-adapted person who owns that shit. A lot of us are dealt shit cards. We can't pretend that card was never dealt, but we can embrace transgenderism for the perfectly normal, but inherently different, thing that it is. Neither denying there are differences or denying these people have legitimate needs, rights and complaints will help.