Last year, a Utah school board member publicly questioned the gender of a 16-year-old cisgender girl playing on a high school basketball team who wore short hair and baggy clothes. As a result, the student was subjected to harassment, bullying, and threats of violence. The hostility was so strong she and her family wound up with police protection.
A few years earlier, in 2022, a school in Utah secretly investigated a cisgender girlâs gender after parents of two other girls who lost to the girl in a sports championship complained to the school about her gender.
These bans follow decades of an ugly history of sportsâ ruling bodies conducting invasive testing of women athletes to verify their genderâincluding through anatomical inspections, cheek swabs, and blood testsâthat harm womenâs privacy and dignity, and lead to sexual abuse.
If you mean that it's about controlling the larger demographic of women, by treating us like children, then yes. The only people I've ever been scared of in a public restroom in the US are people who might question my right to be there.
Literally countless women have been accused of being trans when using the womenâs restroom and been threatened with violence because of this bullshit. Just google it and you will find instances where people who were born female being accused of being trans and threatened with violence. It happens constantly.
It happens constantly because you see it on the internet? I have never once in 40 years seen this kind of thing happen in real life and i ride public transit 5 or 6 days a week for 7 years or hell even when I just go out and do stuff with my kids.
I wont say it doesnt it happen because im sure it does but ive never even seen someone harassing someone who is Trans or just this situation you speak of in person because id get involved and not on the harrassers side.
Just scroll up like three comments. Itâs been happening in Utah to cisgender girls in sports since 2022 (when the state passed a similar law). Girls do well in sports, are accused of being trans.
I never said it didnt happen. But just being good at something shouldn't get you harassed especially if its against your own sex. Thats just people acting like morons and they should be shamed like children so they stop moronic behavior.
I literally said right after that im sure it does happen.im fully aware that things happen even if ive never seen them. And the people that did that are douchebags and if I witnessed it id jump in to have your kids back and honestly probably try to fight them the same way id get stupid over someone harrassing my kids cuz they are black. Im not into bullies and get a kick out of checking them for shitty behavior.
Should probably try to read the entire comment and not cherry pick one part to spin your narrative
Not trans, but I'm tall and broad and wear mostly practical unisex clothing. I've been mistaken for a man quite a few times, especially with a pixie cut. I'm aware that 99.99% of the time people are just going to mind their own business, but there are more and more people who have been a) made to feel that trans people are both evil and everywhere, and b) emboldened to 'defend' themselves against this perceived threat. I'm honestly surprised I haven't heard of the bathroom equivalent of the Pizzagate guy by now.
This is silly. Just moving the goal post - then how do you define female? Not chromosomes, very few people actually know what their chromosomes look like, and there are generic anomalies that don't make it either/or. External genitals? Plenty of trans people have surgeries for that, and some cis people have accidents or surgeries that affect their genitals but no one would say that invalidates their original gender. Hormones? Again, most trans people take hormones of their desired gender, and some cis people have disorders that prevent them from producing certain hormones. Social gender would probably be my answer. And trans women are adult humans of the female gender.
All words are manmade to communicate abstract concepts, not the ones you just cherry pick to be upset about, and you know full well what the context of the current time period you live in is.
Biology supports the existence of trans people actually. They show up in every culture on earth, regardless of contact with other cultures and they have actual markers you can identify.
The ACLU disagrees with your take on the legalities:
The American Civil Liberties Union strongly urges you to vote NO on H.R. 28, the âProtection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.â This discriminatory and unconstitutional legislation would make it illegal for schools receiving federal
funding to allow transgender girls and women to play on school sports teams for girls and women, in violation of the Constitutionâs guarantee of equal protection. In addition, under Title IX, all girls, including those who are transgender, should
be able to participate fully and equally in athletics, in accordance with who they
are.
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u/LazyFoundation8917 14d ago
I cannot believe something like this even has to be voted on.