Alaskan boy participates in the girls state championship

[Benton]

(06-07-2016, 11:21 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: You do realize that by allowing this to happen girls athletics will go away.  There may end up being a "girls" team.... But by allowing boys to play on the girls team you take away opportunities for the actual girls and then run off any girl who doesn't want to play with boys.   

And actual feminists don't even want equal rights. But that's another thread topic 

Chicken Littling this one?

Transgenders are around 700,000, about .2% of the U.S. population. Adolescents are around 42 million, 13.2%. Even if EVERY transgender was under 19, you're still talking about a very small sample of students. Realistically, if the percentages are about the same, it's about 91,000 transgender students in that 42 million.

Even if you weight that completely as males identifying as females (which it's not), that's 91,000 to 42 million. That's one in every 462 students. Even if all of them played sports (which they don't) then that's not even good odds of making a team, let alone being numerous enough to make girls sports "go away."