Recent attacks on Trans Americans by the Trump admin

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(06-15-2020, 11:20 AM)fredtoast Wrote: I have a transgender son, so I support all equal rights for transgender people.

But even I see the problem with allowing transgender females to compete against biological females.  It just is not fair to biological females.

I wanto to give the LGBTQ community as many rights as possible and treat themn as equally as possible, but it is a very complicated issue and people have to be honest and fair when discussing the specific limited issue of sports.

I don't think guys will starting "faking" transgender status just to dominate female sports.  So there will be some transgender females who suffer if they are not allowed to compete on female teams, but you can't make things unfair for biological females just to try and make things fair for transgender females.

Some people here know that my dad is trans, so this is also a personal issue for me. It's why I pushed back when Lucie was allowed to constantly post slurs and brag about how he would stalk a trans grocery worker in his town.

NCAA requires something like 2 years of hormone treatment before you can compete, which seems like a good policy. I also do not see this as being a problem because how many trans student athletes are there really out there? As you said, no one is going out and faking being trans. No one wants the discrimination that comes with it just to win some athletic competitions.