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The next state to codify the creepy moral panic of trans girl athletes: Florida

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Like most state-level bills attacking transgender student-athletes, this bill only bans transgender girls from school sports, not transgender boys. It also affects all levels of education, including the college-level, using language parroted by Republicans across the country about how cisgender girls are being denied scholarships and may be crowded out of sports altogether by transgender students, something that has never happened in any state or in any sport.

But unlike many states, where these bills have either been vague about how sex will be determined or point to birth certificates, the Florida bill says that a female student-athlete’s sex can be disputed. A dispute would require a “health examination and consent form or another statement from the student’s health care provider to verify the student’s biological sex.”

In other words, genital exams even when the young person doesn't want them. Even when they are under the age of consent.

QAnon, where are you? Oh yeah, you're endorsing this creepiness. (n)
 
The party of Matt Gaetz wants to codify into law that they get to stare at young people’s naked genitals.

Everything that right-wing extremists accuse us of, they are guilty of doing or enabling. Every single one.
 
Everything that right-wing extremists accuse us of, they are guilty of doing or enabling. Every single one.
That is consistent with the trend for Pedos to be members of the GOP. It's like the priesthood used to be and nothing is off limits. Look at their de facto leader, the one term mistake paying off pornstars for sex while POTUS and not a peep about from the flock.
 
Everything that right-wing extremists accuse us of, they are guilty of doing or enabling. Every single one.

“We need to look at your child’s vagina, in case she’s hiding a dick” says the folks who insisted a small piece of cloth over their mouths to enter a Target was an attack on their liberties.
 
“We need to look at your child’s vagina, in case she’s hiding a dick” says the folks who insisted a small piece of cloth over their mouths to enter a Target was an attack on their liberties.

Fear isn't rational, and I don't know how you fix that.
 
It's similar to the Trump strategy regarding non-white people trying to seek asylum in full accord with US law: try to scare them away by traumatizing them.
 





In other words, genital exams even when the young person doesn't want them. Even when they are under the age of consent.

QAnon, where are you? Oh yeah, you're endorsing this creepiness. (n)
Just require a birth certificate, I believe they still state the sex at birth.
 
"Your papers, please."

This is what Trumpers support. No surprise. When someone believes the CIA is fake, the FBI is fake, the courts are fake, Scotus is fake, congress is fake, the press is fake and elections are fake... basically everything about America is fake... then of course they're on board with "your papers, please".
 
Just require a birth certificate, I believe they still state the sex at birth.
Are you threatened by trans people? Do they offend your conservative sensibilities or is it that maybe you just dont understand what being transgendered means and why?
 
New Flash! Trans girls are really guys. They can pretend whatever they like but allowing biological guys to compete in girls athletics is just mistreating biological girls.
The "Me Too" movement doesn't mean crap when it comes to boys competing against girls.
 
i support allowing pissed off middle aged men to participate in the female sports that they are so concerned about but have probably never even watched. when that turns out badly for them, they can access the best private health care system in the world via their preferred for profit insurance provider.
 
i support allowing pissed off middle aged men to participate in the female sports that they are so concerned about but have probably never even watched. when that turns out badly for them, they can access the best private health care system in the world via their preferred for profit insurance provider.

Do you support 6ft 18 year old males to also participate in women's sport?
 
Do you support 6ft 18 year old males to also participate in women's sport?
i don't watch sports or reality tv, but my idea would be like "Treadmill to Bucks" in The Running Man. we could call it "Couch To WNBA."
 
i don't watch sports or reality tv, but my idea would be like "Treadmill to Bucks" in The Running Man. we could call it "Couch To WNBA."

Not sure what middle aged men have to do with this. We're talking about males competing against females of the same age.
 
Not sure what middle aged men have to do with this. We're talking about males competing against females of the same age.
because generally, the people who feign outrage about transgender athletes are middle aged men who gave zero ****s about women's sports before they heard the word transgender.
 
because generally, the people who feign outrage about transgender athletes are middle aged men who gave zero ****s about women's sports before they heard the word transgender.

Are they? Most people who are concerned seem to be women like Martina Navratilova.

By the way, why does athletics have separate male and female events? Why does football or boxing have separate nale and female matches?
 
Are they? Most people who are concerned seem to be women like Martina Navratilova.

By the way, why does athletics have separate male and female events? Why does football or boxing have separate nale and female matches?
Why are you so interested in American policy when your own universities says that there isn't a problem?

But was this concern justified? My colleagues and I, in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, became intrigued and decided to explore these questions and determine whether there was any real cause for concern.


We reviewed 31 national and international transgender sporting policies, including those of the International Olympic Committee, the Football Association, Rugby Football Union and the Lawn Tennis Association.


After considering the very limited and indirect physiological research that has explored athletic advantage in transgender people, we concluded that the majority of these policies were unfairly discriminating against transgender people, especially transgender females.


The more we delved into the issue, the clearer it became that many sporting organisations had overinterpreted the unsubstantiated belief that testosterone leads to an athletic advantage in transgender people, particularly individuals who were assigned male at birth but identify as female.


There is no research that has directly and consistently found transgender people to have an athletic advantage in sport, so it is difficult to understand why so many current policies continue to discriminate. Inclusive transgender sporting policies need to be developed and implemented that allow transgender people to compete in accordance with their gender identity, regardless of hormone levels.

 
Why are you so interested in American policy when your own universities says that there isn't a problem?




A 4.5 year-old study that has been superceded by more recent research. Research that I have linked to and which you dismissed out of hand.
 
A 4.5 year-old study that has been superceded by more recent research. Research that I have linked to and which you dismissed out of hand.
What post number is that?. Just reviewed all of your posts and none had a link provided by you that I could see.
 
Are they? Most people who are concerned seem to be women like Martina Navratilova.

By the way, why does athletics have separate male and female events? Why does football or boxing have separate nale and female matches?
i haven't seen Navratilova posting thread after thread about sports she doesn't actually care about on message boards. i have seen a lot of people who couldn't have given less of a **** about women's sports before all of the sudden acting like the world will divide by zero and Stimpy will hit the history eraser button if a trans woman runs the fifty yard dash in Bum****, Wisconsin, though
 
i haven't seen Navratilova posting thread after thread about sports she doesn't actually care about on message boards. i have seen a lot of people who couldn't have given less of a **** about women's sports before all of the sudden acting like the world will divide by zero and Stimpy will hit the history eraser button if a trans woman runs the fifty yard dash in Bum****, Wisconsin, though
This deserves a like just for the references.
:LOL:
 
This deserves a like just for the references.
:LOL:
i was hoping someone would find that little Easter egg. lol
 
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