Nutella wrote:
307trout wrote:
Nutella wrote:
307trout wrote:
Nutella wrote:
Yeeper wrote:
This is a growing issue that is a widely politicized one.
Is it really a growing issue?
When Utah passed it's law it had 75,000 High School athletes. Only one of them was M2F trans
When Alabama passed it's bill there were 190,000 High School athletes in the state. Not a single one was trans
When Mississippi passed it's ban there were 107,000 High School athletes in the state. Not a single one was trans. None in High School, Middle School, or college.
The IOC has allowed Trans athletes for 20+ years. In that time there has been a single trans Olympian, who would no longer qualfiy under the updated IOC regulations.
The primary push behind these laws is politicians using trans people for political gain, it is not because trans people are taking over women's sport.
The correct path is for this to be managed by the federations. Big Government regulation is not the answer.
When a male won a NCAA women's national title, it forced a response so that doesn't happen again.
I think most people would have assumed that something like the Thomas situation simply wouldn't be allowed to happen, that it must be a rule violation and surely they (sport governing bodies) wouldn't let an obvious male win a premier women's championship, but then it happened, and nobody with the sport governing body stepped in. I think there's sufficient reason to have generally lost trust in sport governing bodies such as the NCAA.
Do we now wait for it to happen again?
You are giving far too much credit to one person. Most of the were passed before Lia won anything. Most of the sporting federations had been working on updates to their transgender policies for years before they finally announced them. These were not overnight decisions.
One person changed it from a relatively obscure issue to a front page problem.
Texas, Arkansas, Florida, Alabama, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Mississippi, West Virginia, Utah, South Dakota, Montana, Iowa, Arizona, and Idaho passed laws banning Trans people in sports before Lia ever won a National Championship.
So the actions of Thomas basically proved that their efforts were necessary since the NCAA proved powerless to stop an obviously unfair situation.