Two transgender girls can try out for and play on girls school sports teams while the teens challenge a New Hampshire ban, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
The families of Parker Tirrell, 15, and Iris Turmelle, 14, sued in August seeking to overturn the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act that Republican Gov. Chris Sununu signed into law in July. While Turmelle doesn’t plan to play sports until December, Tirrell successfully sought an emergency order allowing her to start soccer practice last month. That order was expiring Tuesday.
In issuing a preliminary injunction, U.S. District Court Chief Judge Landya McCafferty found Tirrell and Turmelle were likely to succeed in their lawsuit. She found that the students “demonstrated a likelihood of irreparable harm” in the absence of a preliminary order.
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There is usually, the “men’s” competition is actually usually an “open” competition.
Then there is a separate women’s only “league” or whatever the actual word is, I don’t sportsball that much.
I did find out there is a game called goalball, and that feels like cheating
How many trans kids in an age bracket in a single sport across the whole country do you think there are? For any team sport, it would be difficult to field a single team, let alone another team, for them to play against.
Like transhuman sports category? For cyborgs and such? Could be cool, but also could incentivize people give their body away to companies to make money. Guess first we just need to do away with companies.
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I always thought it was open and then women. Open for any to join then a women’s team if there were enough women playing the sport. My highschool had a girl play on the football team, I think it was because we didn’t have a girls football team but w/e.
Yeah. Cyborgs.
Trans women are women just like Irish women are still women. Trans men are men just like finned men are men.
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Huh? Having fins isn’t a nationality? Irish was just an example of an adjective. Not sure why you are bringing it up?
Sorta, but the statement seems to show a pretty relevant and significant misunderstanding. Trans isn’t like an easily externally identifiable trait like skin color (technically an autopsy could potentially provide evidence for being trans even in those who’ve never taken hormones or done any gender-affirming surgeries, but like we are talking about correlates, not defining features). But like neither is autism. You find out basically by asking.
For sports, some leagues have started dealing with the existence of trans people and hormone-doping cis women by simply making sports divisions include hormone requirements. Its not really about whether the person is trans or cis though, so it means some cis women who aren’t doping get excluded from cis women sports with such rules.
PS: gender and race are both just made up.
Trans men are men, and trans women are women.
The media blows this out of proportion for you to even consider this an option. If you think that’s an idea that makes sense then re-evaluate where you got that talking point.
There are laws banning trans people in states that affect like 5 people (I want to say there was a state law that literally affected one trans girl in the entire state.)
The state was Utah, the governor quoted the following in his veto statement:
The veto was overridden.
There should be an anti-trans post category.
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As long as all self-identifying women are included, yes.
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Gtfo.
Found the Republican
There shouldn’t be gendered sports. Just let them all have fun.
But then a woman might beat a man! Think of the horror! The shame!!
Half the women would be males at birth, so technically no one would actually know who beat who ;)
ChEcKmAtE!!!