Summary
Utah has introduced strict guidelines for transgender girls in high school sports, requiring testosterone levels below 66 ng/dl—far stricter than NCAA or Olympic standards—and proof of ongoing gender-affirming care, which was banned in the state in 2023.
Critics argue the rules effectively bar all transgender girls from participating, contradicting the law’s intent to only ban cases of safety or competitive advantage.
Advocates warn the policy harms trans youth by excluding them from the mental health and social benefits of sports.
FWIW - IMO all athletes should be subject to controls, and meet certain testosterone levels depending on their class, not just trans.
Why? 90% of high level athletics is genetics. Basically all your top athletes started out with a massive advantage over the general public. That is why Olympic gold and 4th+ place can be separated by a fraction of a second because everyone is amazing.
If we are banning girls with high T shall we also ban the tall ones too?
You are being trained to whine about fake problems
It’s definitely a real problem, but certainly not nearly as big as it’s made out to be given how few trans athletes there really are.
No. It’s not. How people are going to be able to afford food, is a problem. How people are going to be able to afford housing, is a problem. How are people going to be able to pay off their debt. You know…real problems affecting literally hundreds of thousands of Americans…not whether or not an extremely marginalized group can play a highschool sport. You are a pawn being used to erode our rights, and you play right into it.
Do you have any idea just how expensive it would be to do testing on every athlete?
There were 7.8 million student athletes in the US last year and the average cost of a testosterone test is 70 - 100 bucks. Even using conservative estimations, you’d need to spend half a BILLION dollars PER YEAR to accomplish this. And the worst part? Do you know how many of those 7.8 million were trans students? Five.
Not Five thousand. Not Fifty. Five.
You are being distracted and lied to.
I am not saying we should, but if apparently it needs to be done, we should rethink categories and classes more broadly, not in “boys” or “girls” terms.