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ROG62 » Yesterday, 11:37 am » wrote: ↑ asks courts to read sex separation in sport as a core mechanism of equality for women, such that policies permitting transgender women in women’s events can violate Title IX by diluting competitive opportunity and undermining privacy in sex-segregated facilities. On the other side, civil-rights groups intervening in defense of transgender athletes argue that Title IX’s sex discrimination bar, as informed by modern Supreme Court doctrine, protects gender identity, and that categorical exclusions burden a tiny population without concrete competitive justification. These are not rhetorical flourishes; they are doctrinal bets about how far anti-discrimination law incorporates identity beyond biological classification.
Given the Supreme Court’s apparent openness to upholding at least some state eligibility bans, institutions should prepare for a period in which categorical rules stand in certain jurisdictions while sport governing bodies craft narrower exceptions in others, particularly for non-contact, skill-dominant sports or for athletes who began transition before puberty. The result is likely to be fragmented, iterative, and highly dependent on record-building in each sport.
women describe losing roster spots, podiums, or scholarships, and navigating discomfort in locker rooms—claims that, when credited, go to the heart of the category’s purpose. Transgender athletes and their advocates counter that participation itself is a crucible of social belonging and mental health, that numbers are small, and that inclusive school policies have not depressed girls’ overall participation rates in measurable ways. Both claims can be simultaneously sincere; neither, by itself, resolves policy across all sports.
https://usnewsmag.com/female-athletes-s ... dium=email
Isn’t one, albeit “tiny”, “measurable”?
WTF? why does everything need to be so complicated when it’s you’re either an XX or XY, right @Johnny You ???
What "courts" need to do is focus on why a mentally **** up person is seeking a surgical solution to their issues.
If they truly MUST be plastic surgeried and forever chemically induced into the comfortable fog of pretend womanhood, isn't that enough? Why must ALL OF SOCIETY acquiesce to their newly found fantasy?
Please seat yourself.
I like the very things you hate.
I like the very things you hate.