He huffed about how the question wasn’t “appropriate” even though his bill would result in kids being asked that same question.
A Republican state rep from Michigan testifying about his anti-trans sports bill on Monday was left speechless after an out Democratic colleague began his questioning by asking, “Representative, can you tell me: are you trans?”
A long beat staring down out gay Democratic state Rep. Mike McFall followed, before state Rep. Jason Woolford ® managed to reply, “Are you?”
“I’m actually going somewhere with this,” he said to lawmakers in the small chamber.
“Because I want to know, how does a 14-year-old girl prove whether or not she’s trans to a 50-year-old coach?”
I agree with what you’re saying but I also don’t think it has to come to that. I guess my point is that if we don’t make some attempt to set a standard then we are allowing literally anything. I don’t honestly care for sports being tied to school in the first place but are we saying that anyone can claim to be trans and join the other team at any time because we’re all too afraid to talk about it or what? If that’s the case then it seems like we should just do a way with gender in sports completely.
You have a standard. Men play in the men’s category, women in the women’s. In this context, a man is anyone with a testosterone-dominant biology, and a woman anyone with an estrogen-dominated biology. There is your objective standard.
What if a person feels like a girl and then later a boy but the later decides that they really felt most like themselves as a girl and would like to be a woman now?
Why the fuck should anyone else be involved in that discussion? For that sake of fairness in sportsball? Give me a break.
Sure just do coed sports whatever I don’t care.
The whole thing is based on a false premise, that sports were ever fair to begin with.