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6 Feb, 12 tweets, 5 min read

🧵 Do transgender girls have an unfair competitive advantage in sports?

The Women's Sports Policy Working Group, created by six scholars and elite athletes, says their proposal provides a "compromise" to this debate.

No trans people are in the group. bit.ly/3tzovXF

The group, which includes tennis legend Martina Navratilova and Olympic gold medalist Donna de Varona, presented a plan this week that they say would allow trans youth to participate in school athletics. bit.ly/3tzovXF

LGBTQ+ advocates have promoted policies letting trans youth play on teams where they are most comfortable, typically with teams of the gender they identify with. bit.ly/3tzovXF

The group criticizes those policies, saying it allows trans girls with "unmitigated" testosterone to enter competitions against their cisgender peers.

LGBTQ+ advocates say the group's plan would force trans girls to undergo testing to play school sports. bit.ly/3tzovXF

The proposal was presented as an alternative to an executive order signed by President Biden that directs agencies to enforce the Supreme Court's June 2020 finding that the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans sex discrimination, applies to LGBTQ+ workers. whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

Biden's order does not create policy, but his directive does interpret the ruling to extend beyond employment, specifically citing sports for children.

Some opponents have accused Biden of "erasing women" in the order. The group has aimed to position themselves as the solution.

The group's policy aims to follow testing practices in elite sports.

The International Olympic Committee allows trans athletes to compete after medical transition, rules based on a study by transgender researcher Joanna Harper, who is a backer of the group, but not a member.

Harper's study looked at eight trans women runners and found that they were more than 10 percent slower after transitioning with hormones.
theguardian.com/sport/blog/201…

LGBTQ+ advocates and trans athletes have largely denounced the working group as a disingenuous attempt to exclude trans girls, created without the input of trans athletes.

None of the group's six members is transgender. bit.ly/3tzovXF

@APA

The @APA recommends policies that allow trans kids to play on a sports team consistent with their gender identity, and notes that no study has shown that it impacts the nature of the sport. bit.ly/3tzovXF

Trans advocates say an untold number of trans kids are already playing on their schools' teams without issue and that trans athletes come under scrutiny only when they win — a fixation that they say betrays the spirit and intent of sports. bit.ly/3tzovXF

@chelseawolfebmx

"What they're asking for as a complete guarantee on winning," @chelseawolfebmx said. "And winning is not a human right. Participation in sport is a human right."

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