Many of these Bills are trying to impose symmetry on an inherently asymmetric situation.
Anyone should be allowed, safety assured, to ‘punch up’ a category. This is especially important when they do not have a category of their own.
Anyone should be allowed, safety assured, to ‘punch up’ a category. This is especially important when they do not have a category of their own.
https://twitter.com/senerikageiss/status/1369800636204781574
There should not be barrier to a female playing in a male team (if she is safe to do so). Reframing all ‘male’ categories as ‘open’ (as many technically are) will underline this concept.
Regulating transgirls/transwomen in female sport is not mirrored by exactly the same set of concerns as regulating transboys/transmen in open-but-practically-male sport.
Legislators who propose to regulate the former by exclusion and then knee-jerk to similarly regulate the latter risk demonstrating lack of rational thinking in their proposals.
I would strongly urge anyone considering writing such Bills to understand the difference between the two situations and evidence that in their words.
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