Texas Transgender Wrestler on Set to Win HIS Second Girls State Title

The problem here is Texas' assbackwards ways. You wanna be a dude? Compete with the dudes.

You don't wanna be a dude, but you still think you can compete with the dudes? Compete with the dudes.

The best will be crowned.

I agree that Texas is the issue. This is allowing someone who should be competing with others of the same gender identity and hormone makeup to compete with those who she has an unfair advantage over.

I thought taking testosterone was bad for you. Can I take it just to make me more manly? I'm a 30 year old man and I'm jealous of his new mustache.

If taking testosterone isn't bad for you, can we just dope up all the women athletes and call it a day?

mark, do you get off to this stuff?

Really Bro wrote:

I thought taking testosterone was bad for you. Can I take it just to make me more manly? I'm a 30 year old man and I'm jealous of his new mustache.

If taking testosterone isn't bad for you, can we just dope up all the women athletes and call it a day?

Taking supraphysiological doses of testosterone is bad for you. If you're a teenager who is having your estrogen and progesterone suppressed and taking amounts of testosterone that the average teenage boy has naturally, then no, it isn't bad for you.

He/she/ze/xe/it/zir is a doper, regardless of gender

Texas = problem wrote:

The problem here is Texas' assbackwards ways. You wanna be a dude? Compete with the dudes.

You don't wanna be a dude, but you still think you can compete with the dudes? Compete with the dudes.

The best will be crowned.

So if a boy wants to be a girl, he can compete with the girls and beat the crap out of them?

Just give the trannies their own category. In T&F we already did this, named it the 800m.

kkkk wrote:

Texas = problem wrote:

The problem here is Texas' assbackwards ways. You wanna be a dude? Compete with the dudes.

You don't wanna be a dude, but you still think you can compete with the dudes? Compete with the dudes.

The best will be crowned.

So if a boy wants to be a girl, he can compete with the girls and beat the crap out of them?

Just give the trannies their own category. In T&F we already did this, named it the 800m.

I would say Connecticut is even worse than Texas. Snowflakes in CT school sytems allow biological advantage as long as every one is competing.

They call me........hepcat wrote:

kkkk wrote:

So if a boy wants to be a girl, he can compete with the girls and beat the crap out of them?

Just give the trannies their own category. In T&F we already did this, named it the 800m.

I would say Connecticut is even worse than Texas. Snowflakes in CT school sytems allow biological advantage as long as every one is competing.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/06/06/transgender-freshman-sprinter-born-a-male-wins-two-girls-state-championships

It has a beard! Ahh!

Its a tough situation with a couple layers:

On one hand, you want athletes to feel comfortable and have fun. Forcing female-to-male or male-to-female athletes to compete with their birth gender might make them a "spectacle" and highlight their difference. Every race would be a reminder that the world doesn't consider them a "real" woman or man.

On the other hand, it gives some athletes distinct advantages. Testosterone IS a performance enhancer. FTM athletes have an advantage if they compete as the gender they identify as because of the medications they are taking to transition. Same if a man transitions to a woman, they will simply be stronger and faster if they compete against biological women. It provides an unfair advantage, plain and simple

Personally, I think since it affects a wider population when athletes are granted the performance advantage. If only 1-in-so many kids are transgender, and even fewer of those students compete in athletics, it affects far more non-transgender athletes than transgender athletes. I think you should have to compete in whichever gender does not grant you an advantage. If you are a gender fluid female but not on testosterone, then you should be able to choose, but if you are MTF or a FTM and in transition then you should compete against the boys. Its the only way to ensure a fair race.

markschultz30 wrote:

What is the biggest problem with this? The fact that Texas law requires you to compete as your birth gender, or that the teen is allowed to take steroids and still compete among his/her peers?

Live and let live marky mark. If this doesn't directly affect you or family I don't understand why you care so much.