Why wouldn’t they?
Just because you and others who believe in the primacy of gender identity over sex think males who've adopted a trans a gender identity don't belong in boys' and men's sports - and they shouldn't be using loos and locker rooms appropriate for their sex along with other blokes, either - it doesn’t mean everyone else feels that way.
In fact, if the experience of elite men’s soccer player Jonny Saelua is any indication, you might well be in the minority in believing that boys' and men's sports and spaces are no place for blokes who've adoped a trans, non-binary, genderfluid, genderqueer or other special gender identity different to their sex.
Saelua, born in 1988, is a popular international footballer who played center-back on the American Samoa men’s national soccer team for nearly 20 years, and now plays on a leading men’s teams in the top division of American Samoa’s senior league. He’s worked as a coach for American Samoan national boys’ team too.
Saelua is also a fa’afafine, a “feminine” male who “feels he is a woman” and lives “in the way of a woman.”
On top of that, Saelua is openly gay.
Saelua first began playing boys’ soccer competitively as an 11-year-old in 1999. Three years later he was drafted to the men’s national team at age 14, setting a record for being the youngest player at that level.
According to Wikipedia,
Saelua plays in full make-up whenever she [sic] takes to the football field.
known for crunching tackles [Saelua] is described as a defender who "takes no prisoners".
By Saelua's own account, all through his long career in boys’ and men’s soccer, he's always been accepted and treated well by his teammates and the other boys and men in the sport.
From a NY Times article about Saelua published in November, 2011:
In an immensely popular sport that is still encountering episodes of racism in any number of spots on the globe, it is noteworthy that Saelua has been easily accepted by [his] teammates.
Saelua is part of the fa’afafine, biological males who identify themselves as a third sex in Polynesian culture. Fa’afafine means “to be a woman” in Samoan.
“To be fa’afafine you have to be Samoan, born a man, feel you are a woman, be sexually attracted to males and, importantly, proud to be called and labeled fa’afafine,” Su’a said.
On Tuesday, the 23-year-old Saelua played a key role in American Samoa’s 2-1 victory against Tonga in a 2014 World Cup qualifier.
It was American Samoa’s first victory in international soccer, ending a 30-game losing streak in which it had been outscored by 229-12. And Saelua apparently became the first transgender player to compete on a World Cup stage.
In the match against Tonga, Saelua provided an assist on one goal and made a 90th-minute goal-line clearance with American Samoa’s goalkeeper Nicky Salapu already beaten on the play.
“He’s like a brother to us and he’s like a sister to us,” Salapu said of Saelua.
[Saelua] began playing soccer at age 11, in private school. By age 14, he had risen to be an international player for American Samoa.
“I read somewhere that it was a record when I was drafted into the national team [at such a young age]” Saelua said. “I was reserve the whole tournament and I had to leave because I was still in high school.”
[He] added that the coach “ put me in for 10 minutes.”
But Saelua is now older, and integral to the team. When the American Samoa coach Thomas Rongen — who took the United States under-20 team to three World Cup finals and won the Major League Soccer title with D.C. United in 1999 — was hired three weeks ago, he promoted Saelua to the starting lineup for the first time.
“I just go out and play soccer as a soccer player,” Saelua said. “Not as transgender, not as a boy and not as a girl. Just as a soccer player.”
Back in 2011, Saelua told the New York Times that the other players on the men’s teams he’s played on have always
“made me feel like a part of them.. They don’t make me feel different because I am the way I am. t is what anybody needs to feel wanted within a team. That is why I always do my best. I can’t let them down.”
So my question to you is: why do you have such a problem with the prospect of members of your own sex like Saelua, CeCe Telfer, Becky Pepper Jackson and Parker Tirrell competing in men's and boys' sports; using men's and boys' loos, locker rooms, and showers; and bunking/being housed with other blokes?
Why can't you and other men who like to preach about "diversity and inclusion" - and are always wagging your fingers at girls and women, ordering us to "be kind" to the blokes you guys don't want in your own sports and spaces - ever put your own money where your big mouths are by stepping up to "be kind" to other members of your own sex like Saelua, Telfer, Jackson and Tirrell yourselves?
Why can't men and boys like you show an accepting, welcoming and " inclusionary" attitude to members of your own sex who say they are trans?