big bop wrote:
No. I have 2 daughters running D1. They have never been asked in high school or college what sex they were born as. A high school coach would be fired on the spot if he told a college coach that a female former runner of his may have once had male sex organs. He had no way to know that nor does the college coach. There are many children who have been raised as females. Sometimes it is because the parents wanted a daughter. Sometimes it is due to a botched circumcision. Sometimes it is because the 5 years old kid wanted to be female. Some of the situations resulted in no surgery while others did. You are always on the incorrect side of the facts.
There are some rare persons who are XY who have been raised female and enrolled in school as females, such as those with CAIS. Their privacy should be protected. But I don't think it's true as you claim that "there are many (male) children who have been raised as females." Can you provide some evidence? XY DSDs are very rare, and the custom of adults encouraging children to "identify as" the opposite sex is a phenomenon of the current century.
As for this happening in cases of botched circumcision, the famous case in which that occurred - David Reimer - ended in disaster and suicide, and is considered a prime example of medical child abuse by a twisted madman and pedophile, John Money.
More to the point: school administrators, athletic administrators and coaches are hardly all in the dark about the sex of their students and student-athletes as you seem to think.
If you recall enrolling your kids for school, surely you remember having to supply certified copies of their birth certificates. This is a customary requirement in pretty much all the USA. Each child's sex thus becomes part of their permanent school records that follows them everywhere.
When your daughters applied to college, they would have had to supply one or several official documents as proof of their identity showing information that includes their DOB, place of birth and sex - such as a passport; another kind of photo ID such as a driver's license or military ID; or a certified copy of their birth certificate along with, say, a SS card. Many schools require such forms of ID to register for classes each semester too.
I had to supply BCs for various competitive sports programs my kids participated in during childhood and adolescence too. Because in sports it's not just sex that matters, it's age/DOB. Lots of 13 and 14 year olds have tried to pose as 11 or 12 for Little League Baseball, for example.
In the US, it's also customary in most jurisdictions for kids growing up to have to get annual checkups with a licensed HCP in order to attend school and for the HCPs to fill out a standard form that has a check box for sex. To be cleared for scholastic (and other) sports, students usually have to provide a form filled out by a HCP saying they have had a full physical and are healthy enough to do sports. Those forms include a notation of the student's sex. This is usually for the wellbeing of the young athletes, and to satisfy schools' (or other sports orgs') liability insurance policies.
For girls and young women, a full physical includes a visit to and exam by a gynecologist. In the US, most girls start seeing a gynecologist once a year or so in their mid teens. I can't imagine any D1 school doesn't make sure that their female athletes are in good overall health, including gynecological health. Gynecologists often need to be consulted when female athletes have problems involving the pelvis and pelvic nerves.
Also, whenever a female person over age 10 or so sees a HCP for any reason totally unrelated to gynecology - such as a broken arm or sinus infection - one of the first questions the HCPs always ask is: When was your last period? And is it possible you might be pregnant? Any team doctor, nurse or other sports-affiliated HCP such as a physio will ask this right off the bat of female athletes when assessing or treating them because so much hinges on it.
The bodily changes that occur over the course of the monthly menstrual cycle and management of periods, menstrual irregularities and menstrual health consequences play a big role in the lives of most female athletes. These sorts of factors affect training schedules, diet and performance in competition. The menstrual cycle has to be tracked because female athletes are more prone to injuries at certain points in their cycles, and because when a teen girl or woman develops health problems, disruptions in her cycle are often the first sign. Moreover, for female athletes who are sexually active, choosing the best methods of contraception, dealing with the unwanted effects of those methods, and coping with pregnancy when it occurs are major issues too. It's worrying to think that there are D1 coaches working with female athletes who are oblivious of this.
It's even more alarming to think that coaches in D1 schools working with female athletes would not be aware of all the thousands of ways in which the anatomy, physiology, body movements and sports performance of male and female people are different. There is a vast literature about the difference in male and female kinematics in running alone.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbioe.2021.657357/full