There are interesting and difficult questions about trans athletes in sports, and then there is whatever Letsrun posted this morning about a 15-year-old trans child trying to compete in her local track meet. As an initial matter, it doesn't take moral courage to single out a trans child trying to compete in her school track meet ("props to these middle school girls"). It's worse to highlight a NY Post article excoriating a trans CHILD for committing the crime of participating in sports.
Most of these children are not "boys trying to game the system," which seems to be your editorial perspective (and DEFINITELY the New York Post's), but rather adolescents going through a life-changing transition who happen to, when they're not busy being bullied or killed in a hs bathroom, want to compete in sports. So rather than cheering on a some hs girls who are ostracizing another student because they're salty that they won't win their local track meet, do just a tiny bit better.
Anyway, I canceled my Supporter's Club subscription. Before everyone chimes in, yes I know you don't care. But I wanted to articulate why in the mild hopes that RoJo/WeJo/Gault learn to bring a bit more sophistication and empathy to their analysis. Life isn't just who won a middle school shotput competition. And in your eagerness to display how Seriously You Take Sports, you are edging into a world of anti-trans hate that will debase you, and the integrity of your outfit.
