“No one, whether you’re trans or not, wants the federal government digging through your identifiable patient information and figuring out what they like and don’t like,” Hack said. “It’s an absolute overreach, and people are really scared.”
Asked whether Hack’s priorities were measures he could support, Platner agreed. “Yes, indeed. They most certainly do,” he said.
Democrats want to adopt positions that they can win on. It’s better to have uniform laws since teams from different schools compete against each other.
What evidence do you have, beyond your personal biases, that, “we are going supersede the judgement of independent organizations in order to dictate policies on trans athletes to them,” is a winning position?
Athletic leagues don’t operate on a school-by-school basis. There are county, state, and national leagues that are already setting the rules by which schools compete. The NFHS and NCAA, for example, already made the, “uniform laws,” you want. Both organizations have already been forced to change their rules on trans athletes in certain states to accommodate anti-trans legislation, and the NCAA changed their national rules to comply with a (probably unlawful) executive order.
This is what’s so infuriating about your position. You act as though you’re just asking for the government to make rules for everyone to follow, but you’re actually asking for the government to overrule the rules you don’t like.
Democrats can be favor of the government not making rules regarding transgender men participating in women’s sports, but they can be certain that Republicans will attack them on this.
From https://nypost.com/2025/01/19/us-news/nyt-poll-finds-majority-of-democrats-oppose-transgender-athletes-in-womens-sports/
A recent New York Times/Ipsos survey found the vast majority of Americans, including a majority of Democrats, don’t think transgender athletes should be permitted to compete in women’s sports.
“Thinking about transgender female athletes — meaning athletes who were male at birth but who currently identify as female — do you think they should or should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports?” the survey asked.
Of the 2,128 people who participated, 79% said biological males who identify as women should not be allowed to participate in women’s sports.
Yeah, and a plurality of the people in that study said they don’t want the federal government making the rules for trans athletes:
Next time, find an actual analysis of the study instead of letting a right-wing rag like the post tell you the parts you want to hear.
But in a debate, the Republican candidate will certainly ask, “Do you believe men who are transgender should participate in women’s sports?”
Then they can say, “If there is data that proves trans athletes have a competitive advantage, then having them play in the same league as cis athletes would be unfair, but I trust athletic leagues and school districts to make that determination, and not politicians with ideological agendas.”
Like, seriously, this is your argument? The Democrats need to support trans athlete bans, even though a plurality of Americans don’t want them to do that, because a Republican might ask a difficult question? Are tou serious?
It’s up to science to determine whether trans athletes have a competitive advantage.
Yeah, where did you think the, “data that proves trans athletes have a competitive advantage,” was going to come feom? Or it’s just up to science? Like, the abstract concept of science is going to set the rules for sports leagues? Or is there gonna need to be some authority on sports and athletics to enforce those rules? Some sort of athletic association? Anyway, if ypu think you parse words until I get frustrated and drop this, you are deeply underestimating how petty I am.
(Also, as I pointed out earlier in this thread, what little science there is on trans athletes has determined that transs athletes don’t have a competitive advantage,.so I guess you support including them!)
If males are superior to females in sports, then trans male athletes are superior to female athletes. From https://www.forbes.com/sites/kimelsesser/2026/03/26/what-makes-an-olympic-athlete-female-the-rules-just-changed-again/
The IOC says that biological males have an advantage in sport, and so the new rule was needed to protect competition in the female division. They claim there is a 10-12% male performance advantage in most running and swimming events, and a more than 20% performance advantage in most throwing and jumping events. And they claim the male advantage can be greater than 100% in events that involve explosive power, like in collision, lifting and punching sports.
The IOC attributes this advantage to men’s greater testosterone. They explain that men experience three significant testosterone peaks: in utero, in infancy and beginning in puberty through adulthood. This gives biological males “larger and stronger skeletal muscle and bone, larger and stronger hearts, larger lung size, more red blood cells, and lower body fat than females,” the IOC explains in their report. This gives men a large advantage in sports, especially those that rely on strength, power or endurance.