#transgender sports

[crossdreamers]

Female transgender athletes at a disadvantage study claims

A study funded by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has revealed that transgender female athletes face physical disadvantages compared to cisgender women across various measures.

This research indicates that physically active transgender women exhibit poorer performance in specific cardiovascular tests and possess less lower-body strength than their cisgender counterparts.

Contrary to earlier assertions, the study conducted by researchers at the University of Brighton also concludes that the bone density of transgender women is comparable to that of cisgender women, a factor closely linked to muscle strength.

The research paper says that :

"While longitudinal transitioning studies of transgender athletes are urgently needed, these results should caution against precautionary bans and sport eligibility exclusions that are not based on sport-specific (or sport-relevant) research."

Yahoo! Sports has more.

The study can be found here: Yannis P. Pitsiladis et al: Strength, power and aerobic capacity of transgender athletes: a cross-sectional study

Photo by Gabriel Sanchez on Unsplash.

#transgender #trans #lgbt #lgbtqa #queer #nonbinary #transgender athletes #transgender sports #sports #health #transphobia

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Christopher Wiggins at The Advocate:

A federal appeals court has ruled that transgender students in West Virginia may play on sports teams that align with their gender identity. In a landmark decision on Tuesday, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against a West Virginia law that prohibited transgender girls from participating in girls’ sports teams, deeming it a violation of Title IX, which bars sex-based discrimination in education. The Associated Press reports that this ruling impacts the case of 13-year-old Becky Pepper Jackson, who has identified as a girl since the third grade and is undergoing puberty-blocking treatment.

According to the AP, in February 2023, an interim court decision prevented the state from barring Jackson from her middle school track and field team under this law. Judge Toby Heytens, in his ruling, emphasized that the so-called choice between not playing sports or playing on boys’ teams offered no genuine option. “B.P.J. has been recognized by her community and legally changed her name, and West Virginia has issued a birth certificate listing her sex as female,” Heytens wrote, supporting the view that denying her participation in girls’ teams was discriminatory. Lambda Legal, representing Becky, highlighted the discriminatory nature of the law. “West Virginia’s effort to ban one 13-year-old transgender girl from joining her teammates on the middle school cross country and track team was singling out Becky for disparate treatment because of her sex,” said Lambda Legal staff attorney Sruti Swaminathan. “That’s discrimination, pure and simple, and we applaud the court for arriving at this just decision,” she added.

[...] The ruling reflects broader national debates and legal battles over transgender rights in sports, healthcare, and public accommodations. This decision aligns West Virginia with states like Arizona, Idaho, and Utah, where similar bans have been temporarily blocked, while states like Alabama and Texas continue to enforce such prohibitions. The legal victory in West Virginia may influence other ongoing legal challenges across the United States. More than two dozen states have enacted similar laws targeting transgender participation in sports, and this ruling could serve as a precedent, potentially prompting reevaluation of these laws under Title IX considerations. Advocacy groups and civil rights lawyers are closely monitoring these developments, hopeful that the tide may turn in favor of inclusivity and equal rights for transgender athletes at the school level.

The 4th Circuit Court ruled in B.P.J. v. West Virginia that the state of West Virginia cannot ban trans students from playing on teams aligned with their gender identity, deeming the state's law (HB3293) on banning trans athletes a violation of Title IX.

#West Virginia #Transgender Sports #Transgender #4th Circuit Court #Title IX #B.P.J. v. West Virginia #Lambda Legal #ACLU #Toby Heytens #LGBTQ+ #West Virginia HB3293

[justinssportscorner]

Katie Barnes at ESPN.com:

CLEVELAND -- South Carolina women's basketball coach Dawn Staley said Saturday that she believes transgender athletes should be allowed to compete in women's sports. During a news conference a day after her No. 1 Gamecocks beat NC State in the Final Four to advance to the national championship game against Iowa, the legendary coach was asked for her opinion on the issue. "I'm of the opinion that if you're a woman, you should play," Staley said. "If you consider yourself a woman and you want to play sports, or vice versa, you should be able to play." Hours later, Iowa coach Lisa Bluder was asked the same question. "I understand it's a topic that people are interested in," Bluder said. "But today my focus is on the game tomorrow, my players. It's an important game we have tomorrow, and that's what I want to be here to talk about. But I know it's an important issue for another time." The debate over whether transgender athletes should be allowed to compete in accordance with their gender identity has grown heated in statehouses, courthouses, sport governing bodies and the court of public opinion over the past four years.

The NCAA first adopted a policy governing transgender athlete participation in 2010, providing a pathway to participation for transgender women and men in accordance with their gender identities. It amended its policy on Jan. 19, 2022 to be sport-specific as determined by each sport's national governing body, international federation or the 2015 Olympic standard. That policy change came amid controversy surrounding University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, a transgender woman who was competing in women's swimming and won a national championship in the 500-yard freestyle. The NCAA currently requires transgender women wanting to compete in women's sports to submit documentation, including testosterone levels, to the NCAA Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports. The committee's medical review panel determines eligibility.

South Carolina Gamecocks women's college basketball coach Dawn Staley is 100% correct: trans women should be able to play in women's sports competitions (and vice-versa for trans men in men's sports). 🏳️‍⚧️

#Dawn Staley #South Carolina Gamecocks #2024 Women's March Madness Tournament #Women's Sports #Women's College Basketball #Women's March Madness Tournament #Transgender Sports #Transgender #LGBTQ+ #Iowa Hawkeyes #Lisa Bluders

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Then:

"Thank you to the LGBT community! I will fight for you while Hilary brings in more people that will threaten your freedoms and beliefs." - Donald J. Trump, January 14, 2016

Now:

Donald Trump denounced LGBTQ equality in a speech at the America First Policy Institute’s first annual summit yesterday as he signaled his intent to run again in 2024.

During the speech, he denounced the “sexualization of minor children” while discussing LGBTQ people.

“Federal, state, and local government should aggressively enforce existing statutes to stop the perverted sexualization of minor children,” he said. “You have the statutes.”

The “sexualization of children” is a phrase that the right has been using this past year to refer to any discussion of LGBTQ identities and children. The expression has been applied discussing LGBTQ people in school or having LGBTQ books like And Tango Makes Three – which is about a baby penguin with two dads – available in school libraries.

It also gets used when supportive parents who don’t force their children to follow gender rules around clothing, or parents who support their transgender kids’ identities.

Trump didn’t specify what statutes exist that prevent kids from reading about gay penguins or teens from accessing life-saving health care.

“The society that refuses to protect its children is a society that soon will not be able to protect anybody,” Trump said. “This is a hallmark of cultural and social decay against which we should fight back very hard and very soon we don’t have time to wait years to do this.”

Trump then admitted he didn’t even know what he was talking about.

“The sickos who are pushing sexual content in kindergartens or providing puberty blockers to young children who have no idea what a puberty blocker is – neither do I, by the way, neither do most of the people in the audience as you smile,” he said. While he was at least honest about not knowing anything about health care for transgender youth, he took a strong stance against it.

“Let’s just say they’re not good – are not just engaged in acts of depravity in many cases they are breaking the law and they should be held fully accountable,” he said.

He then went on an ad libbed rant against transgender women playing sports.

“By the way, we should not allow men to play in women’s sports. So crazy,” he said.

He got loud applause from the audience for that line, even though it’s not something that anyone is advocating.

Trump proceeded to tell a surrealist version of the story of University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas.

He said that he knew a woman – a “beautiful woman” whose name he didn’t give – who wanted to break an unspecified world record in swimming. She looked on one side of her in the pool, he recounted, and saw women. On the other side there was “somebody with a man’s body, that’s what they do, they call it.”

“You know the guy, he was named ‘female athlete of the year.’ Did you know that? It’s true!” he said.

“This guy is massive, he’s got a wingspan, he’s got arms that are 30 feet long,” he said, misgendering Thomas. “She was seriously injured during the meet because he swam so fast that he gave her major wind burn as he went by. She didn’t break the record but he broke the record that day. You know what the number was? 38 seconds. So she wanted to break it by an eighth of a second and he broke it by 38 seconds.”

Trump was probably referring to Thomas, but he got a lot wrong in his story. Thomas did not set any record by 38 seconds; she won a long-distance race by 38 seconds, which is normal in an over 15-minute-long race. Thomas was not named “female athlete of the year”; she was nominated for NCAA Woman of the Year and did not get the title. Thomas does not have 30-foot-long arms and didn’t give anyone “wind burn.”

Then Trump told an even more fantastical story about a transgender weightlifter named “Alice” who, he claimed, broke the women’s world record in clean & jerk, which he said was 218 pounds. “I can’t lift it,” he said, as if anyone expected a doughy, unathletic 76-year-old man to be able to lift as much as women competing in the Olympics for weightlifting.

He said that Alice broke the record that was in place for years without much effort and that she could have lifted more.

Internet searches didn’t turn up anyone who fits Trump’s description. The world record for women in clean & jerk is 411 pounds, set by Chinese lifter Li Wenwen in 2021.

“It’s so disrespectful to women,” Trump said immediately after mocking two women for several minutes in front of the crowd. “And they say it’s politically incorrect, it’s so disrespectful.”

In the speech, Trump suggested that he’s running for president in 2024.

“I ran the first time and I won. Then I ran a second time and I did much better. We got millions and millions more votes,” he said. “We may just have to do it again.”

#us politics #news #2022 #donald trump #2024 election #America First Policy Institute #lgbtqia+ rights #lgbtqia+ #republican homophobia #homophobia #fuck homophobia #transgender #trans #transgender pride #trans rights #trans sports #transgender sports #lia thomas #don't say gay bill #lgbtqia+ representation #pedojacketing #puberty blockers #trans healthcare #equal rights #lgbtq nation #YouTube #video #2016 #quotes

[razgrizgirl]

Yall fckin scared of us or something? ;)

#transgender #transgender sports #lgbt memes #transgender women

[transparenttriumphzombie]

I’m against FINA Sport Body ruling banning Transgender Athletes for Their Swimming events.  As Transgender Woman myself I’m for Transgender Athletes playing Sports. I’m for Transgender Woman playing on Woman Sport Teams.  

#transgender #trans sports #transgender athletes #transgender sports #transgender woman in sports

[alittlemoth]

I am uneducated in this topic so take all of my takes with a grain of salt.

My knee jerk reaction to the argument trans women shouldn't be able to play in women's sports because on average men are stronger than women is to deny it. However on average biological males are stronger than biological females. So it is a valid concern when I'm objectively looking at it.

However my second reaction is to not say that because I don't want to risk giving transphobes an inch of validity to use even though sports is not the biggest human rights issue trans people are dealing with.

For some sports raw strength isn't that helpful. Like in ping pong you can't just hit it as hard as you can to win but for others it is vital.

So wouldn't a very easy solution at the very least temporarily, be mixed gender teams? Like it worked in gym class why not now? It would also give a large sample size of people with similar skill sets doing the same tasks to see what variables can influence performance. So it'll be easier to tell if the strength gap is actually that big of a deal or if they're put up against people stronger than them that it will force them to work harder shortening the gap.

At the very least this would be a temporary solution to make sure trans folk can play sports without being surrounded by people they don't identify as or have to use a locker room that they don't feel safe in.

Am I missing something? Is this a good solution or am I just being a cis woman who doesn't quite understand?

#transgender sports #transgender #question for everyone #I legitimately don't understand why this is not being done at least temporarily #I'm sorry if this is a dumb question but I don't quite understand why this isn't the solution everyone's going for

[themfp1]

Riley Gaines Claps Back at State Senator Who Suggested She’s a ‘Sore Loser’

By: Madeline Leesman On Monday, former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines clapped back at a Nebraska state senator who suggested she was a “sore loser” for fighting to keep “transgender” males out of women’s sports. Over the weekend, Gaines, who competed and tied with transgender athletes like Will “Lia” Thomas last year, spoke to more than 1,000 people in Nebraska about the importance of keeping out of…

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#TRANSGENDER SPORTS

[doomdoomofdoom]

i believe the easiest solution to the 'trans people in competitive sports' ""debate"" is simply to stop separating competitions by sex/gender and start separating them by zodiac sign.

#a sagittarius would have an obvious advantage in archery #pisces in swimming?? hello??? #which zodiac has the upper hand in volleyball tho #shitpost #trans #transgender #queer #crimes against the gender convention #lgbtq #trans sports

[justinssportscorner]

John Russell at LGBTQ Nation:

A Utah dad was banned from his high school-aged daughter’s future junior varsity basketball games after he became belligerent at a recent game, alleging that a player on the opposing team was transgender. Jeff Haney, a spokesperson for Canyons School District, told The Salt Lake Tribune that at a January 19 game, the dad “was vocally challenging the eligibility of the player based on his perception of the student-athlete’s gender.” The man, whose name has not been disclosed, reportedly confronted the principals of both his daughter’s school and the opposing school, who assured him that every player on the court, including the 17-year-old girl in question, had met the Utah High School Athletics Association’s eligibility requirements to play. The Utah High School Athletics Association (UHSAA) requires student-athletes to provide a birth certificate verifying their gender and for trans students to prove that they have undergone at least one year of hormone therapy.

“I wasn’t born yesterday, I know that’s a boy and you better be able to prove yourself because I am going to the top,” the man insisted after the game, according to one principal.

Transphobic dad got handed a red card by being banned from his daughter's high school for taunting an opponent by falsely accusing an opposing player of being "trans."

See Also:

The Advocate: Utah parent accuses girl's basketball player of being trans, gets banned from games

#Utah #High School Basketball #High School Sports #Transgender #Transgender Sports #Transphobia #Canyons School District

[mysharona1987]

Pretty much everyone said this would happen. One ticked off parent can throw a tantrum and get any girl investigated because their kid didn’t win. Gross.

#Utah #transgender #news #sports #democrats #republicans #politics

[lunalucas-world]

Don’t be shy say hey to me 🤭🥰

#trans nsft #trans pride #mtf trans #trans woman #transfem #transgender #transgirl #transisbeautiful #transmasc #18+ content #trans community #transsexual #trans rights #trans man #classic cars #sports cars

[reasonsforhope]

"Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) has vetoed a Republican-led ban on transgender high school athletes, saying that such legislation would needlessly harm the mental well-being of trans youth and make the state less safe for LGBTQ+ people. State Republicans reportedly lack the votes to override his veto.

“This type of legislation, and the harmful rhetoric we get by pursuing it, harms LGBTQ Wisconsinites’ and kids’ mental health, emboldens anti-LGBTQ harassment, bullying, and violence, and threatens the safety and dignity of LGBTQ Wisconsinites, especially our LGBTQ kids,” Evers wrote in his veto message.

“I am vetoing this bill in its entirety because I object to codifying discrimination into state statute and the Wisconsin state legislature’s ongoing efforts to perpetuate hateful and discriminatory rhetoric and policies targeting LGBTQ Wisconsinites including our transgender and gender nonconforming kids…. I will veto any bill that makes Wisconsin a less safe, less inclusive, and less welcoming place for LGBTQ people and kids,” Evers added.

He vetoed the bill in a public ceremony while surrounded by trans advocates, Democratic lawmakers, the mayor of Madison and others, NBC News reported.

The bill would have required public, private, and independent charter schools to designate each team by the gender of its participants, and then require participants to play on teams matching the gender listed on their birth certificates.

The bill would have overruled current policies, established in 2015 by the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association, that allowed trans students to play on sports teams matching their gender identity as long as they provided a personal letter; supporting documentation from parents, teachers, and medical professionals; and proof of any gender-affirming care...

Last September [in 2023], Evers vetoed a Republican-led bill that would’ve banned gender-affirming medical care for minors."

-via LGBTQ Nation, April 2, 2024

#voting matters #tony evers #democrats #united states #us politics #transgender #trans issues #trans sports #trans kids #lgbtq #lgbtq issues #queer issues #trans positivity #lgbtq positivity #wisconsin #republicans #public schools #good news #hope

[probablyasocialecologist]

A report on transgender women athletes in elite sport has found that if UCI [Union Cycliste Internationale] rules are adhered to, there is currently no substantial evidence of any biological advantages for trans women competing in elite women’s sport.

It found there was little evidence that biomedical factors related to male puberty such as lung size, bone density and hip-to-knee joint angle predict an unfair advantage. But some evidence that social factors like nutrition, training and access to equipment do.

These are just some of the key findings listed in an 86-page report titled Transgender Women Athletes and Elite Sport: A Scientific Review, which was published in late 2022 and commissioned by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES), an ethical sport advocacy non-profit with a vision of fair, safe, accessible, and inclusive sport for everyone.

The inclusion of trans women in elite women's sport has been a hot button issue of late with high profile instances such as Emily Bridges' attempt to compete in the UK sparking concern and upset on all sides. While the inclusion of trans women has led to protests by those who worry that cis women (the term for women born anatomically female) are at a competitive disadvantage at some U.S. races.

However, the report concluded that "the fears that cis women need be protected from trans women in elite sport are unsubstantiated and misplaced.

"What threatens women’s elite sport, for cis and trans women, is not trans women, but is rather misogyny in the form of underfunding, non-parity in participation and leadership, inequitable sport space allocation/access, and a range of sporting opportunities not afforded to women (cis women and trans women) in equitable ways."

#biology #transgender #lgbt #sport #science

[crossdreamers]

Soccer superstar Megan Rapinoe expresses strong support for transgender athletes

In a recent Time cover story interview, Megan Rapinoe said  that she “absolutely” would accept a trans woman on the United States women's national soccer team.

The two-time defending soccer World Cup champion despises policies designed to keep transgender girls and women from playing on female sports teams:

“We as a country are trying to legislate away people’s full humanity... It’s particularly frustrating when women’s sports is weaponized ...Oh, now we care about fairness? Now we care about women’s sports? That’s total bullsh-t. And show me all the trans people who are nefariously taking advantage of being trans in sports. It’s just not happening...

“The most amazing thing about sports is that you play and you’re playing with other people, and you’re having fun and you’re being physically active. We’re putting this all through the lens of competition and winning. But we’re talking about people’s lives. That’s where we have to start.”

According to Time Rapinoe believes that questioning transgender participation in women’s sports, as Martina Navratilova and ESPN anchor Sage Steele have done, does harm that reaches far beyond the athletic field:

“I don’t want to mince words about it. Dave Chappelle making jokes about trans people directly leads to violence, whether it’s verbal or otherwise, against trans people. When Martina or Sage or whoever are talking about this, people aren’t hearing it just in the context of elite sports. They’re saying, ‘The rest of my life, this is how I’m going to treat trans people.’”

Would Rapinoe embrace a transgender woman on the U.S. women’s soccer team, even if that woman took the place of someone assigned female at birth? Her answer: 

 “Absolutely. You’re taking a ‘real’ woman’s place,’ that’s the part of the argument that’s still extremely transphobic. I see trans women as real women. What you’re saying automatically in the argument—you’re sort of telling on yourself already—is you don’t believe these people are women. Therefore, they’re taking the other spot. I don’t feel that way.”

Read the whole Time article here.

See also: US soccer star Megan Rapinoe is supporting trans people’s participation in sports 100% US Soccer Star: Bills to Ban Transgender Kids from Sports Try to Solve a Problem that Doesn’t Exist

#trans #transgender #politics #lgbt #lgbtqa #lesbian #queer #transphobia #transgender athletes #lgbtqia #soccer #sports

[myfriendgoo94]

Going out bowling with @gwenplus and @sweetpuddincake 😎

#my fave almost sport! #it me! #cool to reblog #transgender #trans #mtf trans #trans femme #girlslikeus #transisbeautiful #transisbetter #this is what trans looks like #tgirlselfie #trans girl #trans girls #trans woman