Trans girl winning every race at primary sports day

Please read the studies that have been linked to this thread.

Boys have a competitive advantage. From 6 years old.

I've never heard of a sex segregated primary school sports day before.

I think the single sex race is odd as our primary school is all mixed races. Some of the girls beat the boys and visa versa. I’ve not really seen a massive difference in their abilities yet. Maybe more at year 5/6 but my child hasn’t reached that age yet.

I think it’s hard to put it all down to someone being biological male in a female race as they would have a natural ability too and sounds like they would win the male races too.

i am completely torn if I would say anything

But these races weren’t supposed to be mixed. The school had already split them into boys races and girls races. Then because one boy said so all the girls have to move over. Nope.

It matters to OPs daughter, and the other girls in the races now

I would withdraw my child from any school that allowed this.

If my child was at that sports day I'd have taken them out and gone home. Not a chance I'd let them think this was normal or acceptable.

So you think your because your son isn’t going to be able to win, that girls should have to accept that they lost to a boy if a boy wins their race? Because your school chooses to ignore the science and just have mixed races?

Sounds more like your ‘I’m alright Jack’ attitude than an evidence backed argument.

It absolutely is ‘a thing’.

Oh yeah. This is you!

Telling parent who would make sure girls have fair competition, who do the work in understanding the science, that they would be bitching and whining.

Nice.

Isn’t that up to you as a parent to be ‘having a word’ with your own school? Seriously? Why the fuck should anyone do your job of making sure girls in your child’s school have fair competition ? why isn’t it your job?

All of which is completely irrelevant unless the races were mixed sex.
Assuming you work in a school, you should be intelligent enough to know that sex is immutable and that single sex sport is important for fairness, safety and dignity. Would the girls in your school also be happy having to share their toilets with a boy or would they have been told by the adults to ‘be kind’ to a boy who is being manipulated by the adults around him to believe he can change sex? Ie lied to?

No. This is a fallacy.

When you look at the data, any girl winning a race against a boy over 6 years old should be considered even more exceptional than the boys in the race.

Your argument is like stating that if a bike with a motor doesn’t win the Tour de France, bikes with motors have no advantage. Do you really think that if a bike with a motor doesn’t win against bikes without motors that the one with a motor has no advantage?

Have a word with 90% of schools and sports clubs then 🤷‍♀️
My son is 10 and very small for his age and there are several girls in his class who are significantly taller and bigger than him (and clearly also have a physical advantage over him at sports day, which was evident when I watched the races).

I have posted about 7 studies on this very thread. From Denmark, Greece, Australia and several from the USA.

How many more would you like?

Why? Surely if all the boys are better than the girls due to sex differences then the girls would be horribly disadvantaged in mixed races too and would never win?

There are links to studies posted on this thread already. Please read them. You are misinformed.

Even from 6 years old male athletes have advantage over female athletes.

That’s one paper. There’s also evidence showing it doesn’t make a big difference. Most primary schools don’t have separate races.

As someone has said, there is a difference between having mixed sex races and having single sex races that allow the opposite sex to compete.

These aren’t mixed races though. They are single sex races, with one male allowed to join for nonsense reasons.

There is no such thing as a trans child.

No, that’s incorrect. Boys have a physical advantage before puberty.

womenssportspolicy.org/pre-puberty-male-female-children-show-marked-differences-in-sport-performance/

They’re 8. My kids primary school has all mixed races and the boys don’t win them all and nobody whines and bitches about them being mixed either.

But it still gives kids who win a thrill. Don’t take that away from little girls

An 8 year old boy is pre puberty so if there is a difference in sports performance at this age it might just be due to being good at running. Sex related differences emerge post puberty. I would have thought that most primary schools have mixed races for that reason. I am no fan of trans ideology but pre puberty sporting advantage is not a thing.

I definitely think it is worth raising. BUT in my experience, and you will know your school best, heads HATE it being suggested they are wrong. So I would wait. There won’t be any more Sports Days this year. Don’t make it too much about what just happened.

See what happens over the summer. The new EHRC guidance will be out. The government I think is due to finalise the schools guidance. It is possible this child may de-transition.

After the summer, backed by the new guidance, raise it as in issue with school in a forward looking manner ‘in light of all the changes in guidance, can I check what your policy is now on…..’

I’d send a few emails to no win no fee discrimination/ human rights lawyers….
I’m assuming this boy is using the girls toilets, and at his age he has no business in girls toilets. Make sure you mention Supreme Court and they’re acting illegally and breaching your daughters rights. Mention the sports day too.
I’d definitely file a complaint, but after you’ve found out whether or not a lawyer will take on your case