YABVVVU It’s roller skating and I grew up as a figure skater who still skates in the adult category so I think I have a good insight into the physics and demands on the body.
Male skaters perform more rotations than most females because their bodies allow them to and most women’s bodies don’t, after puberty. The likes of Trusova who are able to perform quads are only able to do that because they have prepubescent type bodies and perhaps dangerously low body weights.
Skaters of this boys age regularly train from 5am until school starts and after school, weekends, throughout school holidays and at HUGE cost to their families and massive sacrifice to themselves and their siblings and parents. They often go without a social life, boyfriends/girlfriends as they get older, holidays and some are homeschooled and/or put university on hold for their skating career.
Biological males have, not a slight advantage, but a massive physical advantage as skaters due to their strength and testosterone levels which make them better athletes. It is 100% unfair to rob biological females of the equal and fair chance to win so that a biological male can compete in the wrong category. The damage and hurt feelings are equal.
You have no regard for the little biological females feelings but for the biological male with long hair wearing makeup and a dress you feel the rule book should be torn up? The message sent to the young biological females is that their hard work and training means nothing at all because a male can come in and take any victory for himself because he has a physical advantage that the females cannot possibly have.
Also, given the country’s cultural background there is a quite a large chance that this child is being encouraged to be a trans girl rather than an “effeminate” gay male because homosexuality is still not widely accepted.
You say the child “looks like a girl”. That’s because he is prepubescent, has a long feminine hairstyle and is wearing pretty clothes and makeup. The fact remains that the child is not a biological girl, the child has a penis and testes and is hormonally and chromosomally male, not female. If I chopped all my hair off and wore men’s clothes today that wouldn’t make me a man. This is something most of us learned as toddlers!
I have post and pre-op transgender friends and colleagues and accept them just as they are. THEY are not in support of children transitioning and certainly not of the use of hormone blockers. I am absolutely opposed to the transitioning of children because I care for children and do not think they have the capacity to make permanent, life changing decisions about their bodies when their brains and emotional intelligence haven’t had a chance to fully develop.
This child should be allowed to wear what they want and compete against children who are biologically the same as them. I’d fully support a trans girl and trans boy category.
Your allusion to Rosa Parkes was deeply offensive.