Far worse, they claimed, would be to exclude trans women from women’s sports because it would hurt all women. “It invites gender policing that could subject any woman to invasive tests and accusations of being ‘too masculine’ or ‘too good’ at their sport to be a ‘real’ woman.”
Iirc, there was a time they did tests to be assured female competitors were female. I thought I heard Sharon Davies discuss it. I think many female athletes, particularly those that rely on these events for there future prospects would be happier to be tested than to lose to a male.
ACLU is too heavily reliant on the words ‘harmful to all’. It shows they are completely detached from what females actually think. They allude to it here too.
Efforts to exclude subsets of girls from sports can undermine team unity.
Ahh. Yes.... no mention that it ‘can’ also go the other way.
This is simply a poorly written propaganda piece appealing to the kindness of others to damp down their own pain at losing to a transgirl to make that transgirl’s benefit, in esteem and maybe financially etc.
Team unity.... right... like Mouncey’s teams response to them wanting to shower with them.
The science is there and is proven. I know more research is being done, but what we already have shows there is little expectation it will be different. Frankly, I would be suspicious now of any research proving a different outcome because there is so much riding on it politically.
How does a scientist ensure the transitioned person is training and competing at the true top of their performance capacity still? Even Harper acknowledged intentional body reshaping influenced transwomen’s performance outcomes.
The ACLU is set on harming women.