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[zanahoria]

US father pleads against bill that would ban trans daughter’s right to play sports

is this a fact? would the bill ban his daughter's right to play sport?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/17/missouri-father-trans-daughter-sports-teams-bill

No. His daughter can play on the team that matches her biological sex. If his daughter was born male (I assume this is the case), the child plays on the boys' team. If his child was born female, it's the girls' team. There is no ban on transgender children from playing sports.

No one is" silencing his child's spirit". As Delphinium20 said his child is free to play on the team matching the child's biological sex, and wear whatever clothes and have whatever haircut they wish. It is a pity the child's family spent so many years forcing the child into a gender stereotype.

There is also nothing to stop anyone from organising mixed volleyball, tennis and dance teams.

Difficult to understand why this man’s sexist, narrow approach to parenting is being held up as an example for others.

The bloke is entitled to argue his case, parents are partisan about their kids, it is the reporting that annoys me, the Guardian is helping him trample on other kids dreams and they are doing it by putting lies in the headlines.

Another round of complaints against the Guardian then.

Facts are scarce more like.

is this a fact? would the bill ban his daughter's right to play sport?

Of course it doesn't. It means they have to play against their own biological sex or in games that are mixed sex.

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The bloke is entitled to argue his case, parents are partisan about their kids

Did you watch what he said? He had forced his child to comply with his narrow gender expectations, and the reason he now accepts the behaviour is that he believes his child’s spirit is female?

He is entitled to express his opinion, but that doesn’t make it less sexist.

For years he ignored his child's preferences forcing them to have short hair, wear 'boys clothes' play with 'boys toys' and play on boys teams yet the trans lobby cheering this man on think he is the epitome of the perfect parent and we are the baddies.

Banned in the same sense that Geoff Capes is banned from entering the women's Olympic shot put competition. (Well, I say banned, but if he has a shave and calls himself Geraldine, who knows? In fact, drop the bit about having a shave.) It's all so disingenuous.

Nothing says toxic male entitlement than driving your male child to dominate weaker people to get ahead.

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The bloke is entitled to argue his case, parents are partisan about their kids, it is the reporting that annoys me, the Guardian is helping him trample on other kids dreams and they are doing it by putting lies in the headlines.

Very, very true but it's been a very long time since I anticipated unbiased, independent, accurate reporting from The Guardian.

Pity, I miss the recipes section and the wildlife photography.

If only we played sport with our spirits. Instead of, you know, our bodies.

Banned in the same sense that Geoff Capes is banned from entering the women's Olympic shot put competition

Imagine if Caitlyn had transitioned all those years ago