To the editor: The hassle to maintain transgender feminine athletes out of highschool sports activities is among the most hateful and vitriolic political initiatives in my lifetime (“Trans athletes face intense efforts to sideline them. These California teens are resisting,” Feb. 22).
There are maybe just a few dozen trans scholar athletes competing in California — out of greater than 800,000 in total. And out of these 800,000 highschool athletes, what number of are going to care about dropping a junior varsity volleyball recreation a 12 months from now, whether or not or not a trans participant participated?
Have the mother and father of those scholar athletes even mirrored for a second on this? Have they questioned why they don’t seem to be equally as impassioned towards transgender boys competing in boys’ sports activities? Is it as a result of the one factor which may eclipse their transphobia is misogyny?
In fact, that leads me again to that previous saying concerning the intersection of teachers and politics: The brutality is so excessive as a result of the stakes are so low.
Ron Shinkman, Northridge
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To the editor: I don’t have any scientific research to cite. I simply have my very own observations to go on. In nursery faculty, I do not forget that the typical boy was taller, stronger and quicker than virtually any lady. That continued as much as the time of puberty. After puberty, the boys obtained even greater, stronger and quicker than the ladies.
At each stage of life, the ladies had been biologically totally different from the boys: typically shorter, slower and never as muscular on common. There isn’t a method to erase the variations and have a good competitors between the sexes. Puberty blockers, testosterone-reducing medicine or surgical transitioning is not going to totally erase the benefits inherent in an athlete who was born male.
We don’t have 5-year-olds compete towards highschool college students in sports activities and I don’t want to elucidate why. Having athletes who had been born male compete in women’ sports activities is simply as unfair. We might simply clear up this by making an “open” class for anybody to play in.
James Wilterdink, Chula Vista
