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Does your daughter play competitive sports? Has she been knocked down by a boy playing on a girl’s team?

dgfitz 2y ago
Nah that isn’t the problem. If that happened to my kid they would get back up and shove the other kid over. The problem is maintaining the integrity of sports and competition. Only an uneducated person would ever try to argue that “the best women’s college basketball team would beat the best men’s college basketball team” even 1 out of 100 times.
- tiahura 2y ago
  my kid they would get back up and shove the other kid over. Therein lies the rub. Some sure do, but most 13 year old girls don’t.
  - dgfitz 2y ago
    My 10 year old daughter would.
    - xhkkffbf 2y ago
      Wait until the hormones kick in. Personalities change.
      - dgfitz 2y ago
        What is your point? Puberty is a thing? No kidding. I choose to believe that how I rear my children has a larger affect on their psyche than hormones.
spamizbad 2y ago
as a parent of a child athlete this is always a silly argument. Kids in sports get knocked down all the time! Sometimes pretty hard! I feel like people who clutch their pearls on this stuff either don’t have kids, don’t have kids in sports, or aren’t the parent who actually shows up to the games.
giraffe_lady 2y ago
Has yours? As far as I can tell there are no trans student athletes in my state at any age or competitiveness level. There are several active anti-trans organizations that consider this an issue but no specific cases of it locally for me to assess or be affected by.
fireflash38 2y ago
Amusingly, in my experience, it was the girls in coed soccer that were doing the knocking down. For a few seasons, they were bigger than the boys, and they could more easily use their hips to check people off the ball without drawing fouls.
- lupusreal 2y ago
  True, girls hit puberty first and for a few years outperformed boys in athletics. That was my personal experience in a coed sport.

Nah that isn’t the problem. If that happened to my kid they would get back up and shove the other kid over. The problem is maintaining the integrity of sports and competition. Only an uneducated person would ever try to argue that “the best women’s college basketball team would beat the best men’s college basketball team” even 1 out of 100 times.

tiahura 2y ago
my kid they would get back up and shove the other kid over. Therein lies the rub. Some sure do, but most 13 year old girls don’t.
- dgfitz 2y ago
  My 10 year old daughter would.
  - xhkkffbf 2y ago
    Wait until the hormones kick in. Personalities change.
    - dgfitz 2y ago
      What is your point? Puberty is a thing? No kidding. I choose to believe that how I rear my children has a larger affect on their psyche than hormones.

spamizbad 2y ago

as a parent of a child athlete this is always a silly argument. Kids in sports get knocked down all the time! Sometimes pretty hard! I feel like people who clutch their pearls on this stuff either don’t have kids, don’t have kids in sports, or aren’t the parent who actually shows up to the games.

giraffe_lady 2y ago

Has yours? As far as I can tell there are no trans student athletes in my state at any age or competitiveness level. There are several active anti-trans organizations that consider this an issue but no specific cases of it locally for me to assess or be affected by.

fireflash38 2y ago

Amusingly, in my experience, it was the girls in coed soccer that were doing the knocking down. For a few seasons, they were bigger than the boys, and they could more easily use their hips to check people off the ball without drawing fouls.

lupusreal 2y ago
True, girls hit puberty first and for a few years outperformed boys in athletics. That was my personal experience in a coed sport.