> Gender identity issues can be genuinely uncomfortable. Gender identity issues in sports can be extra uncomfortable. Maybe one side of the political spectrum i

> Gender identity issues can be genuinely uncomfortable. Gender identity issues in sports can be extra uncomfortable. Maybe one side of the political spectrum is over the top in disliking trans rights, but perhaps the other side should acknowledge that having people with penises in women’s locker rooms would make a lot of people extremely uncomfortable. The concern in sports was never about "penises in women's locker rooms". It was always about the participation of athletes who had gone through a male puberty in women's sports categories. That's why for example athletes like Caster Semenya and Imane khelif were caught in that, to name two recent and famous cases, who are intersex and not transgendered. I find it extremely distasteful to speculate about strangers' genitals (unless it's absolutely necessary) but nobody ever accused those two athletes of introducing "penises in the women's locker rooms". The outrage on social media absolutely was all about "penises in women's locker rooms" or in female toilets etc, but that's not where informed debate normally takes place. Unfortunately it seems that social media are increasingly the space where decisions are taken collectively. Read here about intersex athletes at the Olympics, as an introduction to the informed debate I mentioned above. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_verification_and_intersex_athletes_at_the_Olympic_Games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_verification_and_intersex_...