Quote Originally Posted by Eryn View Post
What about a short boy's desire to play basketball? He has just as much right to participate in an athletic program as any student yet he would be excluded from the boys' basketball team because his genetics rendered him short and excluded from the girls' team because his genetics include a Y chromosome. Girls, OTOH, have the right to participate in boys' athletic teams. This is an obvious inequity.

With barriers having been knocked down for females perhaps it is time to knock them down for males as well. We should end gender segregation of athletic teams and encourage everyone to participate by instituting non-gendered teams for various physical ability levels.
Eryn, VERY few girls play on boys teams after the age of 9. At 13 and over, its really rare. And height has never excluded anybody from any sports team. Isaiah Thomas might be 5'7", and he starts in the NBA. Dustin Pedroia is an MVP candidate in baseball every year, and he is the same height. Kim Mulkey started for a national champion basketball team at 5'2", etc. I was a short kid and could play any sport I wanted. Your analogy is just not the same thing. Boys do have more muscle mass, are generally stronger and faster, and allowing them to compete on a girls team is taking a sport away from a girl. Allowing laws like this hurt TG rights in my opinion, as they alienate people (mostly women) who see their daughters getting less opportunity to compete. It's wrong in my book, unless the TG girl is truly transitioning and is taking medications that will affect strength.