The largest college sports governing body in the country made the change following President Trump’s executive order banning trans girls from girls’ school sports.
Well the less than 10 trans athletes in the NCAA must be crushed.
For those that say trans people should just have their own league, there aren’t enough trans athletes to do that. A tiny tiny sliver of trans people are athletes and we are already only 1.5 million people. Having our own league guarantees trans people can’t be athletes cause there’s not enough people or funding for a whole league. Women’s leagues already struggle with funding and women are the majority in the country.
Plus does trans people having their own league mean trans men and women play against each other because that doesn’t seem fair since they both have similar level of athletic ability as their cis counterparts. So then do we the separate it further into trans men and trans women leagues? Because that definitely won’t get enough funding for two brand new leagues across all education linked and professional sports.
Either, trans people can participate against their cis counterparts because there’s plenty of evidence to show they fall in line with them when it comes to athletic ability, or you say no trans people can ever ever play sports. That’s it.
I don’t think there’s going to be a good solution to this unless we stop segregating sports by gender entirely, but that of course brings additional problems.
There will be sports with primarily one gender at the top tier and those who don’t cut it will end up in a second, less prestigious tier although many people already view womens leagues as beneath men’s leagues.
Some men will (wrongly) will be embarrassed to be computing against primarily women, but even those who aren’t embarrassed will still receive harassment for competing against women.
This is easily the most widely popular Trump EO. I’ve seen high 70% approval. NCAA was just waiting to do this and now has the air cover.
Someone in another thread said there should be a separate league for trans athletes. I asked which specific sport the league would be in since there are not enough trans athletes in any one sport to make a league.
They said they didn’t care. And that’s part of the problem.
While I personally believe trans athletes should be allowed to compete in any league of their choice or at least the league most closely matching the gender they present as, there is a part of me that would also like open-gendered sports in general. I have a theory that the “women are weaker, and would get crushed in leagues with men” is misogyny seeing only disadvantages and none of the advantages women athletes have (more complete brain development during their prime athletic years, etc.) If you are actually concerned about injury, then go by weight class, which could help save smaller men from severe injury as well.
I do also wonder just how much keeping sports gendered is just done to protect male egos from being styled on by women.
Boycott NCAA
