What a headline to read as a trans person…
We’ve never been more excluded or villified in sports than right here at this moment
I think there is a difference between how sports fans feel about LGBT+ people, and how the people in charge of the league organisations feel. Stonewall’s research appears to have been looking at the former, while the latter are the ones who make the rules. That said, if the research is correct and sports fans are genuinely supportive of trans athletes, then they should be pressuring the league organisations to stop discriminating against them.
If excluding trans folk wasn’t broadly tolerated by sports fans, it wouldn’t be so widespread.
I think the more likely scenario is that the work focused on LGBTQ folks as a whole and simply didn’t look at the very divergent experiences of trans folk in sports. Not mentioning that limitation is a strange oversight from pink news
The article does specifically state “60 per cent would be happy to play alongside a trans teammate”, so the research definitely did look into acceptance of trans people separately from LGB people. While 60% is lower than the mid-70s percentage that accept LGB people, it is still a majority.
The truth is that sports fans, like the majority of people, are accepting of trans people, but don’t care about the issue strongly enough to start pushing against discrimination. The issue isn’t a lack of support, it’s a lack of allies actually being vocal about it.
I see your point, and ultimately I don’t care if trans people compete, they should be allowed, I think they have already figured out a reasonable timeline where it becomes fair again. I think this is recognizing that the sports of our parent’s generation is moving onto the younger. For example, I hated spectator sports as a kid, but now I love Football, and enjoy watching MLB, NBA, NHL, and MLS all in person. If you asked younger me if I would be interested in sports, I would have laughed. Now I am probably closest to a socialist or leftist, and I def support anyone playing sports, but I bet my dad and mom would be weirded out. Seems to be the shift as Millennials and Gen Z get more into sports. But obviously this is just my opinion, not fact.
Roller derby has been like this already.
Presumably provided that they’re with the correct team. I’m sure lgbtq fans and members of the opposing team is hated just as much as the cis/straight equivalent, which I guess is equality.
