To the editor: The hassle to maintain transgender feminine athletes out of highschool sports activities is among the most hateful and vitriolic political initiatives in my lifetime (“Trans athletes face intense efforts to sideline them. These California teenagers are resisting,” Feb. 22).
There are maybe just a few dozen trans pupil athletes competing in California — out of greater than 800,000 in complete. And out of these 800,000 highschool athletes, what number of are going to care about shedding a junior varsity volleyball sport a yr from now, whether or not or not a trans participant participated?
Have the mother and father of those pupil athletes even mirrored for a second on this? Have they questioned why they aren’t equally as impassioned in opposition to transgender boys competing in boys’ sports activities? Is it as a result of the one factor that may eclipse their transphobia is misogyny?
In fact, that leads me again to that previous saying concerning the intersection of teachers and politics: The brutality is so excessive as a result of the stakes are so low.
Ron Shinkman, Northridge
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To the editor: I don’t have any scientific research to cite. I simply have my very own observations to go on. In nursery faculty, I do not forget that the common boy was taller, stronger and quicker than nearly any woman. That continued as much as the time of puberty. After puberty, the boys bought even larger, stronger and quicker than the women.
At each stage of life, the women had been biologically completely different from the boys: usually shorter, slower and never as muscular on common. There is no such thing as a technique to erase the variations and have a good competitors between the sexes. Puberty blockers, testosterone-reducing medicine or surgical transitioning is not going to absolutely erase the benefits inherent in an athlete who was born male.
We don’t have 5-year-olds compete in opposition to highschool college students in sports activities and I don’t want to clarify why. Having athletes who had been born male compete in women’ sports activities is simply as unfair. We might simply remedy this by making an “open” class for anybody to play in.
James Wilterdink, Chula Vista
