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The group criticizes those policies, saying it allows trans girls with "unmitigated" testosterone to enter competitions against their cisgender peers. LGBTQ+ advocates say the group's plan would force trans girls to undergo testing to play school sports. https://bit.ly/3tzovXF pic.twitter.com/sPHQEZk3W9
The proposal was presented as an alternative to an executive order signed by President Biden that directs agencies to enforce the Supreme Court's June 2020 finding that the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans sex discrimination, applies to LGBTQ+ workers.https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/executive-order-preventing-and-combating-discrimination-on-basis-of-gender-identity-or-sexual-orientation/ …
Biden's order does not create policy, but his directive does interpret the ruling to extend beyond employment, specifically citing sports for children. Some opponents have accused Biden of "erasing women" in the order. The group has aimed to position themselves as the solution.pic.twitter.com/YuUvVmhQRC
The group's policy aims to follow testing practices in elite sports. The International Olympic Committee allows trans athletes to compete after medical transition, rules based on a study by transgender researcher Joanna Harper, who is a backer of the group, but not a member.
Harper's study looked at eight trans women runners and found that they were more than 10 percent slower after transitioning with hormones.https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2019/apr/01/sports-transgender-debate-compromise-not-conflict …
LGBTQ+ advocates and trans athletes have largely denounced the working group as a disingenuous attempt to exclude trans girls, created without the input of trans athletes. None of the group's six members is transgender. https://bit.ly/3tzovXF pic.twitter.com/KB6edhlR31
The @APA recommends policies that allow trans kids to play on a sports team consistent with their gender identity, and notes that no study has shown that it impacts the nature of the sport.https://bit.ly/3tzovXF
Trans advocates say an untold number of trans kids are already playing on their schools' teams without issue and that trans athletes come under scrutiny only when they win — a fixation that they say betrays the spirit and intent of sports.https://bit.ly/3tzovXF
"What they're asking for as a complete guarantee on winning," @chelseawolfebmx said. "And winning is not a human right. Participation in sport is a human right."
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No need for an alternative. Trans girls are girls. Full stop.
No they are not and they shouldn't be allowed to violate females just to satisfy their delusion that they are one.
just wait until the trans men want to also compete in womans sports, because they know they are no match for biological men and are at a disadvantage. then where will the hypocrisy go.
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Do transgender girls have an unfair competitive advantage in sports?
The Women's Sports Policy Working Group, created by six scholars and elite athletes, says their proposal provides a "compromise" to this debate.
No trans people are in the group.
