MicroWaveMay 27, 2025

GOP lawmaker left speechless when asked if he's trans during a hearing

https://lemmy.world/post/30328239

GOP lawmaker left speechless when asked if he's trans during a hearing - Lemmy.World

He huffed about how the question wasn’t “appropriate” even though his bill would result in kids being asked that same question. A Republican state rep from Michigan testifying about his anti-trans sports bill on Monday was left speechless after an out Democratic colleague began his questioning by asking, “Representative, can you tell me: are you trans?” A long beat staring down out gay Democratic state Rep. Mike McFall followed, before state Rep. Jason Woolford ® managed to reply, “Are you?” “I’m actually going somewhere with this,” he said to lawmakers in the small chamber. “Because I want to know, how does a 14-year-old girl prove whether or not she’s trans to a 50-year-old coach?”

Show threadJiveTurkeyMay 27, 2025

I guess I’m out of the loop on this subject and honestly I don’t know if the information I have is factual or not.

Do trans women generally have a physical advantage over women? Are there any rules for this kind of thing? Do they need to be transitioning or taking suppression drugs? This is a serious question.

Show threadColalextrastMay 27, 2025
Human beings are sexually dimorphic, but most of the advantages or disadvantages are negligible or can be overcome with training, so it makes little difference. It makes even less difference in middle and high school aged children, since everyone is at (somewhat) different points developmentally anyway.
Show threadMicroplasticbrainMay 27, 2025
Also sports were never fair to begin with, they are literally competitions of ableism
Show threadJiveTurkeyMay 27, 2025
Maybe but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t attempt to make them as fair as possible.
Show threadMicroplasticbrainMay 27, 2025
I disagree, especially if it means auditing childrens genetalia to vindicate a chud.
Show threadJiveTurkey
I agree with what you’re saying but I also don’t think it has to come to that. I guess my point is that if we don’t make some attempt to set a standard then we are allowing literally anything. I don’t honestly care for sports being tied to school in the first place but are we saying that anyone can claim to be trans and join the other team at any time because we’re all too afraid to talk about it or what? If that’s the case then it seems like we should just do a way with gender in sports completely.
May 28, 2025 at 12:52amWeb
Show threadMicroplasticbrainMay 28, 2025

What if a person feels like a girl and then later a boy but the later decides that they really felt most like themselves as a girl and would like to be a woman now?

Why the fuck should anyone else be involved in that discussion? For that sake of fairness in sportsball? Give me a break.

Sure just do coed sports whatever I don’t care.

The whole thing is based on a false premise, that sports were ever fair to begin with.

Show threadWoodScientistMay 28, 2025

I guess my point is that if we don’t make some attempt to set a standard then we are allowing literally anything.

You have a standard. Men play in the men’s category, women in the women’s. In this context, a man is anyone with a testosterone-dominant biology, and a woman anyone with an estrogen-dominated biology. There is your objective standard.