[tiahura]

Does your daughter play competitive sports? Has she been knocked down by a boy playing on a girl’s team?

[dgfitz]

Nah that isn’t the problem. If that happened to my kid they would get back up and shove the other kid over.

The problem is maintaining the integrity of sports and competition. Only an uneducated person would ever try to argue that “the best women’s college basketball team would beat the best men’s college basketball team” even 1 out of 100 times.

[tiahura]

my kid they would get back up and shove the other kid over.

Therein lies the rub. Some sure do, but most 13 year old girls don’t.

[dgfitz]

My 10 year old daughter would.

[xhkkffbf]

Wait until the hormones kick in. Personalities change.

[dgfitz]

What is your point? Puberty is a thing? No kidding. I choose to believe that how I rear my children has a larger affect on their psyche than hormones.

[fireflash38]

Amusingly, in my experience, it was the girls in coed soccer that were doing the knocking down. For a few seasons, they were bigger than the boys, and they could more easily use their hips to check people off the ball without drawing fouls.

[lupusreal]

True, girls hit puberty first and for a few years outperformed boys in athletics. That was my personal experience in a coed sport.

[giraffe_lady]

Has yours? As far as I can tell there are no trans student athletes in my state at any age or competitiveness level. There are several active anti-trans organizations that consider this an issue but no specific cases of it locally for me to assess or be affected by.

[spamizbad]

as a parent of a child athlete this is always a silly argument. Kids in sports get knocked down all the time! Sometimes pretty hard! I feel like people who clutch their pearls on this stuff either don’t have kids, don’t have kids in sports, or aren’t the parent who actually shows up to the games.