The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) has proposed a significant policy change that could reshape the landscape of high school sports. The proposal aims to limit participation in girls’ sports to students assigned female at birth while creating an open division for athletes of all gender identities. This potential shift has sparked debate across the state, with opinions ranging from support for fairness in competition to concerns about inclusivity.
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WIAA board proposes to keep men out of women’s sports, create ‘open division’ for all gender identities
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Why is the question about sports and bathrooms always “men” transitioning to women. There are women who transition to men and frankly some of them scare me. As a slightly built cis man I haven been confronted by females in the men’s room who make me uncomfortable. Let’s ask the question of fairness by talking about both sexes.
I note that babies are not “assigned” a gender at birth. Gender is determined by either the presence of X-X or X-Y chromosomes. Prior to this insane “gender assignment” myth and the “gender dysphoria” epidemic, roughly about .12% of children born had “indeterminate” gender upon inspection at birth. (That means that 99.88% of babies were easily classified by inspection.) Obviously there are “mistakes” made by nature (X-X-Y being one occurrence). And there are indications that the mother’s female hormones may have been at a level where a male baby may have been affected to varying degree. But the reality is that “gender dysphoria” was (historically) a VERY rare situation.
Much more common, are situations where a growing child, for whatever reasons, may be affected socially or by hormonal imbalances to appear to exhibit “tendencies” toward the opposite gender. While I was growing up, my sister was a “tom boy” — she tended to prefer sports and activities that were more generally followed by males. However, after puberty, she eventually became more “womanly” and was happily married with children of her own. (She had two daughters, one that also exhibited the “tom boy” phase, and one that exhibited a feminine disposition from birth.) Today, would my sister (or her tomboyish daughter) been socially pressured into “sex change?” (My “tom boy” niece has adult children of her own, now.)
Having read that around 30% of children are “expressing gender dysphoria” it seems to me that we’re witnessing an artificial social situation that is neither good science or good psychological health. I suspect in 20 or 30 years there will be very negative outcomes from this particular social insanity.
Boys are boys and should play against boys. Girls are girls and should play against girls. Pretty simple. Boys can not “change” into girls and Girls can not “change into boys. Pretty simple.