Lia Thomas

[Inky_Wretch]

This is going to spawn tens of thousands of accusations from parents in states where Trumpers hold sway.

Emma finished second? Well obviously gold medal winner Avery is a boy.

Especially if Avery isn't a girly girl.

 

[dixiehack]

Don't most youth sports leagues require a birth certificiate in any event to confirm age classification? (See Little League baseball). I don't like the idea of some athlete having to defend herself that she's too good or not feminine enough to compete. Though I do concede that for athletic purposes, if you are a male who wants to identify as female, that's fine - just understand that might mean some competitions are no longer available to you. Conferences and schools can do what they want, but all competitions have certain eligibility requirements.

I’ve got to think the “want to contingent” has to be vanishingly tiny. I don’t care if you live in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge, there’s still enough negative feedback from society to weed out virtually anybody who would be playing this for a lark.

 

[Pilot]

We had a badass girls volleyball/basketball/track star a decade or so ago and after the season went in and did a big profile on her, talking to friends, coaches, family, parents, etc. Her mom told me the reason she was so athletic was she had a twin brother and she stole all his testosterone in the womb, which, she explained, was why he wasn't very athletic.

Anyway, I didn't include that in the story.

 

[SixToe]

Especially if Avery isn't a girly girl.

Already happening.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2022/08/18/utah-parents-complained-high/

 

[goalmouth]

If the East German women swimmers didn't fail the gender test in the Seventies, nobody should.

 

[justgladtobehere]

Two transgender athletes didn't attend track meet in California.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.fresnobee.com/sports/high-school/article275843101.html

After a week of online vitriol and transphobia aimed at two runners scheduled to compete at the state track and field preliminaries Friday, neither showed up to the starting line of their scheduled 1,600-meter heats at Buchanan High in Clovis.

“The CIF is disappointed for two of our student-athletes and their families because due to the actions of others, they found it necessary to withdraw from the State Track and Field Championships out of concern for the student’s well being,” the California Interscholastic Federation, the governing body for high school sports in California, wrote in a statement provided to The Los Angeles Times.

“The CIF strongly denounces discriminatory or harassing behaviors that impact our student-athletes’ opportunities to participate in interscholastic competitions.”​