Plus, the athletic advantage conferred by testosterone is equivocal. Yet these state bills would force them to play with the boys. Transgender girls on puberty blockers, on the other hand, have negligible testosterone levels. An estimated 10 percent of women have polycystic ovarian syndrome, which results in elevated testosterone levels. But transgender girls are not the only girls with high testosterone levels. The notion of transgender girls having an unfair advantage comes from the idea that testosterone causes physical changes such as an increase in muscle mass.
U SPORTS, Canada’s equivalent to the U.S.’s National Collegiate Athletic Association, has allowed transgender athletes to compete with the team that matches their identity for the past two years.
California passed a law in 2013 that allows trans youth to compete on the team that matches their gender identity there have been no issues. The Olympics have had trans-inclusive policies since 2004, but a single openly transgender athlete has yet to even qualify. Policies permitting transgender athletes to play on teams that match their gender identity are not new. They’re unscientific, and they would cause serious mental health damage to both cisgender and transgender youth. Attempts to force transgender girls to play on the boys’ teams are unconscionable attacks on already marginalized transgender children, and they don’t address a real problem. There is no epidemic of transgender girls dominating female sports. In fact, the vast majority of female athletes are cisgender, as are the vast majority of winners. It turns out that when transgender girls play on girls’ sports teams, cisgender girls can win.
The opinion piece left out the fact that two days after the Connecticut lawsuit was filed by the cisgender girls’ families, one of those girls beat one of the transgender girls named in the lawsuit in a Connecticut state championship. In describing the Connecticut case in the Wall Street Journal, opinion writer Abigail Shrier expressed a representative argument: when transgender girls compete on girls’ sports teams, she wrote, “ girls can’t win.” State legislators around the country are pushing bills that would force trans girls to compete on boys’ teams. Attorney General Merrick Garland was pressed on the issue during his confirmation hearing last month. They argued that transgender girls have an unfair advantage in high school sports and should be forced to play on boys’ teams.Ĭonservatives around the country have jumped on the question. The families were upset that transgender girls were competing against the cisgender girls in high school track leagues. In February 2020, the families of three cisgender girls filed a federal lawsuit against the Connecticut Association of Schools, the nonprofit Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference and several boards of education in the state.
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