I’ve become tired of certain factions on the far right making much to do about transgender females “unfairly” participating in girls’ sports in the name of maintaining essential equity. Oddly, these are often the same people who opposed the application of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, to address gender discrimination in college athletics.
Forbidding transgender females from participating in high school and younger-grade sports seems like a solution in search of a problem. Perhaps there is an increase in the number of transgender students overall, as such conditions become more medically and socially acceptable to address when secondary sexual characteristics express themselves in puberty. This trend is cause for alarm in some quarters, as well, which is a related, but separate, matter. However, I’d like to know if there has been a notable increase in the number of preteen and teen transgender females seeking to participate in sports. How many students in Delaware are we talking about? Two or 200?
I think there are much more important issues we face and should be spending our time addressing.
John P. McCarthy
Frederica
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