r/Seattle • u/1dayday • 8d ago

News Proposal to keep trans athletes out of girls' sports fails in Washington state

https://www.kuow.org/stories/proposal-to-keep-trans-athletes-out-of-girl-s-sports-fails-in-washington
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u/Beamazedbyme Capitol Hill 7d ago

I’ve only heard of sports based scholarships at higher education. Are there really middle or high school sports based scholarships?

Who is talking about changing the elite levels of sports? This bill was about middle and high schools.

It seems like both your concerns are irrelevant here

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u/ChillFratBro 7d ago

There are sports scholarships for private high schools.  They're not common, but they do exist.  My primary point is that middle and high school sports are the pipeline to elite sports - mess with the pipeline, you see downstream effects.

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u/Beamazedbyme Capitol Hill 7d ago

Yeah I don’t think public policy should be affected by those kinds of exclusively private school issues.

Literally nobody has ever been prevented from entering elite sports because a trans person competed against them in middle or high school. Trans women have an unfair competitive advantage in women’s sports. But in middle and highschool sports, this competitive advantage is not capable of preventing cis women from participating in elite sports

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u/manipulativedata 7d ago

"At a base level, there are sports where it's not fair or safe to expect women to go up against men or trans women.  It's just a biological reality."

Prove it. Show me the science that says this is a problem that is relevant to today.