DALLAS — Democratic U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico on Wednesday said he opposed transgender student-athletes competing in girls’ sports “if it endangers safety or fairness,” reversing course on previous positions he took while in the Texas House opposing restrictions on trans athletes.

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[–] charokol@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

And then you’ll hear complaints when smaller-built guys start getting classed with women

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[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 months ago

Used to happen (and prob still does) in HS wrestling. There were never enough girls so they'd just wrestle with boys, and since it was by weight class they were almost inevitably with the smaller guys.

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[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

People will always find something to complain about, but classes based on objective and quantifiable metrics like weight and height would be more fair and safe than subjective gender identity-based classes, and there would be very little room for debate.

Small guys (and girls too) can always bulk up if they want want to play with the heavyweights. It's the obvious solution to this trivial and mostly imaginary "problem".

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