Transgendered Athletes in Professional Sports

[DynamiteRave]

Originally Posted by FRPLG

I absolutely would.

That's pretty horrible. I think anyone has the right to play as they want. They know the risks, advantages and disadvantages of entering such a field of work. It's as bad as saying women shouldn't be on the front lines of the military or work on submarines. Archaic thinking.

[FRPLG]

Originally Posted by DynamiteRave

That's pretty horrible. I think anyone has the right to play as they want. They know the risks, advantages and disadvantages of entering such a field of work. It's as bad as saying women shouldn't be on the front lines of the military or work on submarines. Archaic thinking.

He was born with an inability to run naturally. Just like I am born without the ability to throw a 97 mph fastball. But if I take steroids to enable me to do so it is cheating. If he uses man-made legs it isn't? That's not logical to me.

[DynamiteRave]

Originally Posted by FRPLG

He was born with an inability to run naturally. Just like I am born without the ability to throw a 97 mph fastball. But if I take steroids to enable me to do so it is cheating. If he uses man-made legs it isn't? That's not logical to me.

Well the runner aside, because he's in the paraolympics now... They did make a rule saying olympians have to have real legs (that's my lay way of saying it, not the pretty technical way)

I still think it's not hurting anyone if a trans gendered person plays with cisgendered people.

It's not like Kobe Bryant slapping on a wig and a dress. This is someone who's undertaken years of hormone therapy and physically and psychologically believes they are meant to be their new gender.

Topic just hits home to me because I know so many people who are transgendered and the world hasn't exactly understood or adapted to the idea that even though a man was born male, doesn't mean he is.

I understand your point though.

[FRPLG]

Originally Posted by DynamiteRave

Topic just hits home to me because I know so many people who are transgendered and the world hasn't exactly understood or adapted to the idea that even though a man was born male, doesn't mean he is.

I understand your point though.

We have a responsibility to help society adapt and accept these people while changing the way our culture works to allow them to live and function on the same level. We don't have to change the fundamentals of the way we operate sports to account though. Part of the fabric of sports is that the participants begin on equal footing in terms of athletics. Gender matters, natural skills matter. Start messing around with that stuff and we're changing the basics of the games.

[DynamiteRave]

Originally Posted by FRPLG

We have a responsibility to help society adapt and accept these people while changing the way our culture works to allow them to live and function on the same level. We don't have to change the fundamentals of the way we operate sports to account though. Part of the fabric of sports is that the participants begin on equal footing in terms of athletics. Gender matters, natural skills matter. Start messing around with that stuff and we're changing the basics of the games.

I see where you're coming from. I hope there's some way that things balance out in regards to the world of sports.