Legal and policy opinions.
IF one considers themselves liberty minded these are the opinions of
liberty minded people. Meaning rights for other people not just a
majority of people.
Statement: There are some who will always find true Liberty for all to be too
risky an idea to embrace — unfortunately, many of those people are
elected officials. In state legislatures across the country, bills have
been proposed (and unfortunately in some cases, passed) that would
regulate and criminalize the personal medical and life decisions of
transgender individuals. Those who long have declared themselves
champions of limited government and personal freedom are seeking to
insert their own opinions into decisions that should be left to
individuals and families.
In Arkansas where some bills have already become law after legislators
overrode a veto, Governor Hutchinson expressed the same confusion so
many share. “The Republican Party that I grew up with believed in a
restrained government that did not jump in the middle of every issue.”
Of course, anyone paying attention has recognized that neither old party
is interested in a restrained response to any concern.
As is the only apparent tactic of status quo politicians these
days, those championing anti-liberty bills are spreading fear, lies, and
sensational stories to secure support for limiting the rights of those
they simply do not understand or do not want seen as acceptable. In
Texas, there is an effort to classify gender-affirming care as child
abuse — which can be classified as a felony with corresponding jail
time. Right now there are parents wondering if they will have to uproot
their families and flee their home state rather than neglect the
carefully considered care that is helping their children thrive.
There is perhaps nothing more dangerous to individuals and families than
elected officials who value their own opinions over the love and
devotion of a parent seeking expert opinions and the best life for their
child.
Abstract:
This Article provides an overview of United States law and public policy
relating to the rights of transgender athletes to participate in sports
programs. United States public law is complex but generally
permissive of inclusion. The Author opines how sports organizers
should apply the law, or in its absence, what to consider when creating
internal policies, including that sports organizations should allow
gender-identity based participation; participation restrictions are
inappropriate in youth, non-elite athletics; and inclusion promotes
dignity, respect and health of transgender participants.
For those who suggest trans women have advantages: we allow advantages
in sport, but what we don’t allow is overwhelming advantages,” she
said. “Trans women also have disadvantages in sport. Our larger bodies
are being powered by reduced muscle mass and reduced aerobic capacity,
and can lead to disadvantages in quickness, recovery and a number of
other factors.
“The bottom line is, we can have meaningful competition between trans
women and cis women. From my point of the view, the data looks favorable
toward trans women being allowed to compete in women’s sports.
NOTE: This is the opinion of a researcher on the unconflicted article in the British Sports Medicine Journal. Unconflicted because the author declared and did not hide her possible bias and worked with a large team that would not share that. NOTE even the author of the conflicted paper cites this transwomans work as being high quality.