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[meadowlander]

57. The point is

.5% of the population is transgender. Conservatively, .00015% of the population plays college or professional sports or competes at an elite level in national or international competitions.

So why so much media attention (mostly on Fox BTW) to an issue that impacts, at best, .0000007% of people? Because the people pulling the media's strings would much rather we all sit around arguing with each other about this and not the fact that our planet is going to being uninhabitable in 100 years or that income inequality and corruption are destroying this country.

Let trans people play on whatever team they want to play on. Problem solved. It's not like all sports aren't already completely arbitrary and meaningless anyway. Why do we care that a man who eats a keto protein power diet and sleeps upside down and wears engineered shoes has a "legitimate" record but a man who huffs oxygen or takes steroids should have his record thrown out? Who gets to compete or not compete is already an arbitrary shit show of "this supplement good, this supplement bad" "you can wear this, you can't wear that" "this move is legal, that slightly different move is illegal".

As much as you obviously want to drag this discussion into personal attacks, it isn't about me or my experience. It's about our inability as a society to stay focused on and devote resources to the things that actually make a difference at the macro level. And objectively sports isn't one of them.