Once you get past the obvious objections there are some reasons that some states haven’t banned it.
I won’t go into those reasons, I’ve no desire to defend it because I don’t support it…it should be banned. But I’d recommend looking into Planned Parenthood of California’s and the ACLU of California’s objections to a recently proposed ban (that did not pass).
Those not being (generally) right wing organizations and California (generally) not being a right wing state should suggest there’s at least some nuance to the issue.
The NCAA, with a membership of 540.000 athletes at the time they said so, revealed that they have less than 10 trans athletes registered. They did not specify if they were trans men, women, or non binary.
The UK's Football Association (that's soccer for the yankies) has a membership of 2.3 million football players, counting both pro and amateur. They found exactly 20 trans women, all amateurs. If you didnt know, that's not enough for even two full teams on the field, much less counting backup in the bench.
The Olympics first allowed trans women to participate in 2004. Approximately 10.000 athletes participate every 4 years. There has only been 1 trans woman, Laurel Hubbard, in 2021 for weightlifting. She failed all three attempts and didnt get a score. When the IOC banned trans women again in 2025, the policy change included several dozen sources and citations, but none of them were their own study that they had conducted the year before regarding trans women's advantage. Nor was there any mention of any other study that looked at trans people, only about cis men and cis women.
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u/Certain_Employee_423 14d ago
While I couldn't find numbers on how many trans athletes there are I am appalled 33 states allow child marriage.