This is much better than “survive ‘til ‘25”

Also, every female pro athlete you have ever heard of could absolutely school an average Cis-male/ 🙄“real man” in their sport. Any day of the week.

The great athletes are going to compete against anyone they can because it will make them better. They don’t care what is between their legs.

An athlete is an athlete.
A competitor is a competitor.
One person does not make a team.

Stop trying to make your daughters believe this non-issue is another glass ceiling.

We are exhausted from having to break the other stupid glass ceilings that already exist.

In the same way that the boy playing field hockey wasn’t a real problem.

Because it’s a game.

A trans boy who feels at home competing with the other boys is not the problem.

A trans girl who feels that the right place for her to compete is with other girls is not the problem.

Trans kids who are brave enough to live their lives fully and authentically are not the issue. They are just braver, kinder and more compassionate than transphobes and that terrifies transphobes.

Trans folk playing sports is not a real issue. It is an “issue” made up by people who are so full of fear and hate it has consumed their entire life.

It’s an “issue” made by people who have never cared about women’s sports until it gave them a way to hate someone.

Playing sports ultimately is about competing with yourself. It is about being better tomorrow than you are today. It’s about learning to work as a team. It’s a way to prepare yourself for life. And in real life, you don’t get to pick your opponents and sometimes you don’t get to pick your team.

I have no idea if he got bullied for running around in a skirt with a bunch of girls.

I just know that he saw it as an opportunity to train and compete & stay fresh for his main sport.

And we saw him as another athlete to compete against. Because that is what this argument is missing…

We really wanted to win, but we really wanted to win every game. When we won against the team with the boy it was because we were the better team. I know that because we lost games to better teams than us that had no boys on them.

Don’t get me wrong. He was a good goalie. His style was like an ice hockey goalie, which if you actually have seen a FH game you would know is an odd style. But he was good. He would even play on the field, in the skirt and all. He didn’t seem to care which in retrospect was bad ass in itself.

We could have chosen not to. (For context: I’m from a very conservative town that consistently votes red.)

We never chose to not play because they had a boy on the team. We always chose to play. We often won.

Title IX worked allowing girls on wrestling teams based on weight class and to get on teams like football (where a women’s team was not offered.) But in our case of not having a men’s field hockey team, it allowed a boy to play on the girls team. Now, we also had the option to not play them…