Okay, I suppose I can see how there are those who would want the law enforced in that way, but I can’t see how it could be.
We don’t test for doping based on the objections of other participants, we test all of them when they reach the levels where competition is high enough that people are willing to risk their health to get an advantage.
So, either everyone in a particular contest has their gender verified, or none do.
Personally, I think they should do nothing. When it comes to levels of competition where testing for doping is appropriate, part of that is testosterone levels, and if those are well out of line, then further investigation may be warranted.
In order of decreasing likelihood, that may be that a cis-gender woman is doping, it could be that a trans-gender woman needs to have her hormone therapy adjusted, or it could be that a man is pretending to be a woman to be more competitive and isn’t taking hormone therapy at all.
I thought the reasoning goes like this: I think there should be an open-to-all category, where the first-place runner gets a gold medal — no matter what they were assigned at birth, or identify as, or whatever, sure as nobody bothers to check out anybody’s genitalia — and the second-place runner gets a silver, and third a bronze, period.
And, apparently, there’s enough demand for a category that’ll be open only to those who were assigned female at birth? So if you were assigned female at birth — and, say, you provide a birth certificate attesting to that fact — then you get the choice of competing in the ‘open’ category or the ‘AFAB’ category: again, regardless of what you identify as; and, again, nobody bothers to check any genitalia; and then they, too, go gold-silver-bronze.
Off the top of my head, that’d seem to suffice; but I’m of course open to revising my position, if someone brings a less bad option to my attention.
Yeah, this doesn’t seem to address the problem if the concern really is people faking changing their gender in order to be more competitive. A woman could claim to be transgender in order to justify testosterone supplements, but the law says that she would still have to compete with the other cis-gender women, where she would have an advantage.
So you want a cis woman category, I take it? Non binary women (and non binary people and other similar categories), even if they’re assigned female at birth and have never taken hormones or anything else, aren’t allowed?
That’s why I mentioned an ‘open’ category: she wouldn’t still “have” to exclusively compete with cisgender women, she’d have the option of competing in the ‘open’ category.
I mean, there is the less bad of simply not trying to create laws that discriminate and oppress minorities. That it’s hard to oppress minorities without accidently harming the rest is a feature, not a bug, IMHO.
How about we keep it as is, and allow trans people to compete as they identify, except when they’re lying (i.e. they’re not trans) or there’s a real negative impact to competitive fairness or safety? In other words, case by case?
I mean, if the parallel you’re going for is that we should only allow the ‘open to all’ category instead of also having a ‘so-and-so-only’ category, then, sure, I’m open to that.
…good GOD I hope we aren’t going to have another “should we allow trans people in sports” debate.
We are on the verge of genocide. The purpose of this legislation is to put trans people on notice that you are not welcome to participate in society. It only gets worse from here.
The amount of trans people actually participating in sport is miniscule. And they aren’t winning anything. They aren’t taking away medals, they aren’t causing injuries. Its an entirely made up issue based on fear, hatred and prejudice.
Someone makes a complaint (anonymously, if they want, as long as basis to be suspicious is provided), that complaint is investigated.
ISTM that if there was going to be some enormous problem of fake trans people dominating women’s sports, we’d have seen it already. AFAICT, such instances have been vanishingly rare.
By investigators, perhaps? The same ones who investigate claims of doping, or cheating, or other violations in sports (as long as they also have training in trans issues)?
Are you equally concerned how investigators investigate claims of doping and cheating? And do you need those details before you consider banning doping and cheating in sports?
…the way that many sports were already doing it until transphobic rhetoric started to take hold in the last year or so. It isn’t a major issue. Different sports handled it differently, and it’s easy enough to look it up if you want.