Nonbinary Trans Athletes
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- Can you be nonbinary, genderqueer, and/or trans and still participate in sports? What do you have to compromise or give up?
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I was born I a girl body and don't feel comfortable in it but running with the boys during practice as a fast "girl" was really affermining.but my couch told me to stop trying to keep up with the boys even though I could ! It really messed with my self-confidence Wich was already hanging by a thread
I know for me the take between wanting to keep competing and the tare of wanting to be my athentic self :( I have gotten to the point where I'm not happy anywhere I have to be a fake me or I get to do sport but be deeply unhappy , I'm I. The south and the teams even in public school are scary ly religious so I don't even feel good coming out socaily :(
I agree there should always be like at least 3 sports league s a CO Ed but professional
I'm not really a big sports person but just as an outsider, gendered sports seem unnecessary. I can see dividing people into groups based on physical ability or *maybe* size or something (like how some sports have weight classes) but gender itself shouldn't be the main consideration.
I mean I've been doing pull ups for ten years. And before low dose T I could do max 5 in a row. The last six months I've been on low dose T and now I can do 8 in a row. That's a huge difference considering it's not something I've been focussing on extra or specifically. As someone whose been super physically active for years, T, even low dose T, has made a massive difference in my performance. I hear this from trans men and women alike, the muscle mass change is so obvious.
Oh yeah totally. That's why I think it should be based on ability, which may include gains from taking T. But dividing people by gender specifically doesn't necessarily take that into account - like what about trans people who don't go on HRT? Or even just among cis people, it might be more fair for one person or another to be classed mostly with people of a different gender. So it seems like basing on some kind of benchmarking instead would make more sense... although, to be fair, it would probably still end up being a majority male or female in each group.
I was a very successful feamail athlet I would like to traction trans masculine ly but as of now not necessarily to a man I really wish there was a nonbiny hormonally odd or intersex catagory so the most people can be the most happy and play even on a higher level
I like that most casual/community sports teams aren't gender segregated, but I think it makes sense at higher levels to separate according to sex (/current hormone levels?). If all sports, like the Olympics, dropped the se categories an only had single mixed categories the amount of women on television doing athletics would fall dramatically. And then we wouldn't be able to watch nearly as many women athletes on TV and what message is that going to send young girls? That they can't do sports? Don't bother because you're never going to get to the top? I love watching women competing on TV, watching men is boring to me, because they aren't inspiring to me the same way women are, watching women I'm like "Cool! With enough training and hard work I could do that too!" Watching men, "That looks cool, but my body isn't shaped that way, it isn't weighted that way, our muscle/fat distributions are different, I'm not sure I couldn't ever move like that." It doesn't make me feel good.
Britta Saurus I think this is where it gets complicated for serious athletes. Because I completely get how one wants their gender affirmed in their sport(s). And I get their are actual physiological differences in people that do impact certain abilities. Thanks for your input!