@ (teens) OH sports law: genital exams

[emilyj]

Jun 5, 2022 17:30:38 GMT -5 NewOrleans said:

This is one of their more depraved laws to date, which says a lot. They are utter perverts.

TW: this law is medical sexual assault 

Late at night on Wednesday, June 1, a bill meant to modify Ohio’s teacher residency program suddenly acquired an unrelated amendment. Under the Save Women’s Sports Act, a student athlete’s gender can be questioned, requiring that student to bring a note from their doctor to verify their sex.


If a participant’s sex is disputed, the participant shall establish the participant’s sex by presenting a signed physicians statement indicating the participant’s sex based upon only the following:

1) The participant’s internal and external reproductive anatomy;

2) The participant’s normal endogenously produced levels of testosterone;

3) An analysis of the participants genetic makeup.

The bill does not include any language limiting who may dispute the athlete’s gender, under what conditions, nor when such disputing can occur. 

(Also, if a student says they have been harmed athletically / competitively by having a trans student on their team they can sue the school and everyone).

www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2022/06/03/ohio-legislators-want-to-check-childrens-gender/?sh=568371563ad0

I could go off on this for days.  DAYS.  I've done a couple of studies so far on transgender participation in sport, and the results are...interesting.

The IOC eliminated their requirement for genital examinations in 2015. And they just revised their policies to be MORE trans inclusive: www.si.com/olympics/2022/03/23/transgender-athletes-testosterone-policies-ioc-framework

If any of you see your local lawmakers pushing this "Save Women's Sport" bullshit, please directly contact them and provide them the Equity Report from the Women's Sport Foundation, and note that in the report, trans inclusion doesn't make the top 10 of issues threatening women's sport. Ask them to provide examples of what they have done to combat failures in Title IX, sexual abuse in sport, pay inequities, and the lack of women working in sport: www.womenssportsfoundation.org/articles_and_report/chasing-equity-the-triumphs-challenges-and-opportunities-in-sports-for-girls-and-women/

Preferably do that in as public of a forum as you can (I do it on Twitter quite often).

The IOC has allowed transgender participation since 2003 (with now two policy revisions to be more inclusive to trans athletes). The NCAA has allowed transgender participation since 2010 (though they just made a policy change this year, which has gotten some serious blowback).

19 and 12 years of allowing trans participation. And in all that time, there has been 1 trans woman who has qualified for the Olympics (Laurel Hubbard, New Zealand weightlifter in 2020/21 Tokyo), and then we all saw Lia Thomas from Penn this year make headlines. 

Rachel McKinnon made some waves a few years ago for winning a cycling world championship. But she's faded away.  There were the two high school sprinters in CT a couple years ago, but again...we've heard nothing further.  There's an MMA fighter who is a trans woman, and apparently broke her opponents nose/face in a fight, but that was one instance.

In all that time, we are just NOT seeing trans women take over and dominate sport.

When the argument about 'boys will just decide to be women to dominate in sport is made' Chris Moiser (trans male triathlete/duathlete) makes the perfect point: What cisgender male will subject himself to hormone therapy and living life as a woman to compete in women's sport, given the fact that women's sport a) has minimal coverage compared to male sports, b) less funding, and c) issues in equality? 

No one is talking about how these types of laws are also going to affect cisgender girls and women*. Because there is a very definitive framework for how a female athlete is supposed to look, and this allows any deviation from that to be questioned.  So, even though it's not the problematic point, this will trickle out to the broader issues of 'looking appropriate' in sport (the comment above about Abby Wambach is the perfect example).

*Yes. I know cisgender girls and women are not the focus here, and that the issue is the threatening of trans girls/women. However, these stupid people that push this nonsense want to conveniently ignore that fact, and I think that needs to be shoved in their face as well.  How will those parents feel when their child is subjected to a genital exam based on how she looks? 

Ok. I'm done for now.  

[miesl]

Given the lack of any consequence, I can see this being weaponized by those with unhealthy competitive behaviors. Karen is going to win the track meet instead of my precious Jane... let's insist Karen get a gender confirmation. It won't be fast to get done with that genetic component.

The end goal actually seems to be "eliminate women's sports" because from a liability perspective, schools will want to have gender confirmation up front so they can't get sued if a)someone fails confirmation or b)refuses confirmation once accused. If medical sexual assault is the standard to enter girls sports, many will refuse.