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Members of a women’s fishing team refuse to compete alongside trans teammate (www.lgbtqnation.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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They think trans women have an unfair advantage in... fishing?

Three members of an English women’s fishing team in England are refusing to compete at the world championships due to the fact that one of their own teammates is trans.

The Shore Angling World Championships will take place in Italy in November, and the board of the sport’s governing body, the Angling Trust, has said it will not prevent trans angler Becky Lee Birtwhistle Hodges from applying to compete.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So your stance is that you want to check people's genitals before they can play a sport, and that intersex people can't play? Don't either of those things feel a little off to you?

Just because people want to segregate doesn't make it okay. As a society, we've created loads of laws to make this exact point. It's why (e.g.) the country club restaurant has to serve black people. You can't segregate based on things a person can't change. Sometimes you can't even segregate based on things a person can change, like their religion.

Trans and intersex people need to be allowed to participate in sports. If we, as a society, are going to choose to differentiate sports teams based on gender, then we must allow these people to play based on the gender that they are.

If that's such a problem, we could also ban segregating sports teams based on gender. That's cool too.