I don’t know why I was born transgender, but I have no secret agenda. I want my child to live in a world where they are safe and free to be exactly who they are.
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Fewer than 1 in 3 people report personally knowing someone who is transgender. Yet the American public is saturated with viral social media videos and political news stories, largely generated by a well-funded coalition of organizations long dedicated to making it as difficult as possible for LGBTQ+ people to go about their daily lives.
These organizations proudly advocate for the abuse of LGBTQ+ young people through the dangerous and discredited practice of conversion therapy, and they have celebrated their role in influencing Texas to “investigate” parents who’re doing their level best to support their transgender kids.
They’ve succeeded in generating national debates about excluding transgender kids from school sports, banning medically necessary health care and even prohibiting restroom usage – all under a guise of “protecting young people.” But these debates are largely missing the point.
Transgender people are our friends, family members and neighbors. They work in the cubicle next to us at the office, and they pray next to us in our houses of worship.
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Not really. Trans athletes aren’t the top of every sport, and in a lot of cases where you see complaints, it isn’t even “the trans woman got 1st and I got 2nd!” but “the trans women got 4th and I got 5th!”.
That to me suggests that trans women have no greater advantage than what other genetic traits could confer. When some athletes have abnormalities that make their muscles more efficient, we cheer them on. When a cis woman has abnormally high testosterone levels, we ban her from competing.
It’s all arbitrary and genetic lottery.
So your solution is to make testosterone doping legal?
That’s simply not true. It’s “the trans woman just broke the regional record for X event.”