A recent headline I read states that the South Dakota Governor is going to make it state law that if you are born as a biological male or female you will only be permitted to participate in sports of your biological gender. In other words, if you are born as a male you will not be permitted to participate in any sporting events outside of those designated for males. Even if you identify as a female you will not be allowed to participate in women's sporting events if you are biologically male. This is not an entirely bad idea and I shall explain my reasoning below.
There are only 2 sexes, male and female, where human beings are concerned. However,
there are current scientific studies that suggest there are more than 2 genders. As with all things in the scientific world, you will continue to have debates on who's study is the most significant and has the most relevance about the subject being discussed. You can Google the subject and probably find equal amounts of studies for and against the subject. For the purposes of this blog, I'm going to stick to the obvious and avoid the more contentious topics.
A person's sexual self is determined while still in the womb. A baby born as a male will remain, biologically, a male for their entire life. The same can be stated for females. They can choose to identify as the other, "opposite" if you will, but what they choose to identify as does not change the biological FACT that they are still a male or female. What it boils down to is that even if a man self identifies as a female their biological makeup remains that of a male. Bruce Jenner, now known as Caitlin, is still biologically a man and still has the genetic traits of the sex he was originally born as. This cannot be changed no matter how much a person wishes it were so.
If a man self-identifies as female is it right to permit this person to participate in sporting events where the majority of the participants are biologically female and do not identify as anything but that? Is it right to permit a transgender male to participate in sporting events against normal female athletes? Knowing that a transgender male has an advantage over those female athletes due to his biological differences would you be willing to allow your daughter to participate? I would have to say no only because it gives an unfair advantage to the transgender athlete. So why is this even being discussed in the halls of government? Why is this subject such a contentious issue when, in reality, the answer is quite simple?
Rather than allowing trans athletes to participate with those who do not self-identify as the other sex allow them to participate in their own events trans athlete versus trans athlete. Level the playing field and keep the athletes "honest" by making them compete against others on an equal footing. We allow males and females to participate separately in their own events so why not do the same for those who self-identify as Transgender or anything other than the gender they were born as. This would not be racist/sexist or any other "cancel culture" word of the day. This would allow an equal and level playing field for all involved.
