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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In our league, the child can swim in their chosen (for lack of a better word) gender's events, but will be scored in their biological gender's events.  So your trans daughter could swim with the girls but will appear on the meet results as a boy.

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How does that work? For a race, each team gets three lane. A swimmer whose swim wasn't being scored would mean the team is forfeiting that lane. It also seems unfair to score them against a heat they aren't in because racers look to the side to pace themselves [/quote]

That's a good point.

And this is why we need to have honest and respectful conversation about how when we open things up to trans female, we MAY be displacing biological females.  And we need to ask ourselves if thats ok.

That's not to demonize the trans community or suggest that they shouldn't be their authentic selves.  But also that their decisions and actions dont happen in a vacuum.

In this scenario, I think the athlete should swim with their biological peers[/quote]

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