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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm glad NVSL came out with a clear rule, and I agree the concerns about 'records' and 'inspections' are specious.  Several years ago when the trans stuff first started happening people could legitimately think that there was this tiny tiny group of kids who felt this way from birth and could be 'cured' by being allowed to transition to the other gender.  [b]And honestly no one is terribly concerned about a child who transitions before puberty.   Go to the present- we have the tragedy of sudden onset gender issues in adolescence, and kids who have gone through puberty all of a sudden presenting as the opposite gender.[/b]  You don't need to police it or inspect, you just can't let John who has swum with the boys from age 6 on, suddenly decide at 15 he is a girl and switch to the girls.[/quote]

This is my issue with these blanket policies. I do think there is a difference between kids who transitioned early and were placed on puberty blockers and those who have gone through male puberty. I know a child who was placed on puberty blockers; you would not guess they are trans and they have no physical advantage over cis girls. There are actually some cis girls on our team that could be questionable as they are bigger and stronger than many of the boys their age.   [/quote]

So this is also where I call BS.  Less than 0.1 of minors take gender affirming meds (8-17 years of age) and that works out to less than 400 some kids in the U.S PREPUBERTY, actually probably less.  Yet, everyone seems to know someone that is taking them prepuberty and says oh, you would never know.  And, now it is not allowed for minors, so the practice has stopped for any new patient.  So it is no longer occurring, which means any kid competing as a trans girl would not be on blockers, so it would not be appropriate.  Problem solved for the feminist out there.[/quote]

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