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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have two daughters who play sports. One (my high schooler)  even plays on a tennis team and regularly plays against boy players. I am not concerned one iota about her losing out on a scholarship to a boy.

I am also not concerned in the least bit about being going to a public restroom and being attacked by a trans woman. I also am not concerned about my daughters going to a public restroom and being attacked by a transwoman.[/quote]

OP here.  Let clarify, I’m not insinuating that a trans woman  will attack domeonebin the bathroom.  I’m asking does the bill allow any man( who is not trans, not dressed as a man in any way) say I will use the women’s  bathroom because I identify as such?  I am not a lawyer and I interpreted it to mean this way, but I’m hoping that someone can clarify if that’s not the case.  Here’s the bill:[url] https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5[/url]

This is the  line which seems to make it  a catch all:

“Specifically, the bill defines and includes sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity among the prohibited categories of discrimination or segregation.“
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OP, can you tell us the specific scenario you're concerned about?[/quote]

OP here.  The most common scenario being thrown  out there is that any man will now be able to say, I identify as a woman (with this  bill), and use the women’s bathroom.  My issue is that this seem to make it easier for pedos/pervs(NOT TRANS) to abuse the bill.

The other is the issue where trans competes in Women’s sports competition, there are reports /studies that trans women may have the edge compared to biological women  due to testosterone( see nbc link on the previous post), if this is the  case, then it seems it might sideline biological women.  I think further studies  are being done about this and that it  is recommended that the testosterone level be measured before being allowed in.

These are the  top 2 that I can think of, I’m not sure about other issues but these 2 seem to stand out to  me. [/quote]

Based on your post above it sounds like you're now okay with the bathroom issue.

On the sports issue, people will have differing views on that, and I'm going to argue with you that it's totally black and white.  From my perspective, transgender women make up a remarkably small number of female athletes in this country.  While there are a handful of examples people can point to of transgender women winning at the highest level in women's sports, they are more the exception than the rule.  The vast majority of women's athletic championships are won by cisgender women.  The vast majority of college athletic scholarships will continue to go to cisgender women.  Yes, certain transgender women may have certain physiological advantages over certain cisgender women in certain sports, but that is not the rule across the board.  If you're going to start drawing lines based on hormone levels for what makes someone a woman for athletic purposes, any line you draw likely will allow some transgender women to participate anyway and will exclude some cisgender women who are at the far end of the range.  Is it fair to those cisgender women to be excluded just so you can exclude transgender women too?  [/quote]

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