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[quote=Anonymous]I'm also torn on this issue. On the one hand, everyone - including transgender - should have the right to compete on sports teams.  Saying "oh they can just go play on a community team" is the same justification that led to school only offering men's teams.  Title IX was an attempt to address that for women, but now trans women are fighting the same battle.

On the other hand, it really is unfair and unsafe to biological women to have trans women playing on their team.

I doubt they'd be accepted on the men's team.  That's not a solution either.

And there just aren't enough trans people to make a third league feasible.

So... Why not eliminate gender from the equation?  The reasons for having separate men's and women's leagues are valid physical reasons without having to call it gender.  Make a "lightweight" league: under a certain height and weight (depending on age), potentially other factors such as body fat (typically much lower in men) or strength (although that would be hard to measure accurately and fairly).  This league would predominately be comprised of women, but possibly also open to the smaller men who previously had not had a chance on any sports teams.  The "heavyweight" league would look more like the traditional men's league, but also potentially some of the bigger/stronger women (think Serena Williams). Trans women would go onto whichever team they physically match.  To really capture everyone, you could even have an ultralightweight league for the smallest females, if there was enough demand for it.[/quote]

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