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redline65 posted...

I'm a Texas resident and agree with many of these bills. For example, housing prison inmates according to their biological sex. Putting inmates together who have different sex organs will, of course, result in pregnancy.

Meanwhile, putting trans women in men's prisons puts them at an extremely high risk of being assaulted, raped, and/or killed. Personally, I see that as being a worse outcome than possibly having two consenting adults make a baby together because apparently it's 1784 and the mere existence of an unsupervised penis and vagina in the same room will inevitably lead to pregnancy and scandal. Even more so where that risk can be pretty much entirely eliminated by offering an IUD to the uterus-haver, mitigated even further by ensuring ready access to abortions, and it's likely low in the first place because hormone therapy tends to have pretty adverse effects on fertility. And if the uterus-haver wants to get pregnant in jail, conjugal visits are already a thing without having to bring trans people into the equation, so acting like it's only a problem when trans people are involved means you're either disingenuously hiding behind a flimsy excuse and hoping nobody will notice, or you genuinely didn't think the issue through at all. Neither possibility reflects particularly well on you, so maybe consider a different opinion.

potdnewb posted...

on that note a man who trained to be the best at a sport or event for most their lives who then decides they are a woman should not be allowed to compete against natural born women that trained in the same sport or event since its unfair

Which is why regulations around trans athletes have certain requirements that must be met, including testing hormone levels. Trans athletes have been permitted in the Olympics since 2004. Since then, I believe there have been like three that even qualified to attend and only one that earned a medal (and that was as part of a team, and I don't believe they were considered the MVP). It's not a matter of "a man decides to be a woman and then wins women's sports" for pretty much any meaningful sports organization, and even at other levels pretty much the only time that ever happens is when some alt-right troll decides he wants to make a point (in which case they comprise the full extent of the problem). For those that are actually transitioning, hormone therapy tends to have enough adverse health effects that excelling at sports is a challenge.

The sports issue is one that, hypothetically considering it at face value, seems like it's going to be a real problem, but the fact of the matter is that there's a ton of precedent available to examine, and the supposed domination of trans women in women's sports simply hasn't happened. It still warrants scrutiny to make sure the regulations employed are doing their job properly, and I'm sure further adjustments will be needed moving forward, but the fact of the matter is that categorically banning trans girls and women from girls' and women's sports isn't actually necessary to maintain a level playing field (not that the playing field is ever truly level, because genetic advantages that aren't sex-based get a free pass more often than not).