I am not following you, are you suggesting that it be left up to competitors to decide to compete or not. Thus, it is okay to let men compete against women in the women category or women’s sports?
This nonsense will end when women and girls stop signing up for these stupid social engineering exercises and form their own sports leagues. This one step alone will likely mean the end of collegiate and high school sports — because under the ludicrous application of Title IX today, an NCAA school with zero women competing in sports may have to shut down all its men’s sports teams, too.
These women ought to grow up and act like adults instead of running to government to solve a problem that they are perfectly capable of solving themselves.
If there’s a “bad guy” in the case of this misfit “Lia” Thomas competing in women’s sports, it’s the NCAA and the schools that allow this charade to go on. Getting a state legislature and a governor involved only serves to help obscure that.
What does the Birth Certificate say? They SHOULD say Male or Female. Anything else is flat denial of reality and provably so.
When I played Pee Wee sports, I supplied my BC. When I got my Drivers License, a BC. Now some will say “why should a BC be required to be biologically accurate”? To make sure Boys go to girls prisons, boys register for the draft, boys play sports with boys and girls play with girls. Women DESERVE to play in an all female sports league as do men. For that matter, men deserve to have all male clubs, gyms, locker rooms, showers, swimming days at a pool etc. At the VFW we had a womens auxiliary for wives of veterans. Veterans had priority no matter the sex of individuals. All were members, but treated differently, as were children of veterans. Allowed, but under different rules. The same should apply to all.
The argument that one male who “says he is female” to go to prison, or access to the females locker room is specious. The ONE can go hang with the boys, for the safety of the girls. That applies to locker rooms, dressing rooms, sports and prisons.