For boys, the appeal of declaring themselves to be “transgender” in order to compete against physically smaller and weaker girls will fade when the number of “transgenders” becomes so high that there are few to no actual girls in girls’ sports. At that time, they’ll just be competing against other boys (who share their atrocious sense of fashion).
It’s a shame. I grew up in a time when women had to fight to have woman-only sports. For a long time, it looked like we had won that fight. But not any more.
It’s the end of women’s sport and everyone knows it.
The politics of this could favor the right though, which makes it frustrating that it’s not getting more traction.
The Democrat coalition can’t survive without the suburban “soccer moms”; and none of them can be comfortable with their daughters getting hurt playing sports with boys on girls teams. Brave and articulate young women like Riley Gains are slowly moving the Overton window to a place where it will OK for those soccer moms to publicly object to this, and that’s a huge problem for the Democrats.
In desperation the Dem strategists are leaning in to the abortion issue at the state level, but with even a minimally competent opposition party, this “boys in girls sports” madness would at minimum seriously conflict a portion of that key voting demographic.
But political malpractice is very on-brand for the GOP, so I’m not holding my breath.