If you’re a cis person you might wonder what sports bans have to do with “risk”. Surely it’s inconvenient but not an actual threat right? It feels like overreacting. It’s designed to feel like overreacting.
Sports is a wedge issue. In terms of assessing risk, it’s not really about the sports themselves, it’s about setting a precedent for legal discrimination. In every case that youth sports bans have passed, it has escalated to denying medical care, bathroom bans, etc. Sports are a canary
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in reply to Danielle Foré • • •I mean, sports bans do also directly cause harm
Sport improves health and wellbeing in a range of ways, physical, mental, social, educational, both for the individual and for the wider community; banning people from participating does very real harm
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in reply to Danielle Foré • •Bigots are gonna bigot, but in doing so underestimate the actual abilities of cis women and that's part of their bigot tradition too. A body does what a body is trained to do, full stop. But bigots religiously can't believe any of that.
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