cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/13118934
Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet.
Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well.
In December 2024 the NCAA counted just under 510,000 collegiate level athletes. That same year less than 10 of them were transgender.
One study found that of the trans women who competed in sports about 41% of them did improve their competition level.
However, the sample size used to determine this statistic was 52 transgender women over a period of 8 years.
This problem is so niche that it’s difficult to even study.
They have us all worked up over nothing, in the interim all trans people see is people debating our rights and fixating on all the ways we might be different.
Trans people are famously under-represented in sports as a percentage of our overall population… mostly because we are terrified of the bad optics and the circus it brings.