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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
It is a very complicated situation in US higher education because of sports scholarships being so huge and so important, and higher education being so expensive. I don't just wonder "if" some males would disingenuously identify as trans "temporarily" in their late teens in order to secure a sports scholarship (if half decent but not good enough to secure one in the male sport) - I think it's flat-out inevitable and even, to an extent, understandable that they'd consider it.
That said, I personally think the main issue there is more to do with the US higher education system, the ridiculous amount of money involved in college sport, sky high tuition fees, and lucrative sports scholarships in general. The whole thing is an unhealthy mess, but baked right into American education culture (I mean, how many teen films and TV shows has the "pressure of the big sports scholarship" featured in?)
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Of course that's also an issue but it's a separate one imo and should be another topic of debate entirely. This imo should fall into the same topic of sex based categories in sports for fairness and for safety (depending on the sport) Gender identity should not trump sex in the biological sense when it comes to sport