Megan Rapinoe Laid Out Exactly Why Anti-Trans Sports Bans Are Cruel
glamour.comTime that the 1972 legislation prohibiting discrimination based on sex in schools hasn’t meant total equity for all student athletes—particularly for transgender young people.While called “transformational” legislation, she also noted that it likely has the same blind spots that exist in society. “I’m sure there’s a racial blind spot.
I’m sure there’s an LGBTQ blind spot. I’m sure there’s an immigrant blind spot, all of that,” she said. “Title IX is also charged with handling sexual assault and rape on college campuses.
We know that that is continuing to be rampant and underreported.”As states across the country propose and pass legislation barring transgender students from school sports, Rapinoe said these laws aren’t about athletics; they’re about people’s lives.“I think people also need to understand that sports is not the most important thing in life, right?
Life is the most important thing in life. And so much of this trans inclusion argument has been put through the extremely tiny lens of elite sports,” she said. “Like that is not the way that we need to be framing this question.
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