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Yet another example of vibes based policy that could be solved by a good spreadsheet.

I'd like to see the polling on the death penalty for little league refs among red-faced dads.

Yeah, we’re talking about the high nuanced conversations of grown ass adults yelling at children in public and shutting down t-ball games so the day can be about them. No one should follow these people.

I feel like every parent who has been to a junior semifinals for any semi competitive sport knows B) in their fucking bones. As does any child who participated in those events and hasn't managed to fully repress the memories yet.

She voted to fund ICE. I don't give a fuck what she thinks.

This is not about sports at all or about anything other than Republicans feeding red meat to their rabid, hateful, intolerant supporters.

Angry sports parents will out-Nazi the actual Nazis if it means their kids don't have to compete too hard

Also maybe college should be less expensive so people aren’t moonshotting an athletic scholarship to make it affordable.

I proudly pay my school taxes. I am not proud that part of those funds enables the moronic fury of overly-competitive parents, especially if they're bigots.

That one trans girl took every scholarship, for every sport. It's so unfair.

This is all in service of "My kid can't have lost, the other team must be secretly trans" and also "I'm the school coach and I want to do genital inspections on all the girls"

I can attest to the fact that sports teams parents and coaches in school and club teams are insane! My daughter was a great athlete from the age of 3, cause she LOVED playing but got so turned off by the politics of it all by the time she was a junior. Parents of 5-YO boys believe they are MLB bound

not practic8ng the fundamentals is illegal in this state, you better hustle or it's jailtime buddy

"I'm supporting a new law requiring referees to put on their glasses when asked to do so by enough parents at a sufficient volume"

I am really hoping her primary challenger wins

I think hidden in this is a sickness in and of itself, sports as a means for your child to support themselves (and their parents) if they get the opportunity to go pro. Sports should be about fun and growth, not dollars.

Also - if the issue is the perception that scholarships, which are necessary to pay for education, are taken away maybe that is the issue? Why do these parents need a scholarship to send their children to college? Maybe the US could finally make higher education free?

Forget how many trans girl athletes there are, let's say her premise was accurate, let's say a trans girl did get a scholarship somewhere and a parent was pissed about it. She's saying she thinks that parent would be right! That's an insanely bigoted thing to think!

Incidentally, my hs is where the school bathroom SC case originated

*imagine

C) none of these kids is actually getting a sports scholarship

Anyone who's ever attended a little league game should know "b".

And if it is, it’s due to climate change, not trans girls/women whose muscle mass is well within established guidelines. If anything, HRT puts them at an all-around disadvantage. This type of ignorance is precisely why we can’t have nice things.

hey i’m sorry you didn’t save for your kid’s college, but it’s not that other kid’s fault yours isn’t athletic

people who had spent the last 12 years sucking all the fun out of a game that their child plays with skill nowhere near enough to play in college, let alone as a scholarship recipient, and definitely not enough to do as a career you know this of course!!!

And (for someone educated in the UK back in the “good” times), sports-based admissions/scholarships to college is way weirder than all y’all seem to grasp.

The worst place on earth is where two different groups of sports parents sit near each other in the middle of the sideline/behind the backstop. One time I thought I was going to have to fight a Romanian guy from Detroit because a 4’11” 85lb mom on our side was getting mouthy.

if we let hockey dads make legislation there's going to be public executions of 9 year olds

Ok but even if there were thousands of them, as a citizen of a country where higher education is free, it doesn't seem to me at all like the trans people are to blame for these problems

My 6 year-old niece plays 'basher ball' which is essentially entry-level softball for our district. Even here, where the goal is to teach little kids *not* to trip over their own feet when running bases, parents are screaming lunatics. These are not serious individuals who should be reasoned with.

It reminds me of how when Kentucky passed a ban on trans athletes, the only person affected was a 13 year old kid who had started a field hockey team at her school. bsky.app/profile/clay...

The Supreme Court is going to pass a ruling that it’s ok to kill little league umpires next

Happily reposting this everytime someone post things about trans athlete youtube.com/shorts/NRXb-...

That's the same all over the world... sports tech is expensive, the specially designed running shoes with the fancy soles, the aerodynamically designed tennis rackets etc, Parents with the money/time to take the kids to meets and training every day, plus coaching fees. The US just went one bigger.

This. Would free tuition help make this issue dry up and blow away like a tumbleweed?

And it's almost always the big prestigious Big Ten/SEC universities that angry sports parents obsess about.

There's an article I once read where apparently 1 in 9 parents with children involved in sports believe their kids are going to go pro or make the Olympics and I think it explains a great deal about how the trans sports panic came to be.

Sports cost money, put that money into their college fund or use it on tutors to help them achieve an academic scholarship. Fin!

"So, how many trans athletes does his Order actually affect? Based on available data, along with Teen Vogue’s own reporting, Trump’s Order likely targets fewer than 160 of the more than 8 million student athletes in the country." -Teen Vogue www.teenvogue.com/story/trumps...

Also... IDK, maybe college should be free so we don't have to commit 800 bajillion hours while praying that your kid is exceptional at sports in order to afford it? Pick your battles people...

500,000 NCAA athletes. Fewer than 10 trans. This is stranger danger nonsense.

Angry sports parents are some of the worst losers in our society. Get a life toxic soccer dads and hockey moms.

Even disregarding this issue, sports parents are very often appalling abusive self-centred assholes.

Honestly, angry sports parents deserve to eat shit on principle and the vast numbers of normal parents will be glad to see somebody shit on the worst person in the stands at their kid's game

if your kid IS that good, you would not be worrying about it because you'd already have recruiters on the line

Parents who didn't realize they should've switched their child over to debate team at least 10 years ago and somehow that's a transgender kid's fault.

Didn’t check to see who was pointing it out or what points were made but …. If you don’t KNOW that your kid can get a scholarship, they probably can’t. Exceptions exist and people improve but e.g. all the champion-level swimmers in my school were recognizable as such freshman year.

I did some light googling and I was wildly off there, but assuming the numbers I found were right (and that there's an equal number of men and women's scholarships) you're still looking at only 1,500-1,800 slots for women in each state

Finally find me ONE SINGLE instance of someone transitioning earning a scholarship as a Trans woman and then detransitioning after reopening these glorified rewards. IT DOES NOT EXIST. I suspect the number of Trans women who were ever offered a sports based scholarship to be single digits nationwide

And if your daughter truly is ticketed for WNBA stardom, or even some minor scholarship at a good school, some rando high school Trans girl isnt going to hold that back.

Hey it's not their kid it's their student lol

And if they just took all the money they spent on travel teams and equipment and tutors, they’d have had a good start to paying for college

I think it isn't so much the scholarships but preferential treatment in admissions for recruited athletes, even at schools that don't offer athletic scholarships (fancy private colleges, Ivies, etc), which is a fucked up thing in and of itself

Anyways, the Royals drafted him, and he spent a decade in the minor leagues before retiring Turns out that getting to the pros is damn near impossible to do even if you are a top 0.1% athlete at your sport 🤷‍♀️

I remember him because he was being recruited to play football and baseball at Nebraska. We are all disappointed when he didn't come to Lincoln.

I went to middle school with a girl who went on to play D3 basketball, and she wasn't exactly struggling to kick my ass

BPJ was competing. And managed to do an effort that was good enough on the day to win the meet. For that she gets to never compete with her friends ever again. What are we doing here?

This speaks to the deep rot within youth sports.

They could put that same energy into just fundraising for their kids or a scholarship fund

There's also a d), being that, almost by definition, kids who lose an athletic scholarship lose them to better athletes. It doesn't make sense to implement a policy designed to ban someone for simply being a better athlete.

One father was convinced his son was going to be a starting QB at USC. This was a sophomore who was 5'3", 150 lbs and in my "let's get you some extra help with English" class. Dude, your son will be lucky to attend community college. Great kid. Loves metalworking. Let him do that.

As a coach, this is absolutely correct. You think Gretchen Walsh gives a shit about Riley Gaines bullshit? Lol, LMAO even

It won't! Check any major record and it never ever matters

Especially any kind of non-team sport with a time/distance scoring. If your kid is 7 seconds off pace of a competitive 400m time, they're getting a scholarship whether they win or finish tied for 5th with a trans girl.

That's what's crazy. Even if you believe we need to have a discussion about trans-eligibility in sports, you're talking about like .001% of athletes. Republicans act like this is the most critical issue in all of America.

OMG b). I live in serious high school sports country and the high school radio station that I listen too (which is excellent btw) regularly runs PSAs that basically tell parents to chill the fuck out.

Kids sports isn't a lottery ticket, the reward is literally "the friends we made along the way"

I struggled to understand how lynching could ever be a thing until I encountered angry sports parents.

Right, especially sports parents who are convinced that their kids aren’t getting athletic scholarships because of trans kids…

Unless that policy is pillorying anyone who screams at an 8 year old over soccer?

The reason is to serve as a wedge to start pulling apart mainstream support for trans rights and acceptance. Calling them all groomers didn’t work, scaring parents about sports did. Now trans people have fewer rights and the means to continue persecution is approved. The reality never mattered.

Gluesenkamp Perez probably is an angry sports parent if she has kids.

My kids are both retired, but I started competing in the adult category, so I’m still pretty involved, although not on the same level. My eldest daughter is also trans, although she was done competing by the time she came out, so we never had to deal with that particular brand of bullshit.

But also even if it were literal millions of trans girls it would still be fucked to up to try and eradicate them from society. Like I agree that how overblown it is makes it ridiculous on the face but also it would still be ridiculous and cruel if their numbers were accurate.

My younger sister aged 10 or so suffered horrendous abuse as a referee from the same a-holes that are on about trans, nothing about this is about protecting girls.