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Trans people: ~1% of the US population. Trans women: less than 1%. So what’s the percentage of junior high/high school age trans girls who *want to participate in sports*? Enough that you’re gonna force all children (except cis boys) to stand naked to be judged? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The Guardian Headline: 'Invasive and extreme': doctors fight anti-trans measure requiring genital exams for student athletes Lede: A Washington referendum has drawn broad opposition from adults who work with queer and trans teens

"I tell my kids and patients that my No 1 job is to keep them safe," said Gellner, who is also a board member of the Washington State Nurses Association. "I can say with confidence that girls do not want to have an unnecessary exam that creates an unsafe barrier." As attacks on transgender rights have accelerated under the Trump administration, four states have placed measures on the November ballot to further erode those protections, with a focus on banning trans teens from participating in school sports. (Similar restrictions have already been implemented in 27 states.) Though LGBTQ+ groups have long fought against anti-trans policies, the proposal in Washington has drawn broad opposition from adults who work with queer and trans teens, including many healthcare providers, teachers and counselors. Over the past few weeks, as midterm election organizing has ramped up, Gellner and nurses across the state have campaigned against the initiative by speaking at press conferences, canvassin

'Making a villain out of trans girls' The wave of measures targeting transgender youths' participation in sports followed a supreme court decision in June that ruled such bans are constitutional. At the same time, dozens of hospitals have discontinued care for trans youth after Trump threatened to withhold federal funding. Yet the groups that such policies are supposedly targeting are often exceptionally small: the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association has said that it is aware of only about 10 student athletes who identify as transgender out of more than 200,000 in the state. A sex-verification requirement adds another barrier for girls to participate in team sports, Loft said, when they are already twice as likely as boys to drop out by age 14.

Wikipedia article: Larry Nassar Article Talk *A Lawrence Gerard Nassar (born August 16, 1963)[" is an American convicted serial sex offender and former family medicine osteopathic physician. He served as a team doctor for the United States women's national gymnastics team from 1996 to 2014, where he used his position to exploit and sexually assault hundreds of young athletes as part of the largest sexual abuse scandal in sports history. Nassar was a team physician at Michigan State University under William Strampel from 1997 to 2016, and multiple student athletes reported his inappropriate behavior.

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@lydz.eurosky.social23 Oct 04:55 UTC
This is genocide denial. Multiple international organizations call what trans people are experiencing is in fact a genocide. If you know the definition of genocide, you can clearly apply several of the qualifications are met. It requires only one of those requirements be defined as such.
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