In reply to Max Battcher.

Yep, even acknowledging it as a legitimate concern means misgendering trans kids. I don’t know whether that’s Buttigieg being careless or clueless or genuinely wrong, but it was a bone-headed comment regardless.

I don’t even want to give the “issue” any more oxygen because I know I hated how often well-intentioned people talking about marriage equality would compare gay people to penguins. But if they must treat it like a controversy that deserves a response, then yeah, the correct answer is that most non professional sports don’t discriminate between girls by their body types, so if that’s the issue then simply introduce weight classes. Its only a question of “gender” if you deny that trans girls are the gender they say they are.