What Kind of Message is This?

The message the anti-trans crowd is sending to female athletes is a disservice to everyone, not just the transgender athletes they despise, but to cisgender women and girls who do sports, too. What you are telling girls and women who were assigned female at birth is they are not good enough to compete with transgender women for fear the transgender athletes are bigger, stronger, etc.? What kind of message is this? The early womens libbers wanted to compete in everything against other women and against men. Look at Billie Jean King. She did not back down from playing against Bobby Riggs. Look at Janet Guthrie. She did not back down from entering the Indy 500. She competed! Instead of telling trans girls they should play and cis girls they are going to get hurt, if you really believe in equal rights for women, tell those girls to go out there and kick butt! And may the best woman win the game! Be it a trans girl or a cis girl. Dont discourage young women and girls from being competitive. Thats how glass ceilings are broken and barriers smashed. Leave all the athletes alone and let them settle it on the playing field.

–Angela Shipp, Castro Valley