Transgender Sports Persuasive Speech

In the article titled Face-off on the playing field By, Judith B. Stamper explains girls have their own story of support or discrimination, success also the debate of girls be allowed to compete on boys’ sports team. First, the writer Title IX explains female athletes are been treated second-class for long enough and should pass of inequalities and biases of girls. The writer also clarifies that girls doing sports make them healthier, physically, and emotionally. Other girls that don’t play sports are less likely to use of drugs. In addition, she notes a former Stanford University basketball player Mariah says, strength and independence of things girls learn from sports, the opportunities that are changing women.

Furthermore, there are noticeable physical differences, such as height, muscle mass, and lung capacity, which can further influence athletic performance between transgender females and biological females. Joanna Harper, a researcher investigating transgender athletic performance at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom, stated that “.... hormone therapy

Molly Quinton, Sexism in Sports (2016), argues that there is sexism in sports against women. The essay appeals to pathos because she uses her life examples to have other people relate to her, which uses emotion. Molly Quinton, argues this in order to get people to realize how much sexism there is in sports. She also argues this to get people to acknowledge this so they can stop discluding women and acknowledge that girls know things about sports, they can like what they want to. This essay is directed at the men who discourage women and don't understand that women can like and play sports too.

Analysis – Section 1: Sex Tests To give a brief background, sex tests were created and administered by the International Olympics Committee Medical Commission (IOCMC) in 1966, and is used against women who had more masculine features than their peers. Jayne Caudwell, author of Sporting Gender: Women's Footballing Bodies As Sites/Sights For The (Re) Articulation Of Sex, Gender, And Desire, researched female-athletes and their experience with oppression in that sense. In fact, the test is designed so that men cannot get away with playing as a woman (Caudwell 378).

In today’s society, transgender and sex changes are more commonly seen and talked about. The IOC or the International Olympic Committee recently has passed that transgender women aren’t required to undergo gender-reassignment surgery. The IOC main focus is about an equal playing field for all athletes and being accepting to all races, gender, and nationality. However, multiple factors would cause issues on fairness to allow transgender athlete compete in their new sex. Therefore, athletes in the Olympic Games that have declared a different gender than they were born with should not be allowed to represent their country unless, participating in the athletes’ original sexual genotype.

This past week, Josh Norman, an immensely popular and talented football player, became a free agent and decided to sign with a new team. That new team just happened to be the Washington Redskins, who rewarded him with a guarantee of over 50 million dollars. What I don’t understand, however, is how a professional sports team is called the ‘Redskins’. Growing up, I have always been a huge fan of sports, both as a spectator and a participant. Starting in the 7th grade, we were required to wear a shirt and tie to school the day of a game.

In the article, “Title IX defeats male athletes” by Ann Coulter, she says that male’s teams are being decimated in pursuit of an insane feminist dream that has morphed into feral policy: to make women’s sports equal to men’s, but really this shouldn’t have happened. Women play different sports than men do, sports are all different, and they shouldn’t have to be equal. Some sports are for men, some sports are for women, and some sports are for both. Some of the sports that are for men, could be too competitive or too complicated, but the sports that are for women exist so that women don’t have to play a sport that might be too hard for them. So in a way, men’s and women’s sports are already equal if you think about it because there is something for men to play and something for women

Athletes are less likely to be diagnosed with diseases like obesity and heart disease because of exercise (“Athletics”). Women are also given gender equality. Gender equality gives women all around over the United States the right to play sports and to be given the same opportunities as men. “Before Title IX was enacted, the main sports women participated in were cheerleading and dance (“Before”). Title IX has opened up many new opportunities for female athletes such as, higher education access, equal opportunities in athletics, and increased self confidence for women

This gender and diversity interview was conducted with Victoria Mealer-Flowers, the Student-Athlete Development Sr. Manager for Community Engagement and DEI Programs at Brown University Athletics. A range of topics were discussed pertaining to gender and diversity in sport, including racism, LGBTQ+ athletes, ableism, religion and privilege. Mealer-Flowers’s overarching stance on the state of diversity, equity and inclusion in sport is that the pertinent issues have evolved, rather than changed. Rather than having administrators trying to introduce and impose DEI topics and conversations with student-athletes and teams, it is the student-athletes who are taking charge and pursuing social activism of their own volition. Mealer-Flowers attributes

Women athletes and women workers do not get the recognition they deserve. Men especially, look down upon women when it comes to their appearances, their knowledge and a women's physical and mental strength. In certain cases, a woman loses out on a job in the sports industry because she is exactly a woman. A male trainer can refuse to train women because of the parts her body has. Men and women have grown up in a world with the mindset that women know less than men when it comes to sports.

The social theories that I have chosen to focus on are Conflict Theory and Feminist Theory. I have decided to study these concepts as they share both similar and contradictory ideas of sport participation and power in sport. I will also explore the topic of disability and sport in an attempt to illustrate the great need for integration of athletes with disabilities into mainstream clubs and teams. Finally, I will investigate the area of sexuality and sport, a subject which I believe has remained very much concealed until recent times. Conflict theory states that “social order is based on economic interests and the use of economic power to exploit labour”.

When athletes have higher testosterone levels, they tend to be stronger and faster. In “Olympic Lady Gender Testing?” SourceFed states, “The I.A.A.F. policy wants to ban female athletes with high levels of testosterone” (Olympic Lady Gender Testing, Bereta & Newton). Joe Bereta and Lee Newton discuss how people produce testosterone at different levels that we can’t control. If we are not in control of our testosterone levels that is produced, then we should not be penalizing when it comes to fair competition.

It is crucial to understand that hormone therapy has limitations and may not eliminate the physical advantages that biological males possess. While hormone therapy can align a person's hormone levels with their gender identity, there may still be inherent advantages to being born male that cannot be reversed. Hormone therapy is sometimes suggested as a way to create fairness for transgender male athletes competing against cisgender female athletes. However, there are limitations to hormone therapy, including potential ineffectiveness in completely reversing the physical advantages that biological men possess (Harper,2015). Additionally, hormone therapy does not guarantee adequate balance in competition.

Gender Inequality in sports is an issue as old as sport itself. I choose this topic because we as a society seem to sweep it under the rug time after time. Women in sports however, try to address the issue only to have it go on deaf ears, leaving them to continue in the sport hoping something will change. Over the last few decades, strides have been made, but he sport remains an institution dominated by men. These women, whether they are in sport or in the business world, want a fair chance to be on the same level as their male counterparts.

Gender neutral bathrooms will always be a topic of discussion in everyone lives, however the emotional and economic toll the restrooms would have on others could change someone’s life for the worse. If transgender male and females used their biological corresponding gender facilities, we could lessen those tolls to a minimum. The IOC has tried effortlessly to expand the opportunities for transgender athletes, but just reducing the amount of hormones in the athlete cannot change that they will always have an advantage over non-transgender competitors. One may see the tenacity and the empowerment of transgender movements unnecessary and annoying, but hopefully in future, everyone will see that these peoples stories should inspire others to stand up for what they believe