While there is a lot of noise about trans athlete performance, I’m curious about a more practical point : Locker-room. I can’t think about many sport facilities having individual locker-rooms, but usually it’s a room for men, a room for women each with communal shower.

How do you practically manage-it ? How do you get invited/welcomed to your post-transition locker room ? What about the feature left from the assigned-at-birth gender ? What happen when you start developing feature of your transition gender but don’t pass well enough to switch locker-room ?

I may be totally wrong but I wonder whether it’s not more a blocking-point for trans athlete than rules in competition (which impact a minority of athlete anyway) but at the same time we never hear about “sport facilites” opening some “gender non conforming locker-room” for more inclusion.

  • RedSeries (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I take it you are being sincere, but with how places like the UK and US have been ruling in regards to spaces like that, what do you expect us to tell you?

    What happen when you start developing feature of your transition gender but don’t pass well enough to switch locker-room ?

    If other people weren’t so close minded and dangerous towards trans folks it wouldn’t matter. As of right now it’s “hide the best we can” because the alternative is cis people harassing or assaulting us.

    • Ziggurat@jlai.luOP
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      3 days ago

      I get the downvotes thx,

      But actually it’s a real question. Every time I hear about the trans athlete debate, I feel like locker rooms are a bigger problem than competition.

      The whole hide strategysucks, because it basically means waiting to passgood enough to join a new club, not great for people enjoying their hobby

      • RedSeries (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        I literally did not (and cannot due to my instance) downvote you.

        Every time I hear about the trans athlete debate, I feel like locker rooms are a bigger problem than competition.

        Yeah? You wanna expand on that some more or you want me to draw my own conclusions on what the debate is or why being in a locker room is something requiring debate?

        • Ziggurat@jlai.luOP
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          3 days ago

          I get that you are pretty sensitive, but not trying to troll or anything. I never said that there is a need for a debate.

          I just see that very few sport facilities are explicitly inclusive, and that the moment where you change locker room must be kinda weird. It also looks like the kind of issues a mayor could easily fix but it’s mostly not done.