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