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Pino’s Response to the NCAA Ban on North Carolina

If I were in position to craft state law here in Raleigh, my response to the NCAA and their ban on NC* would be this:

Simply restrict restroom and locker room access in the exact same manner as the NCAA restricts access to sporting teams in their leagues:

The following policies clarify participation of transgender student-athletes undergoing hormonal treatment for gender transition:

1. A trans male (FTM) student-athlete who has received a medical exception for treatment with testosterone for diagnosed Gender Identity Disorder or gender dysphoria and/or Transsexualism, for purposes of NCAA competition may compete on a men’s team, but is no longer eligible to compete on a women’s team without changing that team status to a mixed team.

2. A trans female (MTF) student-athlete being treated with testosterone suppression medication for Gender Identity Disorder or gender dysphoria and/or Transsexualism, for the purposes of NCAA competition may continue to compete on a men’s team but may not compete on a women’s team without changing it to a mixed team status until completing one calendar year of testosterone suppression treatment.

Any transgender student-athlete who is not taking hormone treatment related to gender transition may participate in sex-separated sports activities in accordance with his or her assigned birth gender.

  • A trans male (FTM) student-athlete who is not taking testosterone related to gender transition may participate on a men’s or women’s team.

  • A trans female (MTF) transgender student-athlete who is not taking hormone treatments related to gender transition may not compete on a women’s team.

The NCAA itself discriminates based on gender.  FURTHER, the organization differentiates between MTF and FTM.

Opposition to HB2 indeed.

North Carolina And Rest Rooms

Rest Rooms

North Carolina just passed a law that is generating a TON of attention in the state; perhaps the country.  In short, the new law prevents cities from passing ordinances that allow people to use restrooms based on the gender they identify as.  Rather, North Carolina now requires that people use the restroom of the sex they are.

I did some research and found this:

Sex is assigned at birth, refers to one’s biological status as either male or female, and is associated primarily with physical attributes such as chromosomes, hormone prevalence, and external and internal anatomy. Gender refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for boys and men or girls and women. These influence the ways that people act, interact, and feel about themselves. While aspects of biological sex are similar across different cultures, aspects of gender may differ.

What North Carolina has done is define access to restrooms based on sex – not on gender.

As such, I feel that the distinction is one that honest and earnest people can disagree on, where a disagreement can exist without casting the opposing side as ‘extreme’, or ‘discriminating’ or even ‘hateful’.

Now, with that said, I firmly believe the law is less a response to a transgendered individual using a restroom as it is a response to a desire to prevent potential sexual predators from entering a restroom having nothing to do with transgender issues.

The protests and response to this law you are seeing in North Carolina  is much ado about nothing.  There is no discrimination.  There is no hate.