Conversation

If you’re a cis person you might wonder what sports bans have to do with “risk”. Surely it’s inconvenient but not an actual threat right? It feels like overreacting. It’s designed to feel like overreacting.

Sports is a wedge issue. In terms of assessing risk, it’s not really about the sports themselves, it’s about setting a precedent for legal discrimination. In every case that youth sports bans have passed, it has escalated to denying medical care, bathroom bans, etc. Sports are a canary