Some teen-age girls are amazons physically – big, brawny and not to be messed with. Some teen boys are petite and scrawny but motivated. To their discredit, people who want to ban transgender girls from sports because they make competition unsafe would deny them equal opportunities. That’s not good. A solution worthy of us 21st century mortals is to reconsider the categorizing sports by gender. Boxing might gjve us guidance — feather weight, welter weight and heavy weight. Let’s spend our energy on devising gender-free categories for sports. Perhaps “flyweight football” and “cruiser weight football.” Let’s think outside the box and do the right thing for all kids, whatever their gender. /jv
