WASHINGTON — Southern Minnesota’s representative in Congress, Brad Finstad, weighed on on the high school athletics gender issue. He’s against it. Finstad, a Republican, said he supports the Trump investigation into the Minnesota public policy that bans discrimination based on gender choice. It would be fine with him, Finstad said, if Trump cancelled federal money to Minnesota schools because of the state’s on-discrimnaion policy. Finstad recited the Trump view that it’s physically unfair, even dangerous, for athletes born as boys to compete in girls sports. Both Trump and Finstad are locked into the concept that sports competition needs to be delefined by gender rather than more relevant gender-free criteria like weight.
Cmment: On transgender girls in sports
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Finstad: “Girls deserve a fair playing field in competitive sports, which the State of Minnesota has denied them by allowing biological males to take roster positions, scholarships, and even championships away from them. As a dad and husband to strong female athletes, I’m glad to see the Trump Administration upholding fairness and equal opportunities in women’s athletics programs by investigating Minnesota’s continued efforts to undermine Title IX protections against biological men playing on girls’ sports teams.”
Finstad. Mired in 150-year-old fuddy-duddy notion, dating to 1870s, on gender as the defining criterion for athletics.