- United States
- Mich.
- Letter
I'm asking you to publicly oppose bans on transgender athletes and support legislation that protects them from discriminatory exclusion across all sports.
These bans claim to protect fairness, but they're designed to discriminate. In precision sports like darts, there's no credible argument that being transgender creates a competitive advantage. Players of all body types compete successfully. If physical characteristics like height and reach determined outcomes, every tall player would dominate, which clearly isn't the case. Yet sports organizations are commissioning reports to justify predetermined conclusions rather than examining actual competitive data.
Transgender athletes who have competed for years without controversy are suddenly being stripped of their careers based on fearmongering, not evidence. These bans follow a disturbing pattern of systematically excluding transgender people from public life. The argument that they can compete in "open" divisions misses the point entirely. These athletes earned their places through skill and dedication, and they deserve to keep them.
What competitive advantage does a transgender person have in darts, or archery, or shooting? None. These bans aren't about fairness. They're about exclusion. Stand against this discrimination and protect transgender athletes' right to compete.