Sport for Transsexuals
April 3, 2011 5 Comments
There are various reasons why being a transsexual is actually quite annoying and why it’s much better if you just stay the gender that you are born, assuming that you can without wanting to kill yourself. Sport is one of them. If you are born female it’s pretty difficult to be able to compete against biological men at competitive sport.
I’ve recently been thinking of whether I could take up a sort of sport. I know I should do more excercise, and I know myself too well. I know that I’m not going to be motivated to excercise because it’s good for me (too far away in the future) or because it will help me stay slim (married so no point). I’m going to be motivated by several other possible factors.
- To tick something off on a list. I’m likely to go up a mountain so that I can say that I’ve climbed every mountain over x feet in a certain county. I then take a photo of myself at the top and post on facebook. Being a transsexual doesn’t stop me doing this.
- To not look stupid. If I have raised sponsorship money and agreed to compete in an event then I am damn well going to train for it otherwise I will look stupid, again I can enter all sorts of events as a transsexual and no one need know.
- To win. I know I am quite competitive, but I’m never really going to be able to take up a sport and get good enough at it to compete against biological men.
I love football but again I’d never be able to compete in a local Sunday league, it’s especially difficult for football as I haven’t played it since childhood, whilst most biological men would have played at school. I could just play badminton for fun but if you can’t be the best it seems a bit pointless, that’s rather a ‘medic’ attitude. I’ve started running because the goal in running is often very focuses on beating your personal best. But I am secretly a bit sad that I’ll miss out on the fun that is team sports.
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hello i have just read your blog…my name is scottieboi and i am trying to find other ftms for friendship and support..i live in the uk..it would be good to hear back from you when you get time….until then take care…thanx…….scottieboi……
heh, i can relate to what you mean when it comes to sports for FTMs. I consider myself pretty fit, but I still can’t move as fast, lift as much as bio men. So far I’ve done football, hockey, rowing.. always having to put in 100%, with me lungs almost bursting to match them.
“If you are born female it’s pretty difficult to be able to compete against biological men at competitive sport.”
What about Touch Rugby?
My daughter plays in both mixed and single sex teams in Scotland. Let me know if you want details.
Sorry. I meant to add that Mixed Touch is played all over the UK, Europe and the rest of the world – not just in Scotland.
I’ve got this problem, especially when it comes to sports and binding. As a child i danced, i did karate, i played football i tried every sport available to me really then i stopped when puberty hit and things started developing that i wasnt too keen on other people seeing. binding and still doing sport means that i cant perform at my personal best and it annoys me so much.