I have read several letters to the editor defending Rep. Laurel Libby’s bringing the issue of trans youth in sports to public attention. I want to remind your readers that the method of her bringing this issue to our attention was dangerous to a local trans youth.
Rep Libby doxxed this person (publishing personal information without their consent), therefore putting them in danger. This is a perfect example of how issues get brought up in our current discourse: inflammatory and divisive. Reasonable people can disagree about how sports should be handled. Indeed, when our daughter played basketball, she was one of the shortest people on the team, playing against young women twice her size. However, championing the issue of girls’ sports by scapegoating trans youth is wrong and dangerous and should not be repeated.
Jeanie Barnard, LCSW
Yarmouth
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