A Transgender Volleyball Players' Path to an NCAA Women's Team | Identify

Follow volleyball athlete Chloe Anderson as she heads to UC-Santa Cruz and meets her new NCAA team-mates for the first time. The Identify series shows the inspiring journey of five transgender athletes and how sport helped them find their true identity.

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[LOLcheeseORZ]

I'm all for equality but I'm also for having common sense.

[azay]

"She's a strong volley ballplayer and she's very tall" smh yeah I wonder why.

[roban]

There's a sad moment at 12:10, where the girl says "Either accept it or you're not welcome here, 'cause we include everyone." She clearly doesn't realize how she contradicting herself in a single sentence. We accept "everyone", as long as they believe what we believe.

[thangvuong]

This is not fair, I was transgender for many years and I happen to play volleyball, I was asked many times to play at a very high level in women's leagues, I never accepted those invitations because I knew I had an inherently unfair advantage. Sometimes certain choices open new doors, but they can also close other doors, those are just realities of life.

[wolverine]

"I definitely can't jump as high as I used to."
Understandable. But can you jump higher than a woman of equal size and training?

[punimaheo]

2019:Everything is a joke
Strongest man: Male
Strongest women: Male

[annabellelee]

I feel sorry for the girl who was injured so badly by the transgender player whose volleyball hit her so hard that she has a major concussion and neck injuries.

[edmundomurillo]

I guess this is a good way to make second or even third rate athletes feel important.

[hgfffdfh]

2017 is like a 2000 South park episode

[ngyardhasngyardhas]

"she has a lot of power, she's also tall" literally the two strengths they look for in almost every single male athlete, and literally the two reasons we have segregated game sports.

[solobackpacking]

Why is Chloe so against being on the men's team?
I am sure they will accept her as long as she QUALIFIES.
IDENTIFY seems to be a get out of jail card for mediocre male players.

[ejiroetisyan]

She's got a lotta balls. Like literally.

[cryforthemoon]

Why even bother separating the genders if you're going to make women compete against biological males? It doesn't matter if their hormones are comparable, it's about the bones structure etc. I wish this athlete the best with their life, but I feel bad for biological girls that trained for so long only to be beat by a biological male.

[EatSuck]

Do you feel proud that now a biological female has lost a position on that volleyball team?

[lilyrose]

There is a reason there are gender based separation in competitive sports, males are biologically stronger so how is this fair to the other females competing?
This is taking the phrase "its a mans world" to another level.Instead of finding an actual space for trans individuals in sports, allowing a trans person to compete with biological females is unfair.Its not backyard sports just for fun, this is competitive, and a team that wants to win will take only strong players.If more trans athletes show up, wont more women lose their opportunities?Only biological gender should be considered in sports, otherwise its an injustice to the other people competing.

[petergeisel]

„It‘s an unfounded scientific fear.“ Wait whut? Clearly someone never heard of basic biolegy

[KrunchyJD]

There should be a separate sports category for trans women. Then it would be fair.

[BFusey]

What a story. Some say she’s as strong and fast as a man on the court. Incredible

[yiu-hsinchang]

Even if she lost some muscle after estrogen therapy, she is still benefits from her origin male body. For example, she may have lighter and smaller hip joint. By the way, the angle between pelvis and femur also affects athletes' performance and it is one of the reason why in average males run faster than females. I think estrogen therapy can't change someone's hip joint size, the angle of pelvis as well as height. To be honest, I don't think it's fair.

[SAINTSROWANGEL]

"You are not welcome here because we include everyone" lmao the irony