Feel like this thread is going a lot of places.
Is the argument being made:
A) Look, you're talking about 4 kids in the entire state of Utah, this is not a big enough deal to even bother addressing it, it's such an outlier to most athletic competitions it's not worth our time.
or
B) To infringe upon their right to play sports is infringing on their right to happiness, so back off bub.
or is it a combo?
If it's A I mean I guess there's validity. I'm sure there are thousands of kids who get an unfair shake in high school athletics. Their coach is a jerk or incompetent, they got cut by a racist coach, they got screwed by a hometown ref, they are a good player at whatever sport but never got to play on a good team because their school sucks, the booster club is crap so they have crap equipment etc. And you're right, I don't really give any thought to those, I guess we'll call them unfair situations- so why make it such a big deal if one NCAA swimmer or whatever gets a spot taken by a trans swimmer?
I'm thinking about this issue less on a Clay Travis style case by case call for outrage, but more on asking questions like if we all have personal freedom, where does one person's or group of people's personal freedom end and another's begin? There are boundaries.
CF3 let me take a crack at this using an analogy you might better understand. Lets say, you're a sports fan. You don't really care for football or basketball, but you just love the crap out of baseball. you live it, you breathe it, it is your thing. But here's the other thing...you're an A's fan. You didn't choose it. You can't imagine anyone would willingly choose this team to root for. You've tried, god knows you've tried, to be a Dodgers fan or a Yankees fan or a Giants fan, your life would be so much easier if those were your teams. But no. For whatever reason, you just love the crap out of the A's with every fiber of your being.
Ok now so lets switch gears. MLB has noticed there has been an uptick in fights between fans at games. The fanbases overwhelmingly responsible for the fights would be the Yankees, the Dodgers, the Cardinals, and the Braves. The A's fans...they're responsible for, oh, let's say one half of one percent of the fights that happen. But one time an Angels fan got into a scrape with an A's fan and while the Angels fan was pummelling the ever loving crap out of the A's fan, the A's fan managed to reach into his pocket and grab his keys and got in one good swing and put the Angels fan's eye out.
So what happened as a result? Well turns out a few Twins fans happened to see the whole thing and they were mad as hell and they went to the commissioner of baseball and demanded that from now on, before entering any stadium, all A's fans were required to be fully strip searched with cavity check to make sure they weren't bringing in any weapons, that includes keys. This rule only applies to the A's fans, mind you. A's fans, no keys. Any other fanbase...have all the keys you want, we really don't care if you have your keys, after all, its incredibly stupid to forbid a fan from carrying their keys.
So like...how are you, the A's fan, feeling right now? Your life already sucks pretty hard as it is, your team is a perrenial basement dweller, nobody cares about the team, there are like 50 total A's fans in the entire country, and now they want to pile on, over something where its obvious the Angels fan was just feeling really insecure because he has to wear an eye patch now because an A's fan got in a lucky swing during a fight that he started.
Its not a perfect analogy, i realize, but maybe if you try looking at it through that lens does that help at all?