Trans people make up approximately 0.6% of the US population. And of the 500,000 NCAA athletes, approximately 10 of them identified as transgender. TRANS PEOPLE ARE NOT THE ENEMY. Petitions like this one targeting trans women to exclude them from sports and to identify them as a public health threat are absurd. This is an incredibly small portion of our population that is clearly being targeted as a scapegoat during a time of intense political polarization and high stakes culture wars. This obsession with persecuting such a small and vulnerable part of our population is cruel, and not unlike other historical persecutions of similarly vulnerable populations. Trans people have higher suicide rates, homelessness rates, and are more likely to be the victims of violence. Continuing to target this population for exclusion is disgusting and immoral.