This one is particularly frustrating because there are serious and urgent issues about trans people in sports, and by drawing all the attention to a made-up problem, they prevent us from discussing the serious issues. Isaac Ranson, a trans man, signed and played this season in the USLW, a women’s development league, for the Minnesota Aurora (who I don’t want to paint as a villain here; I deeply believe they are working their hardest to make women’s soccer a welcome and accepting place for all and doing their best to make good from a bad situation). We desperately need to make sure that Isaac understands that he is a man, and it would be inappropriate to allow people to treat him as if he were a woman so that he will play for their sports team. But we can’t have the real discussion about how and when players who are transitioning move between leagues because we’re too busy shouting about a problem that doesn’t exist.