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I understand what you're saying, and agree that discouraging young people to exercise is preposterous. But sports and competition do matter to a lot of people (especially in the US I think, which comes across way more competitive than Europe), and it's not meaningless to them (neither to trans athletes I might add).
So I would say that your comment will be considered quite disrespectful. Would you say that this large group of people are more, or less inclined to agree with you if they're being called a bigot?
I have no objection to people enjoying sports. Lord knows I enjoy a lot of inconsequential nonsense myself. The bigots I refer to are the people that are using trans people in sports as some sort of civilisation ending issue when it's really not all that serious. They're just using it to push a bigoted agenda that really has less to do with sport as it does their own irrational fears.