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mrjoncryer.bsky.social • 7 days ago

Also there’s almost no statistical evidence trans athletes have an advantage at sports.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lindseyedarvin/2024/04/25/transgender-athletes-could-be-at-a-physical-disadvantage-new-research-shows/

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tgagemurphy.bsky.social•7 days ago

According to the GOP, trans people are too strong for sports but not strong enough for the military.

msbak.bsky.social•7 days ago

Our president is a dick.

cptdoomdc.bsky.social•7 days ago

The idea that XY chromosomes automatically make you bigger, stronger and faster is idiotic in a world that has given us Timothee Chalamet and Lynda Carter.

liberalrocks.bsky.social•7 days ago

Ok Maga, let's pretend that you're premise is correct and they are trying to sneak into sports with an unfair advantage. If someone is willing to take years transforming their entire body and identity in order to beat me at some game, they clearly want it more than I do and deserve the damn trophy.

satanlaughing.com•7 days ago

Then why have women's sport at all? You know that's not true. Let's just eliminate women's sport then? Let's make this easy and declare us all equal in all things!

kprclc.bsky.social•7 days ago

Rather than splitting athletes into two overlapping categories of wildly differing abilities based on their genitals, maybe it would be fairer to use ability categories - similar to boxing weight categories.

satanlaughing.com•7 days ago

What about team sports, like football?

kprclc.bsky.social•7 days ago

Good example, football teams play in categories based on ability - all the way up to the Premier League.

satanlaughing.com•7 days ago

Sure, let's do that. Is it weight based, reflex time, strength, wingspan, age, etc.? How would you divide them?

kprclc.bsky.social•7 days ago

Varied for different sports, the sports themselves can do it by what makes sense for them.

But mostly by ability.

I’ve beaten plenty of men in my sport.

liveloudwithpride.bsky.social•7 days ago

I’m wondering how much of this hate is actually anti trans. I’m sure some of it is, but the abhorrent attacks and rhetoric excludes trans men. It’s like they don’t exist. We constantly hear “what makes a woman a woman” other disgraceful commentary. So, how much of it is anti trans or anti women?

hobopoet.bsky.social•7 days ago

They are using it to take women's rights away. They are going to parlay this into getting rid of Title IX.

They'll start by making it so grossly dehumanizing (genital checks) that parents won't encourage their daughters to play and then use low participation to get rid of it.

liveloudwithpride.bsky.social•7 days ago

You’re absolutely correct! It’s so obvious to me because I’ve never heard any outrage about a trans man on a man’s sports team! Trans women have become their scapegoat for a much larger agenda.

hobopoet.bsky.social•7 days ago

This is not to mitigate that it is also deeply and first anti trans.

ceindeed.bsky.social•7 days ago

That doesn’t matter. Trans people are the designated group to hate these days. We must hate them, statistics don’t matter. Hating Trans people is the “Christian” thing to do.

fuzzypissykitty.bsky.social•7 days ago

How the Republicans made the jump from sports fair play to trans people shouldn’t exist at all is beyond me.

Now they remove gender affirming care and ban drag shows is just hate filled. I can’t fucking hate them enough!

totallyrandombut.bsky.social•7 days ago

Because they started with trans people shouldn't exist and backwards engineered their way into getting people to agree with them.

liberatedwoman.bsky.social•7 days ago

So true. You can’t tell ignorant bigots that. Trans have just become a distraction for the administration so they can continue to destroy this nation.

greatfausto.bsky.social•6 days ago

A fabricated crisis just like the migrant caravans that disappear after every election

guitarman66.bsky.social•7 days ago

Anyone with a problem is hiding something in the closet.

kill3r-t0fu.bsky.social•7 days ago

MAGA Not giving a shit about sports any other day of the year

MAGA when there's a trans person participating: HOW DARE YOU RUIN MY SPORT!!! YOU'RE RUINING THE SANCTITY OF COMPETITION!!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

drvickyharris.bsky.social•7 days ago

It’s not like we studied it much yet. Testosterone doping for 20 years before a transition could be an advantage.

But stay with the science and stay a trans ally. Always. And how about skills based sports like archery being mixed anyway?!

jojoblueskywalker.bsky.social•7 days ago

😣 Good to know. Discrimination is and has always been illogical.

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