Tall athletes have a biological advantage when it comes to basketball but no one wants to kick Wemby out the NBA. - ThreadSky

chadstanton.bsky.social • 2 days ago

Tall athletes have a biological advantage when it comes to basketball but no one wants to kick Wemby out the NBA.

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But trans athletes do poses biological advantages in certain sports. Most people want trans people to live happy and fulfilling lives, but also don’t support the sports argument. Why die on this hill? Do you guys want republicans to just win forever? Competitive sports is not a right

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andycenter2.bsky.social•2 days ago

We could start a totally separate but totally equal league of shorties basketball...that would be totally fair competitive sports

volcanicsand.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is what they do in the philippines

postmistress.bsky.social•1 day ago

This. Most successful athletes benefit from biological advantages, it’s just the way sports work.

crankypacifist.bsky.social•2 days ago

By their logic anyone who is taller than me (5'9") has an unfair biological advantage and should be excluded from basketball.

alice-j-grimm.bsky.social•2 days ago

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yellowcouch.bsky.social•1 day ago

THANK YOU

jroberts.bsky.social•2 days ago

Singal follower tag stays winning.

pinkyorbrain.bsky.social•2 days ago

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harrysgrampa.bsky.social•1 day ago

unless of course that basketball is played in a wheelchair

davidstaples-yeg.bsky.social•2 days ago

This logic is easily used against any minority they don't like. The Jews, for example, who are too good at.... fill in the blank.

wyattswickedgoods.com•2 days ago

No one screamed for Michael Phelps to be banned from swimming.

karen173.bsky.social•2 days ago

Wemby isn't a great example - his biological advantage of being unnaturally tall has also given him a massive blood clot.

rossfloate.bsky.social•2 days ago

Be hard to make an argument that sports are not encompassed in “liberty” and “pursuit of happiness”.

bowlerhatscience.org•2 days ago

"jesse singal follower" says it all

chadstanton.bsky.social•2 days ago

He’s wrong on the science, trans athletes don’t have an inherent advantage that’s just something sexist think because they assume any man is more athletic than any woman. But also philosophically this is an argument made nowhere else in competition.

sesinkhorn.bsky.social•2 days ago

I'm a 5'1" woman who routinely kicked guys' asses at swimming sprints in high school because, this may shock people, all human beings come in different bodies

crankypacifist.bsky.social•2 days ago

I used to bicycle with a woman who was 5'0" and routinely dropped me on hill climbs. Woman was a powerhouse.

chadstanton.bsky.social•2 days ago

No one thinks it’s unfair when Josh Allen uses his arm talent to throw a ball where Brock Purdy can’t squeeze it.

fireflows.bsky.social•2 days ago

Michael Phelps was all but designed in a lab to win swim competitions. But they're worried about 9 year olds playing soccer.

It's not a serious complaint, and it's telling how quickly "moderates" fold to plainly pretextual talking points.

k8c.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yup. As (currently racing) Iditarod musher Quince Mountain said when trying to reason with Wisconsin's full-trans panic state legislators, "kids just want to play with their friends."

alexmstein.bsky.social•2 days ago

Exactly! Quince pointed out more than once that this is an argument in search of examples. There just aren't many trans woman college athletes... and the entire way we approach sports in schools seems designed to turn kids away from sports and exercise (which is the last thing we need imo).

k8c.bsky.social•2 days ago

I find it grimly hilarious that people who care about girl's/women's sports approximately never seem to get all fired up about them in this one tiny instance. Also? The current admin will come for Title IX, I am sure. So.

k8c.bsky.social•2 days ago

Mountain is trans and observed about dog sled racing "the dogs don't care" about gender, of musher or team members.

alexmstein.bsky.social•2 days ago

One of my favorite things about mushing is that it's one of the very few sports where men and woman (and nonbinary folks) compete on an equal playing field.

dustinheron.bsky.social•2 days ago

As a Niner fan I gotta say it's a *little* unfair

chadstanton.bsky.social•2 days ago

If I point out to you that women’s divisions were invented once women started winning what used to be unisex competitions and you decide to ignore this fact for another silly hypothetical you will be blocked.

k8c.bsky.social•2 days ago

I did not know this and now I'm going to look up all about it.

k8c.bsky.social•2 days ago

(About the creation of women's sports in response to women winning non-segregated competitions I mean.)

tvdv.bsky.social•2 days ago

This series goes into that and related things: https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/tested/id1756587456

sknowsthatp.bsky.social•2 days ago

Out here spittin philosophy of sport knowledge like Oprah “and you get a counterexample!”

thedanib.bsky.social•2 days ago

Notice they never bring up trans women playing on the men's side.
Misogynistic BS in plain sight.

kwh561.bsky.social•2 days ago

This also doesn't explain why men aren't entering, let alone dominating synchronized swimming

catznjam.bsky.social•2 days ago

Doesn't stop at sports - that's just a handy distraction from what they are really doing and saying - this is what I meant by "can't see the forest for the trees in the way"
You don't get upset when it's "just trans athletes"- which is a miniscule amount, 9 total in the NCAA, for instance..

erbeckman.bsky.social•2 days ago

Right. Which is why anti-trans bigots also target people with credentials certifying them as "biological women."

pinkyorbrain.bsky.social•2 days ago

He's a pos Singal reply guy, so transphobia is all they do.

persianx6.bsky.social•2 days ago

Since when did trans female athletes gain an advantage and why do trans male athletes not have similar advantages?

The math doesn't math here, being born male doesn't guarantee much of ANY physical advantages to report on, beyond some obvious ones. Even then, there's hundreds of sports.

chadstanton.bsky.social•2 days ago

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