Name a sport other than wrestling that has weight categories? Basketball doesn't. Football, hockey & soccer don't. Look at the women's teams that are forced to play with much larger biological males to see how false this statement is. A girl was permanently injured by a guy in a volleyball game. - ThreadSky

morgaineswann.bsky.social • 37 days ago

Name a sport other than wrestling that has weight categories? Basketball doesn't. Football, hockey & soccer don't. Look at the women's teams that are forced to play with much larger biological males to see how false this statement is. A girl was permanently injured by a guy in a volleyball game.

Reposted from The Science Of Trans Sports!

We don't separate sport into sex categories because men are bigger and stronger than women.

That's what weight categories are for.

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lucyonfire.bsky.social•23 days ago

Notice the loaded language you use. No one is interested in talking with bad faith people who refuse to even respect Trans people. Disgusting

lucyonfire.bsky.social•37 days ago

Team sports definitely should include trans people

morgaineswann.bsky.social•23 days ago

On the team for their sex, yes.

lucyonfire.bsky.social•23 days ago

Transsexuals females are female. Get lost ignorant Transphobe

kirstimiller30.bsky.social•37 days ago

It is possible that a larger trans athlete could pose a safety risk to smaller cis athlete (& vice-versa)! To exclude a bigger trans athlete on safety grounds creates a precedent that would argue for the exclusion of equally big cis athlete.

vansen-qod.bsky.social•37 days ago

Also kinetic energy is linear to mass an square to speed. Thus a cis woman half the weight of a trans woman, but moving at twice the speed will still have twice the energy of the trans woman.

This isn't far fetched if the cis woman has a higher muscle to mass ratio and no cap on T levels.

kirstimiller30.bsky.social•37 days ago

Remember, from a safety perspective, it is the disparity in size and strength that is relevant, not the source of the disparity.

janerefreshed.bsky.social•37 days ago

Noting that neither of these athletes are transwomen &, further, how trans panic/gender policing impacts cis women! It's pure misogyny. Both these body types belong in a rugby team (Black Ferns), b'cos they have different jobs to ensure team success. All body types belong in sport!

kirstimiller30.bsky.social•37 days ago

Rugby Girls are proud they play the same rules as the men. They don't need protection from trans women.

janerefreshed.bsky.social•37 days ago

Absolutely this! (& sorry Kirsti I reread & you were making exactly the same point really).

kirstimiller30.bsky.social•37 days ago

All good Jane, you are one of the good ones ❤️

janerefreshed.bsky.social•37 days ago

Aww 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🙏 Transwomen are women, Transmen are men & Intersex & Nonbinary people align with other genders as they feel fits them best (which may be fluid). Body differences are natural in all genders, all abilities,all heights & weights. I feel alot of Abledism & eugenics feeds into transphobia...

kirstimiller30.bsky.social•37 days ago

A girl in Australia died after another girl tackled her in game of Aussie Rules Football. My first year playing womens soccer my arms was broken in 3 places and I had 7 ribs Broken. Trans women have lower bone mineral density than cis women do pre hormone treatment.

kirstimiller30.bsky.social•37 days ago

The sex, gender or chromosomal status of an athlete does not create any inherent danger or risk to safety. Rather, it is dis- parities in strength, speed & endurance and/or physique of each individual athlete that may, depending on the sport.

https://twitter.com/kirstimiller30/status/1513529144470290432?s=21&t=gkkNoFSDEewSniCpynhVOg

kirstimiller30.bsky.social•37 days ago

The reason we separate sports into sex categories is that men on ave are kg for kg stronger than women.

Strength is controlled by hormones & not puberty!

As can be seen in this study from 2021,which found trans women were around 19% weaker,kg for kg, than M & W

https://academic.oup.com/jes/article/5/Supplement_1/A792/6241278

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