I guess it perhaps might be helpful if we had something that could prevent those trans people who are born male and are considering career in sports from going through male puberty, so they would not have any advantage over cis women due to said male development. I'm sure many of them would welcome if there was some accessible medication that could do that and carried no stigma, so that their doctors could prescribe it to them and their parents would let them take it. Then, any advantage they might have in some sports might be diminished and they themselves would not have to doubt if their potential victory is fair.
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Yes. If your argument is based on the notion of trans women athletes having a physical advantage over cisgender female athletes, then you would have to also argue that trans male athletes have a DISADVANTAGE against cisgender male athletes. So to be against both exposes you as transphobic.
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I'd also like to point out that trans women have unique disadvantages compared to cis women. For example, trans women *can* be larger and heavier. However, what this means is that they are moving more body weight and expending more energy with generally less aerobic ability as a result of things like testosterone restriction. Trans women often have lower testosterone than the cis women they're competing against. Like all bodies, they have unique and individuating circumstances and pretending 'male puberty' is the be all end all of it is doing everyone a disservice.
Really, it comes down to gullible rubes and reactionaries needing something to scream and cry 'woke' about, like the complete losers they are.
Trans women win so rarely that the comical freak out over the win of a trans women at darts is hilarious and sad.
Last edited by Tendrin; 03-29-2024 at 09:05 PM.
There’s also the fact that for some anti-trans folks around here, ‘trans’ is an ‘unfair genetic advantage’, but LITERAL genetic mutations that give certain athletes an edge over other athletes WITHOUT those mutations? Totally fair.
But if that woman was assigned male at birth? Certain people like to cry things like, “Unfair!!! Trans people are freaks! Won’t SOMEONE think of the [imaginary female athletes being physically assaulted by trans women]?!?!?! Treating trans women like women is misogyny!! Treating trans kids like the gender they identify as is abuse!! What if that ‘girl’ has never had a penile orgasm before? How do they KNOW they’re trans if they haven’t experienced an orgasm with their GOD-GIVEN genitals?! No, I’m not a weirdo! The orgasmic capability of trans children is just very important to me! Way more important than acknowledging that such things are none of my goddamned business, and I’m completely, demonstrably, repeatedly proven wrong every time I open my mouth on the subject!”
And then play victim when called out on it.
Last edited by zinderel; 03-29-2024 at 11:17 PM.
Yeah. It’s a DEEPLY gross, perverse line of far right ‘logic’ and SUCH a phony, tone-deaf bit of virtue signaling.
The only people whose orgasmic capacity ANYONE should be concerned with are their own sexual partners.
Otherwise, that **** is between the people these fake-ass ‘christians’ and ‘concerned citizens’ are pretending to care about (for political points and legal cover), and their doctor (who the fundies want imprisoned for respecting their patient’s wishes and following best medical practices, QUITE against the fundamentalist’s wishes), and is none of their goddamn business.
Especially not when they constantly deny the inherent humanity of the children whose orgasmic capabilities they are suddenly weirdly obsessed with.
It’s literally the exact same playbook they used against queer folks during the HIV/AIDS crisis, when it was cool to hate queer folx (and pretend it was about ‘civic concern’ and ‘medical science’ and ‘deeply held religious values’) in the same way it’s socially acceptable to hate trans folx now.
“How do they KNOW that they’re [gay/bi/trans/ace/aro] if they haven’t had ‘normal’ heterosexual intercourse yet?!”
But, y’know…us libruls, always exaggerating about those innocent ‘conservatives’…
Last edited by zinderel; 03-29-2024 at 11:29 PM.
But factually trans women normally compete at a higher level in women’s events than they did in men’s events before they transitioned.
And many CIS elite women athletes would prefer not to compete against trans women.
Would you be happy to allow the people most affected by the issue (elite women athletes) to have a free vote on the issue of deciding the entry rules for their competition?