If trans women competing in sports is so dangerous please explain why they fucking suck so bad
people who don't actually know anything about sports or care about sports and just like being bigots will claim trans women in athletics will be "unfair" while completely ignoring that most trans women athletes don't actually win or do very well at all
The first trans woman CWHL player fucking sucked shit. Worst player on her team
It is truly pathetic how far out of the way people will go to be willfully ignorant just to confirm their dumb little idpol team's ideals
if you don't know shit about sports and don't know shit about governing bodies in sports and if you got picked last in gym class so many times you developed a complex about it please just shut up! thank you
@vriska still think it's bullshit, although I sympathise with the difficult position it puts trans competitors on
I wouldn't have a problem with gender neutral categories
@skells I just don't see how it's bullshit when no real sporting governing body would ever just let some guy say "oh yeah im trans btw" without a shitload of scrutiny and a need for HRT in most cases
I am told that trans women will dominate womens athletics but they never have in any respectable organized sporting event
@vriska @skells MMA, boxing, etc may not be “respectable” but you could say the same about most contact sports. That weightlifter was over the hill, and you rarely see someone close to 50 in world games that’s clean. There is a reason most athletes in the games are in their 20s to 30s. I think the oldest medalist record in Olympics history is still 36.
The main issue now is in high schools were girls are losing scholarships when they have to compete with guys not even on hormones in some cases. There are about a dozen lawsuits over this batting around the US courts. Every state has different laws, but we still have Title IX for women at a federal level. Listen to one of the lawyers:
“Forcing them to compete against boys isn’t fair, shatters their dreams, and destroys their athletic opportunities,” said attorney Christiana Holcomb, according to the AP. “Having separate boys’ and girls’ sports has always been based on biological differences, not what people believe about their gender, because those differences matter for fair competition.”
“And forcing girls to be spectators in their own sports is completely at odds with Title IX, a federal law designed to create equal opportunities for women in education and athletics,” Holcomb added. “Connecticut’s policy violates that law and reverses nearly 50 years of advances for women.”
@thendrix @vriska @mrsaturday Climbing is another interesting one, women consistently have better technique and poise than men, who have a tendency to muscle their way up (guilty as charged)
