The largest college sports governing body in the country made the change following President Trump’s executive order banning trans girls from girls’ school sports.

  • Flying Squid
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    -21 month ago

    If it isn’t always, then there isn’t an unfair advantage any more than being excessively tall is an unfair advantage in basketball.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 month ago

      That’s not how fairness works.

      If one man shows up to every woman’s weight lifting competition and wins every time and at the same time three other men show up and place last every time, the situation is still unfair to women because someone still had an unfair advantage.

      • Flying Squid
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        -31 month ago

        The fact that you are calling trans women men says all that I need to know.

          • Flying Squid
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            -11 month ago

            Okay, but we aren’t talking about men playing women’s sports, we are talking about women playing women’s sports.

            • @[email protected]
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              329 days ago

              And I was giving you an example where cis men could both win AND lose to cis women, and it would still be unfair.

              • Flying Squid
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                -229 days ago

                Cis men are not relevant to this discussion, so the only reason to bring men up is if you think trans women are men.

                • @[email protected]
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                  429 days ago

                  They are fucking relevant, because you said that trans women need to ALWAYS beat cis women for it to be unfair.

                  I’m providing an example where in an even more extreme situation where cis men were involved directly, some cis men could lose and the situation would still be unfair.

                  So your argument that they all had to be better is false. Trans women participating in women’s sports if even one of them is better because of their natural doping is an unfair situation.

                  • Flying Squid
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                    -329 days ago

                    You’re providing an example that does not involve trans women. All you are doing is repeatedly implying that there is no physical difference between trans women and cis men, which is simply false if they are taking hormones.

                    And also, that was not my argument. Not in any way.