• deweydecibel
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    11 months ago

    This comment feels like it’s from 2017 or something. If you’ve spent any amount of time on social media in the last few years, you know damn well how this comment would be responded to.

    If trans athletes are causing a serious, quantifiable disruption in competitive sports, to the point you can direct me to multiple bodies of evidence that clearly show a trend of cis athletes being overshadowed, then, and only then will I agree there is a problem.

    But there isn’t.

    There was no reason to impose restrictions on trans athletes before there is any data to suggest they were a problem. They only reason is prejudice.

    And the same goes for trans people in gendered bathrooms or any of the other shit people come up with as hypothetical problems for pearl clutching. You can imagine all kinds of ways gender could have “environmental” impacts. “Could” is the key word. We’re not going to operate on “could”. I want “is”.

    Show me the trends. Show me the data. Show me where it’s a quantifiable problem first, then we’ll talk.

      • @Nikki
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        411 months ago

        strawman argument 101: what if EXTREME EXAMPLE happened? this should dictate how we treat all levels of competition because (???)

        you act as if being trans is a choice made at a whim, and can be easily made to take advantage of a situation. obviously if some major athlete came out there would be more than just “oh she competes in the womens league now”, but we dont have to talk about that because that is such a worthless strawman argument

        how will this affect lebrons legacy

          • @Nikki
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            311 months ago

            The edge case is called that for a reason, dictating every level of competition based on edge cases is how you push a narritive

            Let olympic athletes and organizers sort out how they want to handle the .01% of athletes that are trans, basically every other level of competition it doesnt fuckin matter. The only reason its brought up 99% of the time is to push a transphobic narritive and i am so fucking sick of it

              • @Nikki
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                411 months ago

                the issue is bringing bigoted government legislation into what should be exclusively top level competition. you and i both know that ted cruz (example) isnt gonna be playing touchy when it comes to taking away our rights

                if its just the top level people deciding what an advantage is, in just high level sport, then fair. but letting that seep down to collage, high school, and below is a path to genetal inspections on teens and children

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        111 months ago

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