• TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip
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    10 months ago

    Ah, yes, let’s make laws specifically banning 2-5 children from ever having fun.

    Like… what the fuck is wrong with you that you think a law targeting under 10 people in the entirety of the US is justified and not literally just bullying those kids on a national level to hope they fucking commit suicide? A law to tell 5 kids, specifically, that fuck them and they’re not allowed to have fun is god damn crazy.

    https://www.newsweek.com/how-many-transgender-athletes-play-womens-sports-1796006

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      10 months ago

      Having fun is one thing and winning competitions against people you have a biological advantage against is another. It only takes one person to win a championship.

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        10 months ago

        So you’re saying that people like Michael Phelps should be excluded from competing in sports due to the famous athelete’s “biological advantages”?

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          10 months ago

          The women’s section is separate from the open section specifically so that women can get their place to compete without being dominated by men’s biological advantages over them. Micheal Phelps is competing in the open section, which is… Well… Open. Also please leave strawmanning to the conservatives.

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            10 months ago

            You missed my point.

            If the argument is that unfair competition due to “biological advantages” should be reduced then I agree. Sports should be segregated by performance classes and open to all genders.

            But if the point of segregating sports is to make space for women in sports, then excluding trans women is nothing more than discrimination on par with excluding black or disabled women. Trans women deserve not to have to play with the boys too.

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              10 months ago

              If the argument is that unfair competition due to “biological advantages” should be reduced then I agree. Sports should be segregated by performance classes and open to all genders.

              That’s probably the ideal solution, but the problem is that nobody’s gonna watch anything except the top leagues. I mean watching the kinda good but not really amazing people’s football league just isn’t an appealing prospect, unless I misunderstood what you meant by performance classes. The whole point of this debate (other than conservatives shitting on trans women anyway) is that you need a framework where:

              1-trans people can compete, 2-cis women aren’t unfairly disadvantaged and 3-that people would actually watch.

              I’m frankly not sure such a thing exists.