Trans women athletes rule

    • BabyVi@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Michael Phelps has an inate advantage but no one seems to give a shit. In a truly just world trans women would be allowed to seek excellence and be valued for their capabilities instead of shunned. For the record I don’t really think trans women have an advantage over similarly matched cis women. I just think the notion of fairness in sports is inherently ridiculous.

      • RagingRobot@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        It actually kind of pisses me off that the government is so involved in sports. It’s ridiculously stupid. Like the time when Congress was investigating the football that was deflated in a game. Like why does it even matter? It’s a game. The outcome is irrelevant to anything else important going on.

        It’s like if the cops came to your house for playing monopoly wrong or something

      • LwL@lemmy.world
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        4 days ago

        It does seem sensible to require some proof of some set time of hrt for trans athletes in top level competition, and that’s about it. Once you’ve been on E for a while all studies I’m aware of show there really isn’t any inherent advantage to being AMAB.

        And for any lower competition levels it doesn’t really matter anyway since you can likely find cis women that are better than the men anyway, so who cares if some trans girl has some physical advantage while she waits for hrt to start or whatever.