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Cisgender Boy Forced to Play on Girls' Sports Team Because of Birth Certificate Error (www.them.us)

submitted 5 days ago by andros_rex@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 0 points 4 days ago

Hey God why do you allow parents to name their children shit like Laker?

[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 5 days ago (5 children)

why tf does a school ask for a birth certificate
why tf would parents give that
why tf did the parents not see the error in the birth certificate?

My take: school asking for the certificate? Wrong. Now that they have it, they are reacting legally correct, because that birth certificate is a legal document. Sucks for the boy, but the fault is 100% the parents.

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[+] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de -11 points 5 days ago (3 children)

While I do agree (much to the dismay of many of you all here) that it is absolutely unfair to biological women to allow non biological women in competitive sports, due to the advantages that can't go away by chemical means such as larger lungs, longer arms, and bigger hands with more stable hip bones; if I were this kid, who is apparently quite strong and athletic, I would try and have loads of fun screwing with the system they're forcing upon him. He could really screw with them on policies. I'd imagine he could get loads of classmates to go along with helping him out, too.

[–] Bunbury@feddit.nl 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

The idea that women need “protection” from competing with men was always more about control than it ever was about fairness. The argument of women somehow being physically worse at sports is just not accurate in many cases. Actually there are a lot of sports in which women have an inherent advantage over men.

Yes, men on average have higher bone density, greater muscle mass and larger lung capacity. However women tend to on average have a more efficient fat metabolism, better cold tolerance, a lower center of gravity, higher flexibility and more stable fine motor control. Also some people tend to beat the odds and win despite supposedly being at a disadvantage.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de -3 points 4 days ago

Yeah. That's absolutely just not true at all for almost every sport. Especially team sports. There are some competitive sports where men don't just have an advantage, or that women have the advantage, but those are a vast minority. Some shooting events and some distance events is about it.

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[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's fine to disagree with us here, but you also "disagree" with everyone who knows anything about the subject, and that is why your head is stuck so far up your own asshole.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de -4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Seems like I know plenty about the subject. To the point where all you can do is try and sling insults instead of forming any sort of argument.

[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This information is readily available. You decided that instead of listening to the IOC or physiologists you'd stick your head WAY up inside your own rectum. It's not my job to pull it out.

But it is fun to point and laugh. 😉

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The physiologists agree with me, buddy.

[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 0 points 4 days ago

😂

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