Who has the energy to care? assuming you’re a seppo, your country has a shit tonne more to worry about than how good someone’s chromosomes make them at putting a hockey stick in a basket from the other end of the pool
Yet here you are, caring.
Not american, and that is a pathetic way to try and kill a discussion. Just because something more important might be happening everything else should be ignored?
As long as it doesn't break any laws, sure, they can do what they want. Unfortunately for trans women who want to compete in the womens sports, there are protections for sex-specific places and things.
First, everybody should take note of the fact that you still haven’t provided a source showing that trans women have any sort of across-the-board competitive advantage over cis women in sport. I can only presume that’s because you don’t have any. Pathetic. Moving on.
Trans women are males. Males have across-the-board competitive advantages over women. This is the entire reason why womens sports exists lol.
The average male is taller, stronger, faster, has higher lung capacity, longer wingpan, better hand-eye coordination, and a million other things than the average woman. None of these things are affected at all by "transitioning" to be a trans woman. Not a single one.
Someone can have a Y chromosome, but lacking the SRY gene will develop a female phenotype.
Phenotype's do not determine sex. Again - chromosomes do. If you have a Y chromosome, you are a male and always will be a male. You do not seem to understand the difference between biological sex and characteristics that are usually associated with a specific sex.
You missed the point about the slower times. The point was that the times of a ~500 ranked male are faster than the times of the number 1 ranked female. You don’t see how this is a problem with trans men competing against women?
Thomas’ times only decreased by roughly 2-3% after transition. Male swimmers are on average 10-15% faster than women’s. This shows that male physical advantage doesn’t just disappear, as should be obvious simply by looking at the physical differences between males and females.
You act like you’re not participating in this “culture war” as much as I supposedly am lol.
You said it’s barely affecting anyone. I posted evidence that it affects hundreds/thousands of people. You dismiss it based on you thinking you remember something lol Even if it did count every medal twice, which you’ve provided no evidence to show it even counted a single one twice, it’s still thousands of women affected.
Incorrect.
Before transitioning, Thomas was nationally ranked #462 in the NCAA men’s official swimming competitions. After transitioning, Thomas jumped to #1 in the NCAA women’s category.
Lia Thomas jumped up from around 500 in mens to 1 in womens while having slower times than when ranked ~500 in the mens. That says all that needs to be said.
Yeah righto, you haven’t got a clue what you’re on about but because you’re an entitled fuck with an opinion, you’re just putting it out there as confidently as you can because you’re hoping people will uncritically agree with it since it reaffirms their priors.
I absolutely know what I'm talking about, because it's basic human biology and physiology.
Biological sex is malleable.
100% incorrect. No amount of hormones can ever change your sex. You're equating having boobs to being female, or getting a deep voice to being male, which is just absurd. Your sex is written in every single cell of your body, and it can never change. If you honestly believe what you just wrote, you really should go and get some help.
Secondary sex characteristics != sex. No one in the history of the world has ever changed sex. Never. Not a single person. It is biologically impossible in the human race.
I’m really curious as to what, specifically, you think determines sex.
Your chromosomes. Got a Y? You're a male. Just X's? Female. What do you think determines sex?
Weight and height classes exist
Not in every sport. Are there weight and height classes in track and field? Football? Soccer?
Also would you be ok with a man and a woman facing off in Boxing or MMA just because they're the same weight?
The near absence of trans people in sport, tends to indicate this really isn’t much a of a thing to begin with
It's becoming more and more prevalent, don't pretend like it isn't. If it isn't stopped there will be no women in the womens divisions of sports, only trans women.
WASHINGTON (TNND) — The U.N. says transgender athletes competing in women's athletic events have won nearly 900 medals over their competitors, according to the results of a study obtained by The National News Desk (TNND).
The 20-page document examined “violence against women and girls in sports” and claims more than 600 biologically female athletes have lost at least 890 medals to transgender competitors. These defeats occurred in over 400 competitions in 29 sports, though authors did not specify specific events, levels of competition or time periods.
That's precisely why we have sports separated by sex now though - because otherwise it's all men up the top and all the women down the bottom.
Would you be ok with, for example, mixed sex boxing or mma?
The decisions should be made by people who know the sport and decide what fair competition might look like, not by asshole politicians looking to push an agenda.
So they should be able to do whites-only competitions? Most of the NBA and NFL are black, so that's not "fair" to white people is it? So they should be able to do whites-only competitions by your logic.
You unironically posted John Oliver and expected people to take it seriously lol