Genuinely don't know how I feel about the "trans women in sports". On one hand, it is a valid concern for a recently transitioned player to compete in some events, but on the other, I can totally see younger girls see more women at i.e. the skatepark and it encourages them to give it a try too

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 73 points 9 months ago (11 children)

There's generally rules of the "have to be on HRT for X months" kind which is perfectly sensible: Your body doesn't change the second you come out, or decide to swallow pills.

Then, all the data we have says that middling athletes stay middling after transitioning, bad ones stay bad and great ones stay great, that's enough for fairness given that we don't disqualify Michael Phelps for being half fish. All those genetic advantages he has would carry over if he were to transition and he'd dominate the female league not because he transitioned but because he's a genetic freak.

If you think that people transition just to have an advantage I don't know what to tell you either. I'll believe it when I see Matt Walsh do it, on camera, under doctor's supervision. If that clown with all his hatred can't do it with ideological fuel then noone can.

[–] TGames@beehaw.org 1 points 9 months ago

Apparently Matt Walsh and Co tried to do a documentary in which they'd start a women's basketball team full of "trans" women. Only they ran into a problem, no league would let them compete with out actually transitioning and none of the men (shockingly) were willing to start transitioning. This so fundamentally undermines the idea that anyone would transition for personal gain that they changed their minds on the topic and.... Nah of course not, instead they made a "comday" movie so they could pretend to do what they couldn't actually do so they could keep peddling their bullshit.

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