Can’t they just make a rule that says if you haven’t had bottom surgery and an appropriate number of years of hormone therapy, you can’t compete?
They should just make a rule where they can’t compete at all. You’re biologically a man. Stick to mens sports.
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Nah. The rule should simply be if you were born a man you should not be able to compete with women.
On average men have massive physical advantages over women in terms of physical strength, speed, agility and so many other factors.
Just taking away testosterone for 3 years isn’t going to do anything to eliminate those advantages.
It’s like a man in his 50s who has the testosterone level of a teenage girl and should be on HRT - he’s still a man in his 50s and he’s almost certainly still significantly stronger than women in their 50s.
The reality is biological men should not be allowed to compete with anyone other than biological men. It does a disservice to women’s sports.
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What about a trans man who is forced to compete with cisgendered women under your proposal? Is that fair?
What the fuck is a cisgender
Go look it up. It’s a term for someone who isn’t trans.
Why should anyone look that up? There doesn’t need to be a word for someone who isn’t trans.
I think trans men and trans women should have their own divisions for sport.
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The world’s gone mad. Why do they need to make up another word for someone who isn’t trans? ffs
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They’re injecting testosterone in themselves they’d never pass a single VADA test in the women’s game so the question doesn’t need answering.
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No, it does because you’re disenfranchising people. How do you accommodate those athletes? You’re saying they can’t participate with people born male because they’re trans but can’t compete with people born female because of testosterone. How is that fair?
How is it fair for them to participate?
What’s fair is making sure women who are taking testosterone don’t compete with men. That’s what’s fair.
Unless you’re somehow suggesting we should let trans men who pump testosterone in themselves to compete with women who don’t produce a tonne of natural testosterone at all?
Crearice a division just for trans men and let them all go through life competing against likeminded people.
Let biological men compete with biological men
Let biological women compete with biological women.
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Because they’re people who shouldn’t be barred from enjoying recreational activities based on their gender identity.
@SRCJJ you’d do that for all sports? Make trans athletes compete in divisions of one? Possibly two? The transgender community is tiny. I just don’t understand the uproar over it. Maybe it’s because in distance running, unless you’re the best there’s always someone faster.
This woke shit is ruining humanity. Transgender women have physiological advantages over biological women.
When a Transgender man wins a World Championship against a biological male, there will be an argument for this all being fair. Confident that it won’t happen in my lifetime.
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Ah yeah the “woke shit” of people wanting to participate in sports. Terrible.
Of course they should be barred from competitive sports they shouldn’t be eligible to compete in and would have an unfair advantage in.
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I hate what the world has come to.
Bottom surgery should be a prerequisite to compete against biological women.
You think transpeople are something new? They have always existed. Just like gay people.
Never said that.
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