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Transgender athletes face growing hostility: four tell their stories in their own words
(www.usatoday.com)
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Trans women have been competing in female sports for years and years, before 2016 and 2018 rule changes with regards to T levels (that no trans woman will have trouble meeting since their actual T level requirement is super high anyway) How come it wasn't the end then?
Because there weren't many of them. No one thinks any random trans woman is going to destroy all biological women. That's just not the way it works. For example, 100% of female athletes would destroy my fat male ass in just about any sport.
But we've already seen specific sports dominated by specific trans women. Indoor cycling (Rachel McKinnon) and MMA (Fallon Fox) come to top of mind. We've seen amateur male powerlifters throw on a wig and call themselves a woman and smash olympic records in women's sports.
As trans women in general as well as trans women in sports becomes more and more accepted, that will continue to happen, until women's sports are ended altogether.
Simply put, if you deny that men are overwhelmingly better than women at sports, you're putting feelings over facts. And only the feelings of one small group and ignoring the feelings of a much larger group.
I was about to respond more in depth but you really gave the whole game away calling trans women "men".
No they're not sweetie, least of all biologically, but it won't stop me from being violent when it comes to that dw :3
Just FYI, I reported this comment that literally threatened violence against me, and it was left untouched while mine was removed for "trolling".
Its my right and this dudes right to call whoever the fuck we want whatever the fuck we want its called free speach. U know what isnt a right tho? Threatening someone with violence thats not free speach (by legal definition). You are a supreme hipocryt who thinks the reasonable responce to someone calling a women a man (btw dude didnt do this he was talking about actuall men) is violence.
Ohh and to ensure i hurt ur feewing your mother is fat old white man and your father is a schoolgirl. Get over it grow the fuck up and use your words like an adult.