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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
The reason actually is based purely on misogyny. Look up the origins of why separate leagues were created and the history of womens’ sport.
It’s not that there is no difference, but that the differences between men and women generally (especially when you factor in different things like hormone therapy) are exaggerated compared to the differences that also exist between different men (for example).
Men don’t have a blanket advantage in sport. And I’m not just talking about non-physical sports like darts (though you should probably question why you only named completely non-physical sports). Read through this: [ur]https://www.sapiens.org/biology/female-male-athletes-differences/[/url]
Again, I just think it’s a load of crap to paint this as anything but targeted against trans women. Same with the bathroom stuff. Same with prison stuff. People don’t care about cis women or sports. In fact, people will rely on antiquated, misogynistic beliefs about women and men to create these generalities that just don’t hold up, or worse, think saying “it’s not just misogyny” makes it better. I mean wow, it’s better because it’s misogyny AND something else? Nice!
Trans people existed and played sports long before anyone cared what sport they played and with who. And the people crying about fairness don’t seem to care about creating basketball leagues for short people, right? Should the NBA ban men over a certain height? Shouldn’t it be fair?
If the goal is to unearth and remove any unfair physical advantages in sport, it seems extremely bizarre to focus on trans women, a microscopically small source of any even potential physical advantages that could exist.
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Question why I only picked non-physical sports? What's there to question? I picked those because women get creamed by men in physical ones
Yes, the focus on trans women in sports is microscopically small, we agree. That's why liberal-minded people are doing a disservice to the more important issues by pretending this isn't ridiculous to pretend there isn't an advantage for trans women. There just is.
And if we can't take drugs to improve our physicality, then I'm not sure de-tuning our bodies with hormones is any better. You can't de-tune an athletic man down to the maximum of a cis woman. Maybe performance-altering drugs in sports are just a don't go there?
To me this isn't about women in sports. I dgaf about any sports. I just like honesty and I think the arguments pretending trans women don't have an advantage in sports are ridiculous and a distraction. I don't like that the right wing is playing the left for fools by baiting them into defending an untenable position and the left is falling for it.
And yeah, we're tall. We'll never be horse jockeys. Not everyone can do everything. Sometimes if you were born a man you can't compete against women in weight lifting. I'm okay with that and I don't think it's anti-anything to hold that opinion.