The development comes after a presentation to the International Olympic Committee by its medical chief, which highlighted the potential physical advantages of competing in women’s sport after being born male.
The development comes after a presentation to the International Olympic Committee by its medical chief, which highlighted the potential physical advantages of competing in women’s sport after being born male.
They should also ban tall people from playing basketball. They have a potential physical advantage over short people.
No, they should get rid of men/women split and divide people into tiers. Each athlete would be assigned to tier based on his performance and we would have gold, silver and bronze medals in each tier. We would then say “Phelps won a Tier A gold medal in the Olympics” or “Williams won Tier D gold medal”. This way it would be 100% fair and non-discriminatory.
… its not the same at all. And no I won’t explain all the reasons why.
Tall people were born tall. It would be unfair for a person born tall to identify as short and play short people basketball.
The tallest baby ever born was 28 inches tall. That’s 2’4”.
I’m not tall, but I’m taller than that.
I put it to you that babies are born short and grow over time.
That was a silly example.
How about male people were born male. A man can present as a woman but she is still male. Nothing will ever change that. (Except in the 1.7% of cases where the person is intersexed but that isn’t what we’re talking about.)
The real problem is that we need to find a solution that is fair to everyone (including female atheletes that want to compete against other female atheletes.) There is no easy answer or we wouldn’t be having this discussion but if you can’t adress difficult questions, like those that I asked in my now removed comment, then you don’t have the answer either and labelling anyone who doesn’t absolutely agree with the pure thought of the echo bunker is as bad faith as you can get.
That’s a pedantic argument.
if they got surgery to reduce their size would you be okay with it?
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So the effort trans women put in to compete doesn’t count for anything, people just decide to transition to win sporting events, and trans women are men with a different body. Wow, you really hit the trifecta of shit takes.
Wow, those are quite the arguments I put forward in your head. I notice that you didn’t adress any of my questions about fairnes.
If you want to have a conversation please answer my questions. If you just want to hiss and spit I’ll take a pass.
Sorry, it’s not worth having baby’s first “what is a trans person” conversation with you, which would be clearly needed before delving into the nitty gritty. Take that pass! Go somewhere else.
I’ve probably had trans friends since before you were born. Don’t lecture me.
You don’t want to have the discussion of fairness because it’s hard and chanting slogans, organizing boycots, and labelling anyone who doesn’t agree with the group thought a transphobe is easy.
If you want to have a converation, I’m here. If you just want to hiss and spit, I’ll pass.
Dont try and speak logically about this