Sometimes, there are valid arguments regarding transgender matters. For example, someone that has medically-induced higher levels of testosterone might have a resulting advantage in aggressive sports. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but it’s at least worth discussing it openly and honestly. What I find odd though is that the people that make transgender matters in sports their main issue say they do it for fairness, especially in support of women. However, these same people tend to have misogynistic views everywhere else in politics, so I’m supposed to accept that this one particular thing is where they finally started caring about equality?? It just seems so inauthentic.
My sister is one of these people. She’s suddenly all about equality in sports. What?! When has she ever cared about anything or anyone besides herself and her kids as an extension?? When has she cared about fairness?? It’s so uncharacteristic of her to think that way, that I have trouble believing anything she has to say on the matter.
What about jk Rowling? She works with and donates to lots of feminist causes.
Read her original essay on the subject and come to your own conclusions.
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You really don’t know any of the things jk has supported or worked with? But I’m guessing you have a very strong opinion about her, right?
Doesn’t it feel weird having strong opinions and not looking into them and finding out the background and stuff?
For example, someone that has medically-induced higher levels of testosterone might have a resulting advantage in aggressive sports. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but it’s at least worth discussing it openly and honestly
Why is this worth discussing? You want to talk about how Michael Phelps has unusually long arms for his frame, which gave him a huge advantage while swimming? You want to talk about how some Ultramarthon runners have slightly different lactic acid buildup genes so their muscles don’t burn as much? You want to talk about how all the players in the NBA and the WNBA are in the top 99.9 percentile for human height, giving them a huge advantage? Should all of these people be banned from sport because of their genetic advantages?
Many athletes have flat out, built in genetic advantages to other people. There is literally no way to make this “fair” without excluding people that are outside of what will be a 100% arbitrary baseline or forced gene editing, which we are barely able to do and would be wildly unethical.
It’s not worth discussion, because the discussion will be asinine.
Theres a very simple answer to that: The things you are mentioning (height, weight, arm-span, testosterone levels) are not normally distributed in the human population, but follow a binormal distribution. It makes sense to let people from one of the two parts of the distribution compete within their own bell curve. It makes far less sense to set a cutoff at the tail of the curve and disallow people from the tail from competing.
“because before if a man hit a woman, it used to land him in jail”
So she also virtue signals about being against “domestic abuse”. I bet the very moment they no longer need to hide it, Project 2025 will suddenly also involve the allowing of “abuse of wives by their husbands, as a treat, if the husband is justifiably angry on that day at anything”.
Project 2025 folks…Hold on that’s not fair, what did she do before he hit her…it was justified because the Lord said it’s okay to hit your property…
For the rest of the sane world, that is an abhorrent perspective.
…are you serious? She implied physical gun violence against gay churches, and you’re fucking worried about the bad word she used?
It’s so weird that Republican candidates are so obsessed with a harmless group of people who all they want is to love whom they want.
It’s fucking hilarious when someone named “Gómez” tries to simp for republican nazis.
It’s like, honey, you may not be the first one on the train, but they got a seat for you lol
This right here. Anyone who is a Republican but not a billionaire is just putting off their own demise. Once they have taken everything from minorities they will come for the rest.
It is however a classic trope. Being “one of the good ones,” affords certain privileges until is doesn’t. It is also absolutely a despicable card to play.
They think it’s worth the gamble to grab power, influence, and money until the whole thing comes crashing down.
Get your guns, beans, gasoline. Because even if Harris wins, this won’t fix the problems, only delay them another 4 years. Better prepare for what is to come eventually.
There’s a surprising amount of Latin American trump supporters. They’re either naturalized or children of naturalized citizens who get mad at undocumented immigrants for not doing it “the right way” so his rhetoric appeals to them in that regard at least.
I’m Mexican, my fuckin’ family is full of them. It is disgusting and a disgrace to my grandparents who immigrated here in the early 1900s. My grandpa was a union carpenter as well. It’s like spitting on their graves for their children to call themselves conservatives.
Khelif is an athlete who trained for years to perfect her skills and talent. Khelifs skill gave her the honor of representing her country at an international level at the Olympics.
This MAGA lady, whose name I won’t even bother looking up, doesn’t really bring much to the table in terms of skill, talent or vision. This maga lady isn’t even the best sexist out there and is just riding on the coattails of better, smarter or more accomplished bigots. Why do people give losers like this lady any attention at all?
And Khelif represents Algeria. Not exactly a champion of LGBTQ+ rights.
That doesn’t mean that they deserve to, incorrectly, be called trans.
Fully agreed. Just pointing out how particularly ridiculous the claim is.
Is there something wrong with being called trans?
there’s nothing wrong with being called gay, we still shouldn’t use it as an insult.
Oh, apparently this is the shithead who did a promo literally burning books. Fashy fash bigot shit.
“Where they burn books, they will, in the end, burn human beings too.” - Heinrich Heine
“Promise?” - Republicans
and the GOprojection continues…
i havent seen a lot of mainstream articles pointing out the obvious, ‘most conservatives incapable of defining fascism’
not that a lot of non-conservatives can either, but they arent the projectionists attempting to sway opinion.
This isn’t projection. They’re not saying “fascists”.
She, well hold on…so looking at that face she’s making, all I can think is when she has hateful sex she eonly gets off when spitting or being spit in the face…
Is she a tankie? If not she might be happy to find out there’s a whole community dedicated to calling anything that slightly reveals their intellectual shortcomings “fascist”.
