• asteriskeverything@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    51
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    5 months ago

    The new rules do not discuss the issue of transgender student-athletes and which teams they can play on.

    Won’t someone think of the athletes?!

    I fucking hate this shit. Puh-lease. Like suddenly you care about women when it comes to women’s sports fuck off with that shit, I don’t give a fuck if someone who used to have balls won the women’s soccer division give me my rights back you lying piece of shit ass sucker

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      13
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      5 months ago

      It wasn’t all that long ago when conservatives hated women’s sports precisely because they conflated women athletes with lesbians.

    • havocpants@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      14
      arrow-down
      16
      ·
      5 months ago

      I don’t give a fuck if someone who used to have balls won the women’s soccer division give me my rights back you lying piece of shit ass sucker

      While I completely agree with your sentiment, I would imagine that some of the women in your scenario might find it extremely unfair to be competing with someone who has an innate physical advantage over them.

      That’s the problem with this culture war stuff, what should be reasoned debate becomes polarised shouting matches and people calling each other nazis.

      • 🦄🦄🦄@feddit.de
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        23
        arrow-down
        5
        ·
        edit-2
        5 months ago

        What innate physical advantage? Transwoman on T blockers often have lower T than cis women.

        • Telorand@reddthat.com
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          17
          arrow-down
          8
          ·
          5 months ago

          Exactly. Almost as if trans women are actually women…

          The whole, “They’ll dominate women’s sports!” is an ignorant statement at best and a blatant strawman at worst.

      • sinedpick@awful.systems
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        7
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        5 months ago

        ah yes, sports. Where everything is fair and equal, and certain individuals don’t have obscene genetic advantages over others.

      • asteriskeverything@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        5 months ago

        Except it is never women athletes complaining. It is these stupid politicians using that argument like it isn’t absolutely laughable. They only care about women when they can use them for their own talking points.

        I do take deep offense to referring to the loss of rights as culture war stuff. Fuck, maybe it is to them? If one side of the argument boils down to rights to your own body and the other side boils down to how it might make other people feel and how it can be unfair then there are much bigger issues with one of the sides.

        One costs lives and the other is a fucking made up possible consequence. And sports really is the only “logical reason” they can cling to that isn’t absolutely clearly bigoted af.