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Jakyl25 posted...

I feel thats a moot point, since it happens so rarely that a trans athlete dominates amongst the thousands of them participating in sports that you cannot logically say that its due to their biology

In some hypothetical universe where trans women dominated biological females, there would probably be enough trans women to start a different league

So if this started happening you'd be for that division?

I dunno I think what you're suggesting is kinda weird. Like, "they may dominate but so what there aren't very many right now" it seems really short sighted. Let's think about the ramifications that has on trans acceptance in general. It's a really easy, and by your own admission, not entirely inaccurate, narrative to spin that "this woman player is only good because they're trans"

Do you think that's good publicity? I feel like it's always going to be an asterisk no matter how much societal acceptance there is, because it just straight up changes how effective someone is at the competition. Like I dunno I honestly feel like the people who think trans players should not compete in divisions that don't match their original biology have the more fundamentally sound arguments. Acceptance is fine in all things, until it interferes with the safety and competition in the activity. Then you have to just come to terms with the facts of the matter.

Granted, there are inherent abuses in the system already for a lot of sports. Like, if you're going to crack down on whether man to woman trans should be able to compete with biological females you also need to deal with cutting weight as a thing, just as one example. But like, there are a ton of people who can't compete in sports, you know? For a variety of reasons. Saying a trans woman can't compete doesn't put her in a much worse place than 95% of people. It's just how the world is sometimes.
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