• Allonzee@lemmy.world
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    Sports are games.

    Games are supposed to be inclusive and fun.

    Society taking games deathly serious (and equivocating it with academic merit, aka serious pursuits) is the problem.

    People rioting and murdering if the game didn’t work out for their team is the problem. Putting billion dollar stakes on games is the problem.

    Trans people or any people wanting to play games with their friends should be what society fosters and nurtures as the entire fucking point of society’s existence. Something something… planting trees something something knowing they’ll never sit under…

    Nope? let’s bring on the climate change induced extinction then. If our values are hyper competitive, dog eat dog bullshit from labor to fucking games, we should go extinct.

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      Trans people or any people wanting to play games with their friends should be what society fosters and nurtures as the entire fucking point of society’s existence. Something something… planting trees something something knowing they’ll never sit under…

      Coed teams exist. They’re finding issue with mtf athletes playing against a league of individuals who didn’t go through puberty as a male. That’s clearly an advantage, and to say otherwise is to ignore science altogether.

      Maybe the solution is non-gendered weight classes for sports, or just more coed teams. Idk

      Edit: yall will convince yourselves of anything lol. Really wild the dumb shit some people will say

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        They’re finding issue with mtf athletes playing against a league of individuals who didn’t go through puberty as a male.

        Good news! Puberty blockers exist and have been studied and used for literal decades for other reasons.

        That’s clearly an advantage, and to say otherwise is to ignore science altogether.

        The science says 2-3 years of hormone therapy levels the playing field and there’s no more advantage.

        In fact, women who haven’t transitioned often have an advantage because their testosterone levels can be higher than women who have transitioned.

        And that’s the crux of the issue: human variation.

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          The science says 2-3 years of hormone therapy levels the playing field and there’s no more advantage.

          Would you be opposed to a requirement that trans women wanting to compete in women’s leagues undergo 3 years of hormone therapy before being allowed to play?

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            I think most trans people would agree that’s reasonable, but at that point, you also have to talk about the bans on transition for minors, which would affect a minors ability to have that time frame met, and then their ability to play.

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        They’re finding issue with mtf athletes playing against a league of individuals who didn’t go through puberty as a male. That’s clearly an advantage, and to say otherwise is to ignore science altogether.

        That would be an argument worth discussing if the Nazis weren’t also trying to ban puberty blockers and frothing at the mouth claiming the trans agenda is coming for their kids. But no, right now, that’s a garbage bad faith argument, because it already has an obvious answer. That’s how they poison the discussion.

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      Games are supposed to be fair. Unless you’re going to completely desegregate men and women’s sports, there’s a real biological argument to be made here. To pretend otherwise is delusional.

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      Have you ever watched women’s sport vs. men’s…? Like cmon lmao.

      Have you seen how big some NFL guys can get?? Imagine putting one of those guys in a women’s league? Put an NBA all-star in the women’s league? Imagine Mike Tyson in his prime fighting a woman. People would be hospitalized every minute

      This crazy shit is what turned everyone off of Democrats this time around. All for like the maybe 10 trans athletes this would even apply to

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        Sports are a pathetic institution when they’re more about competition than fun.

        Life is competitive enough.

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          That’s your opinion, which I completely respect. But a lot of people make a living from sports and allow themselves to pull their families out of poverty because of it. Are you going to take that away from them because there’s a double digit number of trans people that this even applies to?

          You sound like you don’t watch professional sports enough in a way to understand what I’m saying, which is fine but also why I’m trying to make this point