cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/110913
Kiss your daughters sporting ambitions goodbye
Kiss your daughters sporting ambitions goodbye
Why?
You gonna take her off the team to prop up your prejudices?OP’s from a extremist/transphobic instance. A bigot trying to frame this as a bad thing, but ironically it comes off as a celebration of a good decision from the Australian Sports Commission.
That instance 😬
I was initially apprehensive to click on this post because I was worried I would have to read transphobic bullshit like this. But I was so relieved to see your comment calling this out.
LOCKING: the article linked is itself ok, the transphobic commentary is not.
Keep EH commentary out of here. Will defederate then when I’m at a PC.
I’ve taken a look at EH… there are some genuine communities that would be collateral damage from a full defederation. I’ll leave the instance linked for now, but future posts such as this one with any sort of *phobic content will be deleted and risk full defederation.
For now, I don’t want to throw the baby out with the bath water.
I don’t love how the inclusion of transwomen is build on testosterone limits. But it’s yet to be seen if national sporting organisations will apply this limit across all participating women. If we’re going to say that 2.5 nanomoles/litre has a competitive advantage I think that should go for all competitors
I think this post is in violation of the instance rules. Plus it manages to be transphobic and sexist at the same time.
Including evidence to back the opinion presented by this post would cause not to violate the rules and allow for insightful discussion.
So here is some evidence your you published by NBC (you do not get any more woke or left then that) about the long term sustained advantage of trans athletes.
I don’t have any horses in this race, my problem is that your comment breaks rule 1.
Yes there is some evidence that there is some advantage that may inhibit meaningful competition and that is perhaps something that could have been discussed if you had not expressed your opinion in the way you did.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/61346517
The above article provides some expert opinion and is quite useful leading to the basic conclusion that this should be handled case-by-case, as is what seems to be what will happen.
