It’s almost time to delete my account so I am sticking my neck out to potentially getting blasted.
I will preface by stating that gender identity is not an issue for me. Be who you want, use whatever bathroom you want. Just wash your hands/paws/tentacles.
My ignorant question is: for transgender athletes in competitive sports, should records be categorized differently or asterisked? Isn’t it kind of like using performance-enhancing drugs?
I don’t mind about actually competing, however if someone had 5-10 years of hormonal growth advantage during puberty, even if they no longer have that advantage, it seems like a big gray area. Yes, someone could naturally have that chemical makeup. Similarly, some exceptionally elite athletes have genetic variations that give them natural physical advantage.
When I was in school I was decent at swimming, in the top 5% of men. If I competed against women I would be like top 0.01% and making a career out of it. Though, if I started setting records I don’t know how I’d feel about it, given my advantage.
Honestly, writing these thoughts down is giving me some existential dread. What does it mean to be human, and why? Does anything even really matter?
I hope everyone has a nice day and is kind to each other.
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That has nothing to do with the reality of men being biologically stronger than women.
imagine short girl loves volleyball hears news.
other players yell “hooray now physical male cant play vs girl”
nothing changes for short girl
she still lose
did gender as the basis for grouping sports rlly make things fair in the first place?
is it more fair for short girl to play against short boy or tall girl?
base the balancing of a physical competition on anything other than the attributes that determine who wins, and it is unfair. That’s why the crying about trans athletes being unfair is silly. i agree it’s unfair. but it isn’t like it’s a sudden unfairness on a previously fair system. ‘whether the player has a vag or peen’ didn’t actually allow shortgirl to compete. Balancing on the physical characteristics required to win, not sex, would have. But vagpeen distinction not so much.
Hence my playing videogames with competition not sexdivided while laughing at and not caring about sports. It wasn’t fair in the first place.
