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"It is a complicated issue. It is truly a complicated issue, with a wide range of views, truly a wide range of views," Jean-Pierre said. "There is no 'yes or no' answer to this, it is complicated. There is a rule that the Department of Education [DOE] has put forward, and we're going to let that process move forward, and again, we want to make sure that while we establish guardrails with this rule, we also prevent discrimination, as well, against transgender kids. But again, a complicated issue with a wide range of views, and we respect that."

"Absolutely no reason for the Biden admin to do this," New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote. "It is indefensible and embarrassing. The admin can still walk this back, and they should. It's a disgrace."

"Honestly, this move by Biden to push a rule on trans kids in sports is not only a backwards betrayal, it [forces] us to have to spend our time dealing with god d*** sports instead of criminal bans on our healthcare," Alejandra Caraballo, a civil rights attorney and LGBTQ+ advocate, wrote. "He could have just done nothing. This is legitimizing transphobia."

The mOsT PrOgReSsIvE Administration in History™ funny-clown-hammer "A complicated issue with a wide range of views, and we respect that" funny-clown-hammer Fuck off out of here with that "centrist" nonsense. There's nothing complicated about it, and it's not an issue unless you want to turn it into one and want to appeal to people's emotions like Republicans are doing. It was only a matter of time before they'd start throwing trans people under the bus. I guess with the coming elections it's as good a time as ever.

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[-] betelgeuse@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Now, if someone could link a study to make me otherwise that’d be great.

That's not how burden of proof works. You're not correct until other people prove you wrong. If you're going to have a strong conviction on this, then it's your duty to be informed. You should be able to back up what you claim. Otherwise you're asking everyone else to be well-sourced except for yourself. You make the claim, you provide the studies.

You can come at me at whatever angle but it’s a fact that males at birth genetically have more strength than females.
For example, males at birth have stronger bones, tendons, ligaments, and mean height difference of 5.1 inches.

What does that mean? Who is making newborns lift weights to test their strength? Males at birth barely have bones because they're still forming and solidifying. What are you talking about? What is genetic strength?

Here is a source -

https://www.wayoflife.org/reports/men_vs_womens_physiological_differences.html

You know what I meant. The gender assigned at birth which presents genetic differences.

[-] Cummunism@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

https://www.wayoflife.org

holy fuck, if that's the kind of internet research you're doing then the school system failed you hard.

You say that but feel free to read the study I linked in here.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/2613916

It mentions exactly what that website says because it’s real. I’m sorry you aren’t able to google it yourself if you don’t trust the source

[-] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The study is from a bunch of bigots

so no, I won't read it tito-chad

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  1. The legislative findings for H.B. 500 contend that even after receiving gender-affirming hormone therapy, women and girls who are transgender have “an absolute advantage” over non-transgender girls. This assertion is based on speculation and inferences that have not been borne out by any evidence.
  2. First, these arguments overlook the population of transgender girls and women who, as a result of puberty blockers at the start of puberty and gender affirming hormone therapy afterward, never go through a typical male puberty at all. These girls never experience the effects of high levels of testosterone and accompanying physiological changes. They go through puberty with the same levels of hormones as other girls and develop typically female physiological characteristics, including muscle and bone structure. Idaho’s law would bar them from participation in female athletics with absolutely no medical or scientific basis even based on the standards set forth in the legislative findings. ...
  3. The legislative findings also state that “benefits that natural testosterone provides to male athletes is not diminished through the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.” This is not true. As noted above, puberty blocking treatment completely blocks the production of testosterone and someone who has undergone both puberty blocking treatment and then gender affirming hormone therapy to initiate puberty consistent with gender identity would have none of the impacts of testosterone on the body that would be typical for a non- transgender male. It is also not true that gender-affirming therapy – even for those who have not undergone puberty blocking treatment – does nothing to minimize the impact of testosterone on the body. In fact, consistent use of testosterone blockers and estrogen has a significant impact on the body.
  4. The legislative findings also note that “Men generally have ‘denser, stronger bones, tendons, and ligaments’ and ‘larger hearts, greater lung volume per body mass, a higher red blood cell count, and higher hemoglobin” and suggest that such characteristics lead to athletic advantage and cannot be altered by sustained gender-affirming hormone therapy. However, the noted higher red blood cell count and higher hemoglobin are both testosterone dependent. They are both reduced as part of sustained gender-affirming hormone therapy. And there is currently no evidence that the remaining noted physiological characteristics actually are advantages when not accompanied by high levels of testosterone and corresponding skeletal muscle.

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For example, the fact that transgender women who go through typically male puberty will tend to have larger bones than non-transgender women may actually be a disadvantage. Having larger bones without corresponding levels of testosterone and muscle mass would mean that a runner has a bigger body to propel with less power to propel it.
54. Similarly, in a sport where athletes compete in different weight classes (e.g. weight lifting), the fact that a transgender woman has bigger bones may be a disadvantage because her ratio of muscle-to-bone will be much lower than the ratio for other women in her weight class who have smaller bones

Edit to the edit to the edit: I see what happened, I got to the comment after it had been edited and OP put in the expert testimony. Removing snark but leaving in quotes. Good on you for changing your mind.

Yeah sorry I shouldn’t of used the word study

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

It also provides a very thorough and detailed explanation for why trans athletes should be able to participate in the division that matches their gender. I just edited in some quotes for you.

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