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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Pandantic@midwest.social to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

Obviously this won’t work for all sports, but things like football, track, soccer, it would allow for de-gendered team, even allowing athletes with the skills but not the genetically-endowed physical attributes to have a place to play.

Note: I know very little about sports and being on a sports team, so please point out anything that doesn’t make sense.

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[-] iz_ok@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 5 months ago

How many trans people are actually competing?

Are they dominating in the sports they're competing?

Are their testosterone level similar to their competitors?

I am sincerely asking because I don't care enough to look it up myself.

[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

The issue is so few trans people are competing that there isn't enough data to make any claims.

[-] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

I don't care for competitive sports at all, so to me it's an overblown non issue. All it does is that people form all sorts of stupid opinions over sports that don't matter. Like if i were a swimmer and would at some point realize that i need to be a woman to be complete, i would ditch fucking swimming. Or i would ask if i could compete with the same people as i did all my life. Or if it were that fucking important to me i would ask to compete but not as a real competitor.

I remember that story from this swimmer who became a lady, and completed with other ladies and absolutely crushed them. Isn't that perfect for anti LGBTQ people to get outraged? And again, i was reading what the LGBTQ community thought about it, and one of the most upvoted comments were that dudes have heavier bones or something and if anything it would be a handicap to him/her. Which imo makes it even worse, because that just sounds like crap to me, and if you need to result to arguments like that it only makes you seem like you know it's wrong, you just make things up. Sports simply aren't important enough.

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