The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee quietly changed its eligibility rules on Monday to bar transgender women from competing in Olympic women’s sports, and now will comply with President Trump’s executive order on the issue, according to a post on the organization’s website.
banning trans people won’t stop republican addiction to fucking kids and projecting naive insecurities
search your feelings for you know it to be true
Sorry, what about the men’s? If you are going to side with bullshitting Nazis that just want to distract and look up girls skirts, then men are subject too and I expect them to have to drop trouser at a moments notice and have their junk inspected. This is what you want, isn’t it?
Wouldn’t it be hilarious to see a FtM athlete absolutely dominate the other men in their sport? It would be the ultimate “fuck you” to these assholes and their ignorant bigotry.
Dude they might be able to crush Gymnastics
Fuck this timeline. Trans lives matter.
Trans lives matter!
Why not ban trans men too? They could have an advantage in the gymnastics and speed skating sports too from being lighter and more flexible. Or we can just not ban either and let people compete based on what they want.
Because these rules only care about men becoming women. Because the people making the rules are sexist and stupid bigots.
I think a lot of people are just going to skip these Olympics. Sucks for the athletes though
I don’t exactly watch the Olympic Games… But the times I’ve seen it, I’ve never seen a trans person participating 🤷 would be a valid move if half the female contestants weren’t born female I guess… But there aren’t any trans in the Olympics. They should make trans Olympics out of spite 🤷
This might not really apply to you and your beliefs, but I think it’s a discussion worth having and considering.
There are (were, I guess) trans woman competing. Why would their presence change their right to compete? Additionally, the studies are few and far between due to very low sample size, but there isn’t good evidence proving that trans women have a statistically significant advantage in women’s sports after being on HRT long term (2+ years). Most trans women that previously competed in men’s sports perform similarly compared to women after HRT as they did to men before.
The conservative “evidence” for trans women having an advantage is simply pointing and going “see!!” any time any trans woman places better than any cis woman, even if they’re well within the statistical range of women. If trans people are allowed to compete, are they allowed to ever win? In professional sports, getting lucky in the genetic lottery plays a large role in determining success. Katie Ledecky is incredibly successful due to her practice and training, but wouldn’t be nearly as successful without a body conducive to swimming. What’s the difference between a cis woman being born with broad shoulders and longer arms and a trans women doing the same? No one is transitioning for a competitive advantage. It’s a ridiculous notion. There really isn’t a good argument against trans women in sports that doesn’t rely on invalidating their gender or vibes-based cherry-picked pseudoscience.
