quantumloverTransgender women athletes banned from women’s Olympic events by new IOC policy
I mean… Good?
We separate genders in most sports for a reason. If I were a woman who trained my whole life as a woman, and got to the Olympic level, and I suddenly had to face an opponent that went through puberty as a man, trained as a man, and then a few years ago decided they were a woman, and began taking hormone blockers, I would be fucking pissed. There are significant biological and hormonal differences between men and women, which is why testosterone levels are monitored and regulated among female athletes.
Overall, I think articles like this are just intentional trolling with rage bait about stuff that doesn’t directly concern or impacts a thousandth of a percent of the population.
There’s real news in the real world that’s impacting all of us that we should be aware of and angry about.
AmnesigenicWe separate genders in sports for stupid reasons, and fairness has never been one of them anyway. The degree of physical variation among humans regardless of dominant sex hormone necessarily means that splitting by gender will put some people in a group with other people that they don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of beating. A taller woman has a significant advantage over a short woman or a short man, women can and do compete with men and win. The logical thing to do would be to separate by height and weight.