Viking_Hippie5d ago

LA Olympics will be first to impose IOC's ban on trans athletes from women's sports

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/66132704

LA Olympics will be first to impose IOC's ban on trans athletes from women's sports - Divisions by zero

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/66087691 [https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/66087691] > >The International Olympic Committee will prohibit transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports, starting at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. > > >The new policy, approved by the IOC’s executive committee Thursday, requires all athletes to undergo a genetic test to compete in women’s sporting events at the Olympics.

Show threadPagPag5d ago
Is this even controversial? There’s a reason men and women sports were separated to begin with.
Show threadnovember
Trans women aren’t men.
Mar 28 at 6:45pmWeb
Show threadIlovethebomb4d ago
They used to be, and that’s the issue at hand.
Show threadGarboDog4d ago

Hi trans woman here! HRT will make your muscle mass the same or even worse than cis women (meaning cis women are typically stronger than trans women.) Even still trans people participated in the Olympics for a very long time, since it was founded actually! It’s a relatively new rule to disallow trans people in the Olympics and you want to know why? Nazis! That’s right! If you support trans people not participating in the Olympics: you’re sympathizing with fucking Nazis!

TLDR: There’s no proof of trans people being stronger than cis people, boycott Olympics till they did their shit, Transphobic policies were made and enforced by Nazis.

Show threadIlovethebomb4d ago
Muscle mass is just one of the potential advantages that were considered in enacting this ban, and I think you know that.
Show thread-☆-4d ago

Since you seem to be arguing this point in genuine good faith, and that’s increasingly rare, I wonder what your opinion would be of a woman with a genetic mutation which causes her to produce elevated testosterone, wanting to participate in women’s sports.

Keep in mind, this genetic mutation, which does happen to cisgender women, has a measurable effect on these women’s athletic performance.

This is not a gotcha question, and I’m not trying to trick you. Just genuinely curious

Show threadIlovethebomb4d ago
The whole point of the Olympics is people who are the absolute pinnacle of human ability competing against each other. If they were genuinely born like that, then that’s just how things go, just like how some people are taller or stronger than others.
Show threadAmnesigenic4d ago
So you don’t actually give a shit about being fair or logical, just targeting trans women
Show threadhovercat4d ago

And you used to be a child, does that mean you still have to play in peewee football? Bodies change after being exposed to hormones, that’s literally what puberty is. Some changes are permanent, but the vast majority aren’t, and I can tell you that the trans dudes I know look nothing like women anymore after a couple years on HRT, and the same goes for the trans women I know.

Would I have been comfortable competing in any competitive women’s leagues in the first 3 months of HRT? Absolutely not, and I fully recognize that would have been bullshit and akin to a cis woman on PEDs. Literally every women’s team org that I’ve been on has not had a single issue with me joining the team or competing against them; it’s literally always men who never gave a fuck about women’s softball or roller derby until trans people became an easy punching bag.

I 100% understand the concern that people have, but I’d much rather us take a scientific approach to things rather than this stupid fear mongering of acting like a male powerlifter is throwing on a wig and destroying all the women’s categories. There are proper ways to handle this rather than blanket bans, and it’s just another way to distract people by scapegoating a minority and infantalizing women at the same time.