This is someting I wish I'd realized a lot sooner in life.

@ITOmarHernandez

If more of us thought like this, the transphobics wouldn't have any reason to go on about trans women playing sports.

Abolish the podium! Have more fun!

@EricLawton @ITOmarHernandez You know, that's a great point! I've been going over it in my head, trying to reconcile fairness of one sort (letting people be themselves) with fairness of another sort (potential physical advantages in sports) and I couldn't come to a satisfactory conclusion. But I never stopped to think about what actually *matters*. If there's an unfair advantage in sports, it's really not of any consequence except to people who take it too seriously. But if people aren't allowed to live as themselves, that's world-shattering for them. I should've been more wary of bigots attempting to frame the question for me in a way that suits them.

@hosford42 @EricLawton @ITOmarHernandez the interesting thing about this is, that they don't even really have an advantage: https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/04/trans-athletes-study/

And Usain Bolt also has some "biological/genetic advantage" as have many other winners in the Olympics (e.g. longer arms in swimmers), excluding all of them would be really silly. Especially since training is also a pretty huge part
So there isn't really a foundation to exclude trans women (or have restrictions that are this strict)

Landmark study suggests trans women may not have advantage in sports

A new review of studies around trans athletes has suggested that trans women may not have any fitness advantage in sports.

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