She went on to highlight the strange idea of applying an athletics policy around fairness to a homecoming queen election that amounts to a popularity contest: “For this there is no difference between me and any other girl that would be put on blast. There’s no competitive advantage; as a matter of fact, people are less likely to vote for me.”
The sports stuff is not about fairness at all. It’s just there to normalize discrimination against us. Wish a trans journalist would point that out instead of just blindly legitimizing transphobic propaganda
The sports stuff is not about fairness at all.
Tall people have an unfair biological advantage at basketball. We need to ban anyone over 5’10" from playing
Can apply to any number of sports too. Look how fucking enormous the average linebacker is now.
handegg should simply be banned and the people responsible for covering up anything related to it should be flayed alive.
It applies to all sports. There are no sports where the competitors are equally skilled. And the 800 pound gorilla in the room is that the most unfair thing in competitive sports is that some people grow up with lots of wealth and privilege and other don’t and guess which of those two groups is more likely to go to the Olympics or become professional athletes?
Really depends on the sport. Many sports are seeing wealthier people getting into them like football. Famously it’s effected the Brazilian team for the worse. But then you have sports like Track and Field where a lot of people doing it are poorer. It was my sport and being good at it gave me opportunities I wouldn’t have had if i hadn’t been good at it.
seems like the thing to do with basketball is have divisions like weight classes are in some other sports. Shortball would probably do worse than the wnba did until recently unless you found 50 spud webbs somewhere.
Totally true but I still think trans people should still be able to play sports along with the gender they identify as.
nuh uh that’s unfair. we need FAIRNESS in sports. we’re gonna grow entire teams of players in clone vats in identical conditions and ban all non clone athletes from ever doing a sport
Maybe we can do something to handicap them to make it fair. Attach a series of increasingly heavy weights to them until their performance matches the cis athletes, make them play with bottles on their fingers like Luther in The Warriors, etc. There are lots of potential solutions but we have to make sure we don’t lose sight of the main goal of putting a stop to unfair tall bias.
Conservatives are nervous about trans women having an edge over cis women in (checks notes) feminine presentation.
What?
Go look up PornHub stats for trans/gender-noncomforming categories.
Those numbers will tell you that some of these conservatives must be indulging themselves when nobody’s looking…
ah the ever reliable. are you a cishet man, or are you a porn category?
Do you identify as a white male, or political?
I despise this saying with an undying passion. Why? Simply because it’s too fucking true and that anyone not a cishet man is simply a device to get them off. Fuck that. Fuck this. Fuck everything.
this is a really weird thing to say
Yeah, but it paints a picture, and shows how hypocritical these low-lifes are.
Unfortunately it is true.
Must protect the patriarchy to make me feel superior!The sheer irony in how we’re the “snowflakes” because we want these trashy douchebags to learn to behave, but all laws need to be all about giving these coddled trash a sense of feeling special.
And this is why laws discriminating against trans folks are written with loose interpretation. It allows for shit like this to crop up and allow for the pain treadmill for trans folks to be turned up at will. Disgusting.
You can use my ride in the homecoming parade
Very relevant
If the kids don’t want them to be homecoming queen they can just vote for somebody else, right?
No need to ban anybody.
The beer isn’t hazy enough.
give her a bazooka. give her a bazooka! give her a heap of bazookas! light that shit up like buffy the transphobe slayer
How about the kids just… Idk, break his legs?
