bluestevon
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Current Affairs The Would Be Emperor Has No Clothes (aka POTUS 47)
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Read this bit back. Maybe even read it out loud. Are you insane? If you are, were you insane whilst going through puberty and that why you are stuck there?
bluestevon
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You know people take part in sport prior to puberty, you know it's possible to block puberty using blockers.
What's difficult to understand?
If you have gone through puberty with all the resultant biological and physiological changes to the body - then you should compete in your biological sex category.
If you have not yet for whatever reason gone through puberty - then those advantages are minimal at most, so compete as whatever you identify as.
Otherwise you have an undeniable advantage as a male transitioning or identifying as female competing against biological females. Or do you disagree that any advantage is present?
bluestevon
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Work on your passive aggressiveness btw, you don't have to insult people all the time if you disagree.
What happens when my rugby career is over and I want to play golf?
You haven't thought this through, not even 0.1%. What about motor sport or horse racing? Puberty right? Played volleyball in my teens and now I'm not allowed to play snooker...
Not even 0.1%!
bluestevon
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Ok, so you're using the examples of sports which allow both genders to compete against each other. Cool, problem being those sports are invariably dominated almost completely by the make participants. Females competing are naturally as a disadvantage.
The issue is in sports which are not mixed, separated so as to allow women to compete on a level playing field.
If you allow biological males to compete in those sports they will dominate completely, just look at performance data on college male athletics and swimming and compare those times to Olympic level female athletes for just one example.
If you want to destroy women's sport allowing trans athletes to compete is as good as certain to do so.
There’s a clear distinction between trump and the that lot.
Stop being an idiot and don’t go down the MAGA route.
Even you’re better than that.
Vivek Ramaswamy is a weasel of a man
Professional sports is actually the one grey area I do have in the various trans debates, because I don't feel there's been a violation of human rights or dignity saying to someone they can't pursue a specific career as a pro athlete, and ultimately the reason we do separate many sports into gendered categories is because of perceived physical advantages that biological men often have over women.
At a school level though it doesn't really matter, PE should be purely about exercise and developing teamwork (I get that PE teachers running competitive clubs and anyone invested in the school to sports career pipeline like football scouts would disagree with me). Only time I ever got injured during high school PE was in a mixed hockey match when a girl blindly ran into me and the top of her stick struck me right below the eye, so just make sure all school sports use kit that can be put to use as a weapon and problem solved.
At a school level though it doesn't really matter, PE should be purely about exercise and developing teamwork (I get that PE teachers running competitive clubs and anyone invested in the school to sports career pipeline like football scouts would disagree with me). Only time I ever got injured during high school PE was in a mixed hockey match when a girl blindly ran into me and the top of her stick struck me right below the eye, so just make sure all school sports use kit that can be put to use as a weapon and problem solved.
Seanjd
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Stems from bigotry and lack of understanding from the right who pedal these lies and come to the conclusion that most trans people must also be sex offenders.
This is going to end really, really bad for America
davek
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Noem: shot her young dog for being 'unruly'.
bluestevon
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Thought that was a joke when I first heard who he'd nominated.
Austin is awful, but Jesus H Christ......this...
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