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[–]absoluteblasphemy 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

TIMs are so entitled, they can’t evn conceive of the idea they might not get to play sports if they transition. Like I’m sorry but twans women’s feewlings are not more important than female people getting to be excellent at their sport. This is hurting female athletes, everyone knows it, very few care, fewer still can do anything about it.

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

They can play sports. They don't belong in women's competitions and they can't make women like playing with them. They can't force themselves into casual women's teams for validation. But nobody's holding them up at the sporting store saying "hey you can't buy that basketball, you're trans." TRAs frame it as women's sports or nothing. That isn't true.

[–]jjdub7Gay Male Guest Commentator 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's only "true" when you conveniently ignore their refusal of any and all reasonable accommodations.

Oh, you don't feel comfortable changing in the men's locker room? Well here's a private single-occupant...what do you mean, 'no'?

[–]absoluteblasphemy 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is true, of course. No problem with TIMS or trans women whatever being in male spaces, playing on male teams. I was thinking from the stand point of “TIMs aren’t going to be able to complete with men if they have no testosterone” as their excuse. But we know the males that try to colonise women’s sports were second rate athletes there to begin with. Why they don’t want to play the men’s league, really, they know they have no chance.

After all the steroids and medical drug related scandals that come out of sports, I don’t understand why professions aren’t looking harder at this.