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[–]Femaleisnthateful 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

About damn time. One might ask where are all these puberty suppressed trans athletes in elite competition? Shouldn't there be lots of them by now? We were told sport was so very critical to the emotional wellbeing of trans people.

Surely it couldn't be that their bodies are too destroyed by hormonal interventions to compete, could it?

Update: A thread on Reddit's homepage got to 234 comments (universally supportive) before being locked.

[–]FlippyKing 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Gotta lock out reality over on reddit

[–]Michael_frf 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Shouldn't there be lots of them by now?

Not really. "puberty suppressed trans" means a "transed kid" grown up. There's absolutely no path for the vast majority of MTFs to become such a creature, and "transing kids" only recently became recommended policy in the enemy's camp. We are still waiting for those to become old enough to possibly take an interest in competitive swimming.

That also leads to the biggest problem with this policy. It's a compromise that might allow some "validation" of MTFs without simply obsoleting genuine women in sport, depending on whether 12 is early enough. But it suddenly adds a big reason to trans kids. At present MTFs are upset at parents who (sanely) didn't believe them at 12 because they now can't escape male vocal cords and male body hair. This would add a further grievance, and redouble their efforts to "rescue the next generation of MTF" from it.