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[–]bife_de_lomo 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (9 children)

I'll give Dr Johanna some credit, increased rates of drowning would be the clearest case of trans people "literally dying" I've seen in a while! Just as soon as we see the statistical citation I guess...

But of course it's nonsense that someone wouldn't lern to swim just because they can't do it in a ranked competition.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Swimming seems to be a weird fixation amongst the “progressive” types, not just on gender identity grounds either.

[–]jet199[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Because they sexualise it.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Not just that though. There’s an industry growing up pointing to how UK swimming is totally racist, from throwing the N-word around to not allowing extra-big Afro swimming caps in swimming competitions.

It’s entirely confected for the sake of clout. Every child gets swimming lessons, regardless of race, as part of their primary schooling, it’s compulsory.

[–]jet199[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Black people sink. They don't like people talking about it because being good at sports is sort of their thing.

[–]Wanderingthehalls 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Outside of toddlers, the highest rates of drowning deaths are in males, in their teens and twenties, who can swim. They are the most likely to overestimate their abilities and swim into water they can't manage. In terms of drowning, they've already aged out of the toddler drowning danger, so it's best not to get them swimming. They are much safer staying out of the water.

[–]jet199[S] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

the highest rates of drowning deaths are in males, in their teens and twenties, who can swim. They are the most likely to overestimate their abilities

So troons are more at risk then

[–]BenitoGreen99 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

The leading cause of trans deaths is drowning, caused by the refusal of the transphobic swimming elite to let them learn how to swim.

trans folx can’t even take baths without risking their lives!!!

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Trillions of trans people drown in bathtubs with toasters and after falling from bridges due to unforseen circumstances such as gravity. How dare this person forbid trans people from learning how to swim!

[–]Wanderingthehalls 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I think you'll find that all the poor most discriminated minority folx are trying to do, is identify their way out of increased drowning risk. If we don't let them destroy competitive swimming for women, by accepting them as ladies, they will drown.