SANITYWorld Athletics bans transwoman athletes from women’s competitions.

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[–]clownworlddropout 19 insightful - 10 fun19 insightful - 9 fun20 insightful - 10 fun -  (16 children)

The story lasted 3 hours on Reddit before getting locked and removed with the top voted comment getting removed and the user who made the comment permanently banned from r/news.

https://www.reveddit.com/v/news/comments/11zr2ci/bbc_news_world_athletics_bans_transgender_female/

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

So much fucking cope in that thread. I see that they even tried to pull the “it’s all socialisation” nonsense to explain the difference in men’s and women’s track records, and followed it up by claiming that the women are catching up with the men and that highschool boys beating Elite-tier female Olympians’ records doesn’t happen and of course “Lia didn’t do nuffink”.

Best one though:

Right, transphobes want to force trans women to undergo male puberty and then act like they did it to cheat at sports

[–]clownworlddropout 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

It's unreal the nonsense they come up with.

I don't like all this focus on "male puberty" though, we're just kicking the can down the road with that. Sooner or later these puberty blocked males are going to become a problem in sport, since puberty isn't the only thing that confers a physical advantage to males.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I doubt you’re going to get elite athletes amongst those who were given puberty blockers what with the toll they take on the body, kinda hard to sprint when your bones are crumbling.

[–]clownworlddropout 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Fair point. Still feels like a bit of a cop out but I guess it shouldn't matter.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I agree it’s a cop out, but it’s better than the situation before. So things are moving in the right direction.

Hopefully the fact that this is front page news will bring it to the attention of more people who maybe weren’t paying attention, just like the Scottish trans rapist story did in the UK.

I’m also hoping to see some politicians doorstepped with questions about it.

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

Regardless, the boundary doesn't need to be complicated. Got a Y chromosome? Then no women's sports. It's simple. Just takes a cheek swab in tiny fraction of a percentage of cases where there is ambiguity.

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

Bones could be a problem, but (somewhat counter-intuitively) puberty blockers also increase height, so that could be an advantage.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Maybe they'll learn to ooze their way over the finish line?

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

If puberty-blocked males were competitive, we should be seeing them starting to see them by now.

[–]FourteenDigitz 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

So fucking gross how they’re framing allowing a perfectly healthy body to properly develop as “forcing” them to go through the “wrong” puberty

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

I guess some people really resent the universe for not bending to their thoughts.

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 10 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

There's a slew of comments that were removed so quickly that they couldn't be archived in time :D. Mods must have been sitting in that thread, refreshing like crazy and sniping comments left and right.

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

They probably have great glowing tools to mass delete in quick fashion. I would love to see their dashboards.

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

Amazing how many comments were removed before archiving. Removed within THIRTEEN SECONDS some of them

[–]Femaleisnthateful 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

How do you know the user got permabannned?

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

I checked his profile, he added it as an edit to the comment that got him banned. The edit doesn't show up by default, this might let you see it: https://www.reveddit.com/v/news/comments/11zr2ci/bbc_news_world_athletics_bans_transgender_female/jddq3au/?ps_after=1679601841&add_user=YOU_GOT_WARZONED..c.new.all.t1_jdavhzw..&#t1_jddq3au