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If you didn’t hear, the Olympics have now banned trans women from female events. Do you think this is fair?
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Anonymous 1w

i think its unnecessary and just used as an argument to further target trans people. the amount of trans women in sports is less than 1%. the amount of trans women that manage to make it to the olympics is even smaller. from research trans women have actually performed worse and struggle more than cisgender women and they dont actually benefit at all from being born male.

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Anonymous 1w

its so weird that all they think about are trans women and not trans men

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Anonymous 1w

There has been one (yes, 1) trans woman in the olympics since they first were allowed to participate in 2004. She placed last. In weightlifting. Which people seem to think should be one of the prime examples of an unfair sport. There is zero reason for them to even consider changing the rule due to fairness on their own, it just has not mattered yet, they’ve caved to particularly loud politicians.

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Anonymous 1w

Yes🙌🙌🙌

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Anonymous 1w

it really depends on the person, as a person who has taken hormone blockers since a pre-teen and taking e since 16 is a lot different than someone who has started e at 25.

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Anonymous 1w

they have threatened to genetically test all women, trans or cis. There are multiple cases of cis women having XY (aka intersex) this will disqualify them from playing any games. This is not fair

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

Anyone with at least one Y chromosome is a male whereas anyone with the absence of a Y chromosome is a female. Those with XY chromosomes who present as female likely have androgen insensitivity syndrome. They’re still male, but the body can’t respond to male hormones

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 6d

This shouldn’t be getting downvoted and #3’s reply is absolutely asinine. The only thing I want to add is that we should also be talking about how this is unfair to trans women. A lot of people are using the talking point of like, how it will hurt cis women and ignoring that trans women are being targeted.

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 6d

i absolutely agree, i did not mean to ignore the effects it will have on trans women

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 2d

i honestly don’t think these people even know trans men exist 😭

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