They’re now claiming that trans women “stole” over 2000 gold medals from cis women. But if you look closer, that number should be much… higher?
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CWALAC doesn’t say those 2,293 gold medals were won in any specific time period, just that they were won at some point. But entries on the dataset go back as far as 1927 (doing a lovely job of emphasizing something we always say: trans people have always been here). If anything, with such a huge dataset, if trans people were dominating sports, you’d expect significantly more wins from trans people.
Even the notion of what they are considering a sport where trans women would have an advantage seems undefined. While there are major sports like swimming, soccer, and hockey, other sports included where trans people are supposedly dominating are bowling, disc golf, Irish dance, and competitive oyster shucking. This is all separate from their non-athletic section, which includes prom queens, best actress nominations, and Jeopardy! performances.
Our obsession with sports has always kind of flummoxed me. Don’t get me wrong, I love sports. Baseball, hockey, and basketball are in my Midwestern blood. But freaking out over the competitive sanctity of high school basketball or college swimming is just… like, dude. Maybe these things mean too much if that much is on the line. It is only a game, y u have to be mad?
Of course it’s not about the sports, it was never about the sports, its about finding a scapegoat that doesn’t have the political power to fight back. Innocent people who just want to exist. But ah, no, we need penis detectors and hormone checks and we need to invade the privacy of children to… save the children from… other… children
I know I’m not exactly steelmanning the transphobes here but do you think it ever occurs to any of them how fucking stupid they sound
Every trans person i have ever met just wants to be invisible, normal & boring…just like everyone else. If we just let them be themselves, they would fade into the woodwork just like all of us, and nobody would be the worse for it.
They literally don’t affect anything, unless we make it into something.
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This is how you know the people who actually believe this shit have no struggle or anything going on in their life because they obsess over lies that don’t even directly affect their own lives
No you see a trans person winning the 1927 Oyster Shucking contest is proof of the trans agenda ruining this country and destroying America.
Anyone against trans people is the most easily manipulated, fucking religious psychosis having, fucking cuck to billionaire pedophiles alive.
Oh I’m stealing this
Jeopardy? Don’t the men and women compete together in Jeopardy? Is there, like, a Women’s Jeopardy?
That’s also what jumped out at me.
It’s like chess, I think - a women’s category only makes sense because of the long standing societal and historical barriers to women’s participation.
As we move on to a world where players aren’t discriminated against based on gender, the split no longer makes sense.
Ah, yeah, I think there was a segment about this with John Oliver. Basically the online tracker claiming trans athlete stole medals took unvetted submissions leading to false claims and duplicates.
The source looks pretty biased!
You seem to know all about bias, having created a Lemmy account to spread FUD about trans issues. What a horrible misuse of life.
Oh you’re back with more transphobia.
Oh sweet, I will introduce them to my very biased block list.
I went used to say in the olden days, “Plonked”.
It’s funny how f2c is biased but not this site. Hmmmmm……
Nothing about a Christian hate group is funny.
Nothing about invalidating people’s lived experiences is funny.
Be a better human.
What source is biased? lgbtqnation?
