I like how these nerds always claim to know athletes or are related to an athlete in a competition with trans women but are never athletes themselves. It takes a fucking lot of work, effort, and motivation to stay in competition shape and its even harder for trans people because of bullshit like this while they still have to try and change their life and struggle through all the alienation and hate and just want to fucking run or swim and then still have to practice and work just as hard as everyone else.
They always insist testosterone is so important and must be properly segregated from women's sports when they won't divide up all athletes by height, weight, age, bone density, blood oxygenation, lung capacity, limb size, muscle level, training amount, affluence, all hormone levels, nutritional levels, time spent at higher elevations, diet, time since learning the sport, and age puberty started.
Dividing by gender is just a quick and easy way to have more manageable groups in any area that have a chance of competing similarly but still have wild variation inside the group. Trans women are women and should always be allowed to compete in any competition that would allow her had she been born a cis woman.
I mean every single one of these at once, as hyperbole to show why there's no such thing as an absolutely equal footing for competition.
I know many sports are divided further, I've competed in some like wrestling, swimming, and hockey that were divided to different degrees, but there was never anything close to a real level playing field as gender and weight and age even combined weren't enough to outweigh massive advantages like family wealth, height and reach, professional training/facility qualities, or time in the sport.
I like how these nerds always claim to know athletes or are related to an athlete in a competition with trans women but are never athletes themselves. It takes a fucking lot of work, effort, and motivation to stay in competition shape and its even harder for trans people because of bullshit like this while they still have to try and change their life and struggle through all the alienation and hate and just want to fucking run or swim and then still have to practice and work just as hard as everyone else.
They always insist testosterone is so important and must be properly segregated from women's sports when they won't divide up all athletes by height, weight, age, bone density, blood oxygenation, lung capacity, limb size, muscle level, training amount, affluence, all hormone levels, nutritional levels, time spent at higher elevations, diet, time since learning the sport, and age puberty started.
Dividing by gender is just a quick and easy way to have more manageable groups in any area that have a chance of competing similarly but still have wild variation inside the group. Trans women are women and should always be allowed to compete in any competition that would allow her had she been born a cis woman.
Plenty of sports competitions are divided by weight and age.
I mean every single one of these at once, as hyperbole to show why there's no such thing as an absolutely equal footing for competition.
I know many sports are divided further, I've competed in some like wrestling, swimming, and hockey that were divided to different degrees, but there was never anything close to a real level playing field as gender and weight and age even combined weren't enough to outweigh massive advantages like family wealth, height and reach, professional training/facility qualities, or time in the sport.