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Transgender athletes face growing hostility: four tell their stories in their own words
(www.usatoday.com)
this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2024
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If there are people who want trans people out of sport because trans people are icky and they want us to die, and you want trans people out of sport because you don't understand hormones and want simple blanket rules that result in exclusion, you support their political goals. They will use you, because that is how they work.
you are not being discriminated against, you have spent longer arguing with me than you have reading about endocrinology or studies on trans performance at sports. That's lazy and shitty behaviour. Educate yourself ffs.
Nope. I don't want trans people out of sports. You made that up. I repeatedly said that I don't want to exclude trans people from sports or to take away any rights from anyone, that's just something you came up with because you need to simplify things or something. No big deal. If you are curious about my stance for real, you can go look through my comments. I guess it is just a bit tricky to understand that there are people who exist outside of the boxes you've been conditioned to think everyone has to exist in.
On a related note, this is what it looks like when someone is thoughtful and explaining trans issues without just assuming that everyone different from themself has to be evil or whatever(most likely you have some fundamental religion in your past that you haven't managed to completely shake yet).
https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/10165165
I hope it helps, although I suspect your issue has a bit more to do with self-reflection(this is often the case when someone is senslessly attacking people and making up other people's POVs), not something that you can fix simply by seeing examples of someone a bit more mature. At any rate, nice chat, good luck, stay warm.
God you're insufferable. I doubt you've even looked at my profile lmfao
You are right, I hadn't. I'm not in the habit of doing that, I just tend to reply to comments. I gotta admit that i dont see the humor in not looking at people's profiles, but I'm glad you got such a good laugh out of it.
Great that you are a vegan!
you suck!!!!