• HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social
        41·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, it’s fucked. In total fairness, though, she’ll still be guilty of existing while trans. Passing isn’t really enough to douse the hate.

      • GeniusIsme@lemmy.world
        6·
        1 year ago

        She can’t compete with women. You were missing an important word there. The problem here is that her results are not even that competitive, and it leaves this unfairness feeling. We need solid criteria for allowing transgender women to participate on women support. I’m sure it is ok to allow some of them, but definitely not all of them. Compare it to certain phisique enhancing drugs. They are banned at sports. Now, imagine someone who used such drugs the whole life competing against people who did not. It makes sense to ban them as well. But we have half of population like that, so instead of banning we have divisions.

        • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
          19·
          1 year ago

          Trans women should be allowed to participate. The thing is that her results are reflective of most trans women, they perform on par with cisgender feminine athletes. This entire “trans women in sports” debate is just transphobia masquerading as fairness. It essentially boils down to “trans women can only participate if they lose”.

          • Liz@midwest.socialEnglish
            8·
            1 year ago

            I’d be fine with banning trans participants from professional-level compensation if we also banned anyone who ever took a PED ever. It’s the same argument. If trans people get lifetime bans, then so should PED users. Of course the second will never happen, so…

        • KISSmyOS@lemmy.world
          8·
          1 year ago

          We need solid criteria for allowing transgender women to participate on women sport.

          On the list of important issues we need solved, say in the next 10-20 years, this one is so far down the list it doesn’t even need to be discussed at all. Certainly not on national and international media.
          Let referees and sports organisations deal with it and start discussing, I don’t know, how to avert the climate apocalypse.

        • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          8·
          1 year ago

          Can we turn the magnifying glass to trans women who do seem to have an unfair advantage? Something resembling the use of performance enhancing drugs? I’ll wait until you find one.

        • Ultraviolet@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          The Olympics have this solved. Trans women have been allowed to compete for the last 20 years as long as they’ve been on HRT for at least 2 years and have hormone levels in the expected range. The results plainly show there’s no advantage, and possibly even a disadvantage. The only trans person to win a medal was an AFAB nonbinary soccer player who wasn’t taking hormones, and the only trans woman to compete in an event came in dead last. No other trans athletes made it past qualifiers.

  • crawancon@lemm.ee
    28·
    1 year ago

    HOLD UP. ARE you telling ME that FOX NEWS purposefully manipulates headlines and news bits to suit a specific socio-political agenda and has been for decades?

    SURPRISED CHIN POKU Man

    shoe!

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    26·
    1 year ago

    Isn’t it interesting that conservatives couldn’t give two shits about women’s sports unless a transgender woman is competing? They sure didn’t care about women’s sports when they were cheering the US Women’s Soccer Team’s World Cup defeat.

    Apparently transgender women competing against cis women in sports makes the sports they don’t like unfair.

    Also, I never hear anything from them about transgender men competing in sports. Curious.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    1 year ago

    Used to date an avid runner. She had a participation medallion on a ribbon for every completed marathon. I’m pretty sure everyone who completes a 26-mile run gets one.

    • bitsplease@lemmy.ml
      9·
      1 year ago

      Yup, they do the same for half marathons, 10ks and 5ks

      Sometimes the first 3 will get special medals, but but everyone else gets the same one

        • bitsplease@lemmy.ml
          6·
          1 year ago

          Just did a 5k for cancer research this weekend and we got a medal for it 🤷🏼‍♂️ hell, my wife and dog (yes, my dog got her own medal, it was adorable) got one for one walking it 😅

          Ultimately it’s just a piece of cheap metal, not like it’s impractical to give them out willy nilly

        • ArianaGrande@lemmy.world
          5·
          1 year ago

          Can confirm, although at one event I just got a pin. I was in Tromso, Norway and ran 10k at the Midnight Sun Marathon (yup, the marathon itself was at midnight, with a full fucking sun in the sky), and I got a ribbon medal, a smoothie, bottled water and blueberries after passing the finish line. I’m not even fast, I completed the 10k at 58 minutes, lol

  • Daft_ish@lemmy.world
    18·
    1 year ago

    Trans woman: “I’ve been through lots of hardship where people are openly hostile toward me, even threatening my life. I’ve gone through difficult transition therapies and am even considering surgery. Everyday is difficult because of the social stigma around being a trans person but I persist because this is who I am and accepting that has benefited my mental health.”

    Fox news: “No, you just want to be good at sports which is unfair.”

    Not to mention that when it comes to sports all genetics are a crap shoot. Should the woman who was born with natural muscle mass, height advantage, proper bone structure, and high testosterone levels be barred from competing?