It’s almost time to delete my account so I am sticking my neck out to potentially getting blasted.

I will preface by stating that gender identity is not an issue for me. Be who you want, use whatever bathroom you want. Just wash your hands/paws/tentacles.

My ignorant question is: for transgender athletes in competitive sports, should records be categorized differently or asterisked? Isn’t it kind of like using performance-enhancing drugs?

I don’t mind about actually competing, however if someone had 5-10 years of hormonal growth advantage during puberty, even if they no longer have that advantage, it seems like a big gray area. Yes, someone could naturally have that chemical makeup. Similarly, some exceptionally elite athletes have genetic variations that give them natural physical advantage.

When I was in school I was decent at swimming, in the top 5% of men. If I competed against women I would be like top 0.01% and making a career out of it. Though, if I started setting records I don’t know how I’d feel about it, given my advantage.

Honestly, writing these thoughts down is giving me some existential dread. What does it mean to be human, and why? Does anything even really matter?

I hope everyone has a nice day and is kind to each other.

  • FreedomAdvocateEnglish
    11·
    23 hours ago

    First, everybody should take note of the fact that you still haven’t provided a source showing that trans women have any sort of across-the-board competitive advantage over cis women in sport. I can only presume that’s because you don’t have any. Pathetic. Moving on.

    Trans women are males. Males have across-the-board competitive advantages over women. This is the entire reason why womens sports exists lol.

    The average male is taller, stronger, faster, has higher lung capacity, longer wingpan, better hand-eye coordination, and a million other things than the average woman. None of these things are affected at all by “transitioning” to be a trans woman. Not a single one.

    Someone can have a Y chromosome, but lacking the SRY gene will develop a female phenotype.

    Phenotype’s do not determine sex. Again - chromosomes do. If you have a Y chromosome, you are a male and always will be a male. You do not seem to understand the difference between biological sex and characteristics that are usually associated with a specific sex.

    • Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      31·
      23 hours ago

      Observable characteristics don’t determine sex, but this one chromosome that nobody even knew existed seventy years ago and that doesn’t actually do a whole lot does

      Bro really ate the L on that one 🤣🤣🤣

      Cope, seethe, mald ya drongo

      • FreedomAdvocateEnglish
        11·
        22 hours ago

        What a ridiculous thing to say. People have been able to look at another person forever and correctly say what sex they are and be right 99.9999999% of the time. The only times people were wrong were when they had a very specific DSD. Those people are the exception to the rule of being able to tell sex simply by looking.

        You’re basically saying that what someone is biologically is irrelevant, what they look like is what determines their sex. That is so incredibly sexist that it’s hard to even believe anyone could believe it, yet here you are.