testosterone absolutely has an effect if it’s present in your body during puberty, however. using “male” and “female” as shorthand for “had testosterone during puberty” and “not having testosterone during puberty” is pretty weird in light of gender being fake anyway, but in practical use, it’s not tangibly different from just calling it “type 1” and “type 2” bodies or whatever.
Yeah well that's why many people talk about the sex-gender distinction. Gender is a social thing, sex is biological. Of course sex too is a bit more nuanced but everything is.
sure, dividing up sports based on less arbitrary metrics is probably ideal - a basketball league might care more about your height and ability to run for a long time, while a wrestling league might care more about your weight and raw strength or whatever. but like. fuckin no one wants to do all those measurements for an after-work league down at the rec center yknow?
There is weight classes in some sports, but they gonna fix the issue completely for some sports.
I've asked some women athletes I know and they don't care about trans people picking their preferred categories but they do want the categories to be there because otherwise it's just not viable for most of them to compete. I think the outrage about trans women in women's sports is silly because, whatever, some of them win something every now and then, so what? It's not important.
I think the outrage about trans women in women’s sports is silly because, whatever, some of them win something every now and then, so what? It’s not important.
pretty much. the extent of the outrage is like, "omg one trans girl came 3rd in high school track and field once". yeah wow cool so you mean she didn't even win, it only happened one time, at only one out of thousands of high schools? who gives a shit then
Yeah like even if a trans woman, like, I dunno, breaks every record in a sport, who cares? It doesn't hurt women's sports. It would hurt if they literally couldn't compete any more, and that's not gonna happen.
Yeah well that's why many people talk about the sex-gender distinction. Gender is a social thing, sex is biological. Of course sex too is a bit more nuanced but everything is.
There is weight classes in some sports, but they gonna fix the issue completely for some sports.
I've asked some women athletes I know and they don't care about trans people picking their preferred categories but they do want the categories to be there because otherwise it's just not viable for most of them to compete. I think the outrage about trans women in women's sports is silly because, whatever, some of them win something every now and then, so what? It's not important.
pretty much. the extent of the outrage is like, "omg one trans girl came 3rd in high school track and field once". yeah wow cool so you mean she didn't even win, it only happened one time, at only one out of thousands of high schools? who gives a shit then
Yeah like even if a trans woman, like, I dunno, breaks every record in a sport, who cares? It doesn't hurt women's sports. It would hurt if they literally couldn't compete any more, and that's not gonna happen.