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God damned leftist groomers at it again. Won’t anyone think of the children’s genitals?!

The GOP is just a bad debater.

My immediate thought was to say something like "That question proves my point! We have no way of knowing who is or isn't trans without careful testing!"

I'm not convinced it's as complex as people pretend it is, largely because the number of clearly dominant trans athletes are so low. Maybe we haven't seen a problem already because there simply isn't a problem, even if you could theoretically tell a story that sounds somehow "unfair" depending on your storytelling skills.

I stay out of that fight because I don't know enough about the real statistics to comment on it. Which I feel like would drastically improve the situation if all these armchair "bIoLoGiCaL aDvAnTaGe" people would do the same.

Its not complicated at all.

Trans folks are just folks. Takes all kinds. Mind your own business.

People who can't mind their own business are assholes. And should be treated like the assholes they are.

Not to mention just how blatantly disrespectful it is to not treat people how they want to be treated. Republicans love to pull a bible out of their gaping holes when it suits them right? Luke 6:31-36.

And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them. And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same. And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again. But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

Oh. Fucking Reddit is so fucked. That place has fully embraced the scum. All meaningful conversation there is absolutely dead, conservatives have absolutely poisoned the well and nobody is open for business even if they want to be. Even good mods are 100% scorched earth, which can be nice, but sometimes the questions are genuine and the person they're having a convo with can easily destroy them. But because there's so much sockpuppeting and astroturfing and just shitty behavior, most people are now deaf and lazy, and even in the same comment threads, it becomes an echo chamber of two idiots trying to appeal to the audience with mic drops.

Even if it weren't totally cooked from admins to culture, reddit is unreliable, untrustworthy, and functionally useless.

Penis inspection day was real though. Up until ≈1974 in the USA you had to show your dick to go swimming in public pools.

Hahaha.... hol' up... what do you mean not real?

/s

Generally these tests are conducted by pedophiles and kept secret, so I can see why the GOP has no problem with them.

No, he’s tren de aragua. He’s part of the invasion and should be transported to CECOT post haste

Last time I was at the gynecologist’s- “that’s unusually big - are you sure you aren’t intersex”?

Nurse told me my dong was big, hehe.

trans people on hormone replacement therapy stop receiving the effects of whatever hormone their body produces naturally. so trans women lose muscle mass, bone density, whatever, and have no benefit from having previously lived as a man.

additionally, im of the opinion that less than 1 percent of child athletes go on to play professional sports, so who gives a shit who is playing who

"Do trans women generally have a physical advantage over women?"

No. Trans women were able to complete in the Olympics beginning in 2004. No trans woman has won an Olympic medal in the woman's category.

There are many studies that compare cis men to cis women and based on that claim trans women have an advantage. Among the studies that actually compare trans women to cis women it is generally found that trans women have no overall advantage.

"Are there any rules for this kind of thing? Do they need to be transitioning or taking suppression drugs?"

The rules and requirements vary by league. At higher levels of competition its generally required to have hormone levels at cis female levels for a prolonged period. Often 6 months or longer. To clarify, getting to those levels roughly takes 2+ years of hormone replacement therapy(hrt). Hrt for trans women generally consist of an anti-androgen, estradiol, and progesterone.

The answer is more complicated than other comments would lead you to believe. Before I get into all that, please know it doesn’t matter. Especially, when it comes to 14 year old kids who are playing JV sports at school.

First, the problem with studies is that there are very few trans athletes to study. Some studies have only one or two subjects.

Studies show that there is both an advantage and a disadvantage depending on what sport we are talking about and how long the athlete has been on hormones. Weightlifting and other strength based sports do tend to give an edge to trans women. However, cardio sports such as swimming and running put trans women at a disadvantage because they now have smaller muscle mass for their larger frames.

To me, it doesn’t matter. The camaraderie and other things that kids get out of sports is more important than who wins and who loses.

I don't know about performance, or advantage (and I don't think it matters since noone seems to care about the performance or fairness of non-proffesional sports unless it can be used as a bludgeon against trans people), but I happened to be arguing with my neighbor about this a few days and found that, according to the president of the NCAA there are "less than 10" transgender athletes in college sports out of about a half million. I feel like the whole discussion is a red herring. 1