transgender

2110 readers

1 users here now

Welcome to lemmy.ml/c/transgender! This is a community for sharing transgender or gender diverse related news articles, posts, and support for the community.

Rules:

Bigotry, transphobia, racism, nationalism, and chauvinism are not allowed.
Selfies are not permitted for the safety of users.
No surveys or studies.
Debating transgender rights is not allowed. Transgender rights are human rights. Debating transgender healthcare is not allowed. Transgender healthcare is a necessity.
No civility policing transgender people. Transgender people have a right to be angry about transphobia and be rude to transphobes.
If you are cis, do not downvote posts. We don't like you manipulating our community.
Posts about dysphoria/trauma/transphobia should be NSFW tagged for community health purposes.
For both cis and trans people: Please alter your username (if possible) to include pronouns (or lack thereof, or questioning) so no one misgenders anyone. details. This rule is important for maintaining a safe place. If you can't change your ID, please let a mod know and include it in your bio.
Leftist infighting is not allowed.

Please remember to report posts that break any of these rules, it makes our job easier!

If you are looking for a more secure and safe trans space, we suggest you visit https://hexbear.net/c/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns. While we will try our best, lemmy.ml/c/transgender is far more open to the fediverse, and also to trolls. One of the site admins of lemmy.ml, nutomic, is also a transphobe, while hexbear is ran mostly by trans people and has a very active trans community.

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Trans women have no advantage in elite sport, new report finds (www.thepinknews.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

7 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

To expand on this. I think saying there are no differences between trans women and cis women in sports is a losing argument. Transphobes will just point any of the obvious differences in existing studies and try to make you attempt to prove the negative of no differences existing.

A better argument might be that in most cases any difference are irrelevant.

Such as sports where the womens categories exist to promote them as a marginalized group not for differences between cis men and cis women. Womens chess and W Series racing being two examples. Trans women are a marginalized group in a marginalized group they obviously should be included.

Sports where the importance of any difference isn't enough to support the argument of separating out trans women. I view this as any sport without any monetary or prestige standing on a national or international stage. Basically any sport that isn't a collegiate or elite level. Any difference just doesn't matter enough for middle or high school, recreation or any petry league. Just let them play.

The last group of high level competition is a bit harder to crack because this is where data just doesn't exist. If in the short term we have to split women's sports into a cis, trans and combined categories or put an astrix next to trans athletes so be it. Long term I think something akin to weight classes everyone will be categorized into should be created. These will probably be very sport specific and we need to gather data. The only way to do that is to let trans athletes compete.