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Honestly I think this is just a bad take. I didn’t see it on lemmy so I’m posting it (never done this before).
For athletes and competitive sports, realistically that’s a discussion that you need nuance for.
Blocking trans women (and not men for some reason) from change rooms and washrooms? Are there even cases where trans women are creating issues? Lesbians are perfectly capable of ogling women in those spaces anyway.
Pretty sure that's purely a right-wing boogeyman. And, let's face it: a man who wants to spy on women in a washroom just needs a janitor's coverall and some small cameras they can plant while "cleaning" or "performing repairs".
Or you know just walk in and hide in a stall.
In my utterly not humble opinion competitive sports are dumb and sports should just be fun ways to stay healthy... as such I'd be happy to see sex specific sports leagues and sports leagues in general go the way of the dodo.
If you like competitive sports then uh... sex does have a pretty strong correlation with muscle mass and the like but so does a lot of other shit. We should probably just follow wrestling's approach and weight class everything.
We should just let every sporting body make its own decisions because every sport has different nuances that we don't understand.
I'm not into competitive sports, but I don't think they're fine. I'm in favor of gender neutral or weight classed leagues.
On some level though I think it's okay to tell trans athletes they can't compete in certain leagues. I'm colourblind and I can never be a firefighter or a pilot or a cop, and I had to back off from my dream of doing art school because I didn't think I could compete. There are biological restrictions which preclude things we want, and I do think being trans precludes competing in the sex based leagues, but as mentioned earlier we can revise our leagues to make them a better fit on a per sport basis.
While it is true that most trans women are very bad at sports because they're big nerds and generally can't compete, there are a few trans women who through great effort have managed to reach a level on par with cis athletes. For example a few years ago a trans person won an Olympic medal for the first time, and that's huge. Now obviously this is after 15 years of trans women being allowed into the Olympics, and hundreds and hundreds of cis women winning medals, so this isn't to make the claim that trans women are generally equal to cis women in sports. But eventually someone trans was good enough to compete at the Olympic level, and that's something to be proud of! I don't think we should be barring ALL trans people from sports just because most of us suck at them.
Yeah, but that's OK since it's sexy and makes his little PP hard.