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1. Athletic competition is rife with unfair advantages. And transwomen take testosterone *blockers*
Sun Nov 10, 2024, 06:14 PM
Nov 10

I played basketball and volleyball with guys who were a foot taller than me. Is that fair? Not at all!

If they divided sports divisions by weight or height or something actually relevant to the sport, that's one thing. A football division for anyone under 150lbs makes sense, and then anyone over that limit competing in the under division would be competing unfairly. Fine.

But doing it based on gender or sex more of a social division. As a guy, I would have been clobbered had I played in any women's sport in college, because they were all bigger and stronger than scrawny little me. *no one* would say I was competing unfairly, they would be laughing at me instead.

They not interested in "fairness". They only interested in being cruel to trans people. Erasing them if possible.

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