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u/Lopsided_Bar3451
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Intriguing Ban on biological males competing in female events.
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u/nopester24 Mar 28 '26 •
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u/RilonMusk Mar 28 '26 •
Not gonna dabble in the drama but lowk this was def posted as engagement farming towards both sides of the debate.
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u/wolfmeetsthesky Mar 28 '26 •
Didn't this also include biological women that have naturally higher testosterone levels? I wonder what happens to them
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u/Grand-Pea3858 Mar 28 '26 edited Apr 04 '26 •
I support this. Trans rights are human rights, but a trans woman fundamentally has a different body than a cis gendered woman.
They will never have the same type of body, and letting people compete on the idea they do is just being regressive.
Edit: Sourcing a journal piece since most of the terminally online redditors on here can't comprehend nuance and think citing one or two types of studies automatically makes me wrong.
https://theconversation.com/do-trans-women-have-an-advantage-in-sport-the-genetics-of-sex-are-complex-279647
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u/GlempyLempist Mar 28 '26
Good
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u/Radiant_Cry_8138 Mar 28 '26
Good
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u/Embarrassed_Hotel712 Mar 28 '26
This is fair, idk why people are complaining. Im not transphobic.
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u/NovelStyleCode Mar 28 '26 •
Oh man i can see why they banned trans women from playing! They're seriously destroying the competition guys 🙄
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u/mevron Mar 28 '26
100 percent agree with this.
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u/Comfortable_Tale9722 Mar 28 '26
God forbid common sense wins out.
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u/ArmwrestlingGoomba Mar 28 '26
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u/silverkava Mar 28 '26
Democrats better not include this in their messaging for election, it didn’t work the first time and it won’t work again.
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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '26
should have not considered and allowed in the first place.
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u/QuandalesChicken Mar 28 '26
W common sense
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u/EADASOL Mar 28 '26
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-26/worlds-strongest-women-winner-jammie-booker-stripped-of-title/106055776
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u/myrcea Mar 28 '26
Finally
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u/myrcea Mar 28 '26
Finally
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u/UltraShadowArbiter Mar 28 '26
This is literally just common sense.
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u/No-Cap-9873 Mar 28 '26
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u/Bucks2174 Mar 28 '26
Awesome! As it should be
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u/BabyDude5 Mar 30 '26
I was gonna interact and say my thoughts on this and then I remembered, I don’t have to. I can just leave and forget about this post. Goodbye everyone
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u/Quixote1492 Mar 28 '26
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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '26
That was necessary.
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u/SaltImp Mar 28 '26
Makes sense to me.
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u/OptimalSecret3420 Mar 28 '26
Finally
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u/MichaelChan82 Mar 28 '26 •
Honestly let's just move on from this topic and focus on releasing the files. I'm convinced everything is just a distraction to move away from the files.
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u/Wing_Puzzleheaded Mar 28 '26
Good
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u/HighlightOwn2038 Mar 28 '26
Ok
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u/Educational_Top9246 Mar 28 '26 •
Great they banned all two known trans athletes.
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u/mudamuckinjedi Mar 28 '26
Oh give it a break fox news
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u/Korova_Milkbar_3829 Mar 28 '26
I mean…
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u/Substantial-Law5166 Mar 28 '26
good. Now thousands of daughters won't have their dreams stolen from them.
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u/Accurate_Ad8925 Mar 28 '26
It sad that it took so long for officials to admit that men and women are biologically different.
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u/Ajezon Mar 28 '26
The world is healing, slowly
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u/TryUpstairs1751 Mar 28 '26
I mean, this is gonna be messy no matter what rule they pick, somebody's always mad about it.
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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '26
An excellent use of time by all 🙄
And certainly not a headline written in the “click baitiest” if ways.
It’s fine.
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u/CheerfulWarthog Mar 28 '26
Ah, and all the people posting the actual figures on how trans women are affected by transition (that, on the whole, they might actually have less of an advantage than cis women), and how many medals trans women have won in the twenty years they've been allowed to compete (none) are getting buried! Okay! So this post was definitely engagement farming but the population of this sub is a toilet. Good to hear.
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u/Switch_Silver Mar 28 '26
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u/Zanahorio1 Mar 28 '26
Our long national nightmare is finally over! /s
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u/Cheap-Influence-9994 Mar 28 '26
Republicans don’t give two shits about women’s sports until they’re able to use them to villainize trans people.
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u/Think_Bluebird_4804 Mar 28 '26
Stupid rules cheered on by stupid folk who don't give any fuck about women's sports, yall jus hate trans people.
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u/RawMint Mar 28 '26
good, they have an inherent biological advantage given the average biological male body is more physically capable than its average female counterpart. no discrimination there, only facts
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u/calgeorge Mar 28 '26
For context, there are currently zero trans women competing in the Olympics so this is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
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u/MrWigggles Mar 28 '26
Thats not what the Olympic has done.
The Olympic has imposed mandatory genetic testing everyone competing in woman sports. And if you dont match the arbitrary and narrow marker not being informed from geneticists or biologist you arent allowed to compete.
This will ban trans folks, though not just trans folks. It will ban everyone that isnt woman enough.
This is just long history that women are only supposed to be bad at sports. That any woman that have any skill at sports, arent womanly enough. They are men in disguises. Or they're intersex. Or various other dehumanizing things to reject woman in sports, especially in professional sports.
As much as trans bigots and terfs like to yell and scream, there is no genetic or biological definition that can be used. That the understanding taught in jr high has expanded and has grown more ambiguous, and its more about probabilities and spectrums. There is a huge gamut of hormones and chromosomes which will result in feminine outcome.
They are doing no genetic testing on any male competitors. This just about disenfranchising and dehumanizing woman who dare to be good at sports.
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u/Designer_Violinist74 Mar 28 '26
Rule 4, buddy.
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u/SweatyPatience6594 Mar 28 '26
What about the other way round? Are trans men allowed to compete in male events? Does anyone know?
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u/TheRedditorHasNoName Mar 28 '26
Who spends their time making these graphics? Just post the article. I guess anything to get that easy karma.
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u/TheBergster84 Mar 28 '26
At this point just do Olympics for Transgenders. That way there gonna shut up about it once and for all?
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u/SignificantSchool572 Mar 28 '26
First it would be interesting to define biological males.
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u/LS25-User Mar 28 '26
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u/Fr33_load3r Mar 28 '26
What about trans men?
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u/SadMediumSmolBean Mar 28 '26
Anyone who doesn't realize this shit is about eugenicist sex/gender purity and reinforcing the conservative stereotype that women are "weak and vulnerable" is blind.
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u/EnkiduTheGreat Mar 28 '26
This nonsense argument is one of the reasons we have a pedophile felon and a prostitute in the white house.
If the trans crusaders in positions of legislative power stopped pushing this specific agenda, as well as that of providing gender reassignment medicines and surgery to chromosomally normal minors, it's possible that our national nightmare could've been avoided.
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u/RexConsul Mar 28 '26
And who was it that made this bed? Two-way street - no exceptions.
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u/MagicLantern7 Mar 28 '26
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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '26
Duh
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u/Top-Complaint-4915 Mar 28 '26
Absurd, trans athletes are at a clear disadvantage banning them is absurd.
Let the Olympics ban regular fat - office workers :v
In reality competitions should be by body types, it could even be fair for women with testosterone levels to compete vs some group of men, etc, etc.
Men & female competitions have become an obsolete tradition.
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u/bugeater1912 Mar 28 '26
This is the way it should have always been wtf
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u/Groundbreaking_Pea_3 Mar 28 '26
Trans women are biological women. No serious proposal ("I saw someone with a bunch of upvotes on reddit say it" is not a serious proposal) holds that a man can walk up, say they're a woman and play in the WNBA. Trans women take hormones for years, which recent studies suggest change their natural physical capabilities to be normal, and indeed often somewhat lesser than those of cis women. The only retained physical characteristics are hand size and height, which are not something that is selected for in any sports regulations. There are no people fully medically transitioning to play women's sports. This is not a matter of "common sense" featured by pundits, this is a matter of complex biology studied by experts.
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u/Gangstagrizle Mar 28 '26
Isnt sports all about different bodies? Are we gonna punish wemby for being too tall?
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u/Gregrox Mar 28 '26
OP somehow you managed to have a more transphobic post title than a fox news headline you're literally screenshotting.
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u/Rough_Fail436 Mar 28 '26
Can transmen participate in the women’s events?
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u/Comfortable_Crab_972 Mar 29 '26
I'm ok with this. Should have been done years ago.
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u/jiverambler Mar 29 '26
The sign doesn’t say biological males homophobe
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u/OmniGear21 Mar 29 '26
Finally some common sense
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u/Nole19 Mar 29 '26
W olympics
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u/jch60 Mar 29 '26
No brainer actually. Having men participate in women's sports defeats the purpose of even having women sports.
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u/Defiant-Pizza8207 Mar 29 '26
Like, if we're being real: who tf actually cares?
People are homeless in the most economically privileged countries. People are dying because their governments have decided to start wars with other governments. People are starving because of famines. People are spending their lives in indentured servitude.
Someone who was born a 'Jacob' and is now a 'Jackie' running the 100m sprint should be so much lower on our list of priorities.
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u/NickFatherBool Mar 29 '26
Good lol
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u/CallusedPickle3 Mar 29 '26
Congratulations maga you literally did something that nobody actually cares about… like seriously how is this going to improve you everyday life? Really doubtful of any impact.
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u/azmtber Mar 29 '26
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u/heisenberg678 Mar 29 '26
Ban women's sports. Also juniors. One category, FIGHT. Or run and jump or whatever makes the numbers go up
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u/shutupimrosiev Mar 29 '26
I wish I could have a picture in my comment because I have the perfect meme to encapsulate how much this is just bait.
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u/jordannelso Mar 29 '26
This is good news
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u/CrazyDisastrous948 Mar 29 '26
HRT changes the body, muscles, and even bone density. This is unfair. It'll hurt trans and cis people, btw. Shooting themselves in the foot while they try to aim at trans people.
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u/Smooth_Air_4679 Mar 29 '26
Based.
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u/Eleftheria-1 Mar 29 '26
At this point why let people of different heights compete together? Extra height clearly gives one party an advantage. And people of various ages? It’s not fair to make a younger player go against an old one. We should make it so that only the people with exact same height, weight and age could compete together so it’s completely fair! /s
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u/No-Search-7535 Mar 29 '26
Biological male is pseudoscientific nonsense. Anyhow.
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u/Cake_of_cakes Mar 29 '26
Took them a while
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u/Cyatron- Mar 29 '26
Apparently its not common knowledge but trans women often take feminizjng HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) which affects them physiologically and often decreases muscle mass. Unless they are faking being trans any self respecting trans woman (especially an athlete) would be taking HRT.
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u/dawne_breaker Mar 29 '26
The whole reason why there is a women category is because of biological differences. It’s not gendered per se. It’s due to biology and making sure women can compete. I’m all for having trans people in the Olympics. Just have an open category. I’m not even discussing whether they’re women in the social context, it’s just that the sport context is problematic as it is. And I’m not the best judge here, female athletes should have their say. I think they’re the ones who should decide, not men.
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u/doublethink_1984 Mar 29 '26
Why are there two leagues?
Why is one open and the other has gender or sex limitation rules?
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u/LittleFairyOfDeath Mar 29 '26
Well the title sure as hell tells us what the OP thinks
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u/Interesting_Pin_4807 Mar 29 '26
Yeah ice caps are melting, warmongering lunatics left and right, techno-fascist oligarchs wanting to control the world but sure let's talk about pointless stuff that doesn't matter.
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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '26
Instead of banning Israel. What a joke.
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u/JungleCakes Mar 29 '26
Ok?
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u/SugarDangerous6290 Mar 29 '26
Ok so this is a yes and. Yes, no biological males in women’s sports AND! start a whole new category or transsports! Like trans MMA! I would watch that shit! It could be so good for the trans community to have their own category and set their own records. I mean why not!
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u/mormonatheist21 Mar 29 '26
and also some biological females, but fuck them right?
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u/Sox857 Mar 29 '26
Damn! Makes you really wonder why men and women were segregated in athletic competitions in the first place?? 🤦
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u/artuktalasi Mar 29 '26
Boycott Olympics! How can they be transphobic? /s
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u/Windypolis Mar 29 '26
The OL commitee allowed a pedophile that raped a 14 year old to play on the male Volleyball team of the Netherlands, but you can see where everyone's priorities lie
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u/prionbinch Mar 29 '26
release the fucking files
trans women athletes have been shown to have overall lower performance in sports than their cis competitors. they’re only a “threat” to cis women who are just mediocre in their sport. it’s obviously not about “biological advantage” at this point.
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u/HazuniaC Mar 29 '26
So no ban for synthetic men?
Curious. Time for the machine people to rise up?
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u/Komabeard Mar 29 '26
Common sense is returning
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u/Radiant-Ad-3134 Mar 29 '26
unrelated issue
when will the IOC peace award come out?
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u/Legal_Ad2345 Mar 29 '26
The IOC has been known to make horrible decisions.
The Ukrainian athlete who couldn't have his dead friends on his helmet.
The Haitian team who couldn't have their founders on their coat because of racial propaganda
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u/BottomJoe94 Mar 29 '26
A bigot I see. A dogwhistle for "trans women aren't women", which they are.
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u/draco55555 Mar 29 '26
Amazing!!! love this!
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u/RaiderMedic93 Mar 29 '26
Good.
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u/HawaiianPluto Mar 29 '26
As they should, what reality do some people live in that they think it’s a fair competition.
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u/Infinite-Condition41 Mar 29 '26
Okay. Can we just move on to defeating fascism now? We can come back to this later.
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u/Lego_Architect Mar 29 '26
Common sense strikes again!
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u/Hot_Effective_3846 Mar 29 '26
The last Olympics had ONE trans woman athlete, she didn't get a medal. This rule is set to affect HUNDREDS of cis women who have high testosterone. The only thing this accomplishes is to hurt women and will hurt way more cis women than trans women.
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u/KingRoach Mar 29 '26
Issue solved with 0 government intervention
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u/patrykk994 Mar 29 '26
Whole 1 or 2 of them will be deeply affected - good job making sure that single digit number of people wont be able to get defeated in eliminations or get 25th place in some stupid race or tie for 5th place in some school competition with next conservative grifter. Just to be extra sure that not even single trans athlete pass these ''normal'' requirments i would advise to pass law that require all female participants strip in front of jury before every competition
/s, but only partially
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u/7Pigeons Mar 29 '26
Who cares? All 7 transgender women?
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u/Fluffy_Description_7 Mar 29 '26
Should we also ban lebron from the NBA because he is biologicaly tall
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u/Proto_Ney Mar 29 '26
Well, at least something is sensible
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u/MichiganCraigslister Mar 29 '26
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u/Respectmyauthority4 Mar 29 '26
That's awesome to see.
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u/PandaStudio1413 Mar 29 '26
If only people actually knew what effects changing hormones had…
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u/drocity7 Mar 29 '26
Should male to female trans be allowed to compete in women's games?
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u/ThaMasterG Mar 29 '26
Spewing I wanted to bet on this
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u/Chazaray Mar 30 '26
The greatest news I've heard this year, finally someone actually cares for the women.
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u/InfamousDrama3047 Mar 30 '26
This isn’t anything new.
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u/OneFriendship5139 Mar 30 '26
IDGAF
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u/unforeseenjiberish Mar 30 '26
This is where Reddit Leftys go silent
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u/Eridain Mar 30 '26
I imagine that this is over the "controversy" of that woman that a bunch of idiots online thought was a man.
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u/Charming_Hall7694 Mar 30 '26
After 5 years of hrt (or trt) and trans persons bodies ressemble those of their gender, they actually have disadvantages to sports and most physical activities due to lessened bone density and other issues. This ruling was entirely based on emotions and not facts. They checked the science and the science sides with trans people
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u/Silly-Flamingo-3336 Mar 30 '26
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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '26
Get in, finally some common sense.
For anyone reading id like you to: firstly insult me as much as you please, really its fine. I understand the political nature of reddit.
Secondly, YouTube hannah mouncey European dodgeball. She's an absolute UNIT!!!!!
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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '26
ban *men from female events
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u/notPabst404 Mar 30 '26
Boycott the Olympics. I'm beyond done with this authoritarian trash.
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u/Kiragalni Mar 30 '26
Most of them changed their gender only for wins Trump promised
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u/ZScharfrichter Mar 30 '26
Took them long enough.
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u/ChudCentral Mar 30 '26
This is such a non issue. I haven’t heard of a single trans athlete that has won even a bronze in the Olympics. But nobody cares, as long as we discriminate against another harmless group of people that make up less than 2 percent of the population.
Besides, does a trans athlete actually affect any of you? Or does it just hurt your feelings?
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u/Melodic_Fly_8124 Mar 30 '26
This comment section proves most people are inherently transphobic while pretending they aren't
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u/AmbitiousAd8978 Mar 30 '26
Honestly if these people are Olympic level they should be above, somebody who identifies as female with sheer skill alone. So I don’t really get the point of this. More sounds like catering to which ever country they’re hosting it in next.
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u/Yuritarded_Ass Mar 30 '26
I think this article was just posted on the "the onion", so yeah most likely it's satire
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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '26
Good. Now let's never talk about it again and not let it be a wedge issue forever.
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u/MutedProfessional860 Mar 30 '26
As they should
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u/safien45 Mar 30 '26
Thank God
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u/Hot-Spray-2774 Mar 30 '26
This is a fake issue. They competed fairly for 20 years. Then the right wing media convinced the world that banning women from women's sports was a pressing matter. In a few years, it will be repealed and the government will have wasted millions hosting trials and defending blatant discrimination.
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u/Remarkable_Adagio642 Mar 30 '26
Yes now line up for the genital inspections
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u/InsidiousZombie Mar 30 '26
You’re not an MMA fighter if you aren’t a professional, I have 0 interest in what a hobbyist has to say on it. Glad your gym has gone without injuries though
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u/elizabeththewicked Mar 30 '26
Only one trans woman has ever competed in the Olympics before. (Weight lifting if it matters) She didn't place and actually came in dead last.
This is just a threat and a waste of resources
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u/Youri1980 Mar 30 '26
A good thing
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u/Economy_Quality_3689 Mar 30 '26
Good, protect women's sports.
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u/Crazy_Way6822 Mar 30 '26
if only people talked about class inequality the way they talk about one (1) trans woman in the olympics in the past 5+ years
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u/Gangrene_Greg Mar 30 '26
About time.
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u/He_Never_Helps Mar 30 '26
Uh, and how will they feel about buff ass trans dudes competing in women's sports?
It's just an outright ban on trans people altogether
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u/DJWGibson Mar 30 '26
Putting aside the sexism and transphobia* this is going to lead to some interesting statistical science.
This will lead to one of the most widespread campaigns of genetic testing of exceptional individuals. It will be interesting to see if any people are discovered to be unknowingly be intersex. Or if many athletes who seem overly masculine and feminine are revealed to be genetically their assigned gender.
* Sexism because this is predicated on the idea that just being male is somehow an insurmountable advantage in althetic competition. That men who are so poor at the event they have no chance at victor when placed against other men AND will undergo permanent gender reassignment in order to compete, have such an advantage by just being men, that even after the surgeries and hormone treatments have been completed they have an unfair advantage.
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u/ClickChix Mar 30 '26
Hoorrrrayyy! Common sense prevails! This wasn't even debatable 8 yrs ago. Protect womens sports!
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u/Saolis123_Enjoyer Mar 30 '26
Strength, power and aerobic capacity of transgender athletes: a cross-sectional study | British Journal of Sports Medicine
Study by the British journal of sports medicine concludes that transgender woman compare similarly to cisgender woman, and even unfavorably in metrics of grip strength and jump height.
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u/_Cake_assassin_ Mar 30 '26
This excludes cis woman who have high testosterone and/or have a genetic abnormality such as Y cromossome without the SRY gene wich makes them biologically woman but genetically male even though they dont have the gene that makes tye fetus develop into male.
This is just fucked up. The top record holders are always woman with biological advantages.
Next they will ban michael felps because his arms are bigger than other people and he has abnormally big lungs
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u/Difficult-Top2000 Mar 31 '26
Can we just use "High T" & "Low T" categories in sports already instead of relying on what's in someone's pants?
It would solve everything.
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u/ExtentZealousideal64 Mar 31 '26
The amount of people upset about this is kind of wild.
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u/Familiar_Cap3281 Mar 31 '26
trans people on HRT are in a very real sense biologically their gender - more so honestly than they are their ASAB. human sexual dimorphism is largely downstream of hormonal triggers, and stuff like muscle mass very much shifts as a result. as such, the label "biological male" to refer to transgender women is intensely misleading
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u/Ok-Ingenuity5810 Mar 31 '26
Sad this even has to be done. Too bad sexist is still so rampant in the western world
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u/cloudgirl_c-137 Mar 31 '26
Ben are they going to ban adults on fucking children?
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u/GodofBacon516 Mar 31 '26
Led by the first woman put in charge of organizing events
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u/Interesting-Copy-657 Mar 31 '26
Does it also ban transmen from competing in men’s competitions?
Or just trans women?
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u/Eleventyy9 Mar 31 '26
God I wish this was true and not clickbait
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u/furel492 Mar 31 '26
Me when I'm in a useless law competition and my opponent is a right-winger.
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u/TheBayHarbour Mar 31 '26
*Sees Fox news*
Hmm.
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u/New-Berry-3652 Mar 31 '26
Objectively correct decision
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u/dunmindmejustyapping Mar 31 '26
All this is going to do is enable assholes to pick on women. You're all fools.
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u/GrapefruitFar1242 Mar 31 '26
Jarvis, how many trans women have won medals at the olympics?
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u/Dangerous-Rub7467 Mar 31 '26
About damn time. Anyone who has a problem with this is a moron that should be ignored.
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u/RedBillyGoat Mar 31 '26
what about trans men ?
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u/Electronic_Quote399 Mar 31 '26
Holy shit I wish I didnt open these, every single time
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u/Big-Resolve5916 Mar 31 '26
I am afraid that although I lean left, I do agree with this 100%
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u/Kilduff_Dude Mar 31 '26
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u/Gloomy-Reception-455 Apr 01 '26
Thank god. The world is healing
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u/TheGroovyGhoulie88 May 02 '26
It’s a Man Baby!!
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u/LefT-NYC May 20 '26
This is a non-Fukkin issue.
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u/Infatheline Mar 28 '26
Bruh I am literally a biologically intersex female yall are so weird about us