And these libs wonder why we keep calling them the moderate wing of fascism.
Social democrats are the moderate wing; Bog-standard liberals are just normal fascists.
I care about trans women in sports
I hope they have a good time
except for competitors and some of their family members i’ve never heard anyone care about womens’ sports except for:
usa winning the world cup
that wnba drama in the last couple years
and all this transphobia that’s astroturfed as fuck.
If it were we wouldn’t have any women’s leagues because there would be no need for them.
How is a Woman™ supposed to compete with a trans woman in chess? Clearly we need to distinguish the two and only let trans women play against men.
Obviously society would never produce structures to reinforce patriarchal views on sex and gender. That would be absurd. Women are clearly more emotional and thus shouldn’t be able to vote, the law says so! /s
Can someone share some links so that I can be scientifically educated and/or sensitised on this matter?
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7846503/
- https://www.transresearch.org.au/post/trans-women-in-sport
- https://theconversation.com/do-trans-women-have-an-advantage-in-sport-the-genetics-of-sex-are-complex-279647
From my crossread of the literature, advantages in endurance sports pretty much completely evaporate over 1-2 years of gender-affirming hormone therapy (most importantly lowering testosterone). Advantages based on explosive strength, especially of the upper body, last a bit longer, and advantages conferred by denser or longer bones (such as height) tend to last even longer. After about 1 year on hormone therapy for endurance and ~2 years for strength, the physical advantages of having gone through male puperty are not completely gone, but they tend to be smaller than the natural variation between cis women.
clearly
Argument from “It just is, duh”
“Left leaning” to these people means that they lean slightly to the left while Heiling Hitler.
They Sig Heil with their left hand
I’ve even heard “leftist” people criticize people that say associating with conservatives and maga people (ie racists) is beyond the pale. Because these “leftists” have friends and family that are conservative and maga 😂
Like dude. You’re just an aesthetically liberal right winger.
The problem here is having a conversation with a feddit user.
Fed is right in the name!
If only it was isolated to those users
Ironically I am doing the very thing I have criticised others for doing. Lemmy server nationalism.
Yes but also feddit does not fool well distancing itself. Just today saw one calling lemmy world mods nazis and tankie sympathizers for simply telling that feddit user stop being so hostile and hateful to other users.
Still got multiple warnings…
The people on feddit instead of lemmyworld are there because lemmyworld is too left wing for them.
This is like a Chapo bit. I’m a Pelosi supporter, so trust me when I say that my opinion is literally the furthest most left-wing opinion there is: all budget items apart from police and the military should be budget neutral.
Love how the trans woman gets banned for being “hateful”, while all the transphobic pieces of shit can say whatever rancid stuff they want.
I saw world banned someone for an unconfirmed screenshot dm message, while people and comments in the same thread attacking people were either left up or given multiple warnings.
Get so much leeway when attacking those they are okay with being attacked
It’s the lib idea of “acceptable targets” no behaviour is too vile or amoral when it targets those who “deserve it.”
It’s the feddit.nl mods that banned her. On .world you can still see her comment, although the .world mods haven’t banned the shitheads either, so they’re still garbage
Oh this was in a completely different thread earlier today. And depending on the user I’m not sure they got completely banned
I looked at the rest of the thread and it boggles my mind that those horrific comments were just allowed to stay up. Are we federated with that instance, just curious?
Yep, we are
I don’t want to be too hasty to call for defederation since last time I did that, it turns out the cool instance owner simply hadn’t taken notice of the problem yet and resolved it immediately after, but I would say being tacitly permissive of transphobia should set the question on the table.
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That “very left leaning friend” is giving off a lot of Strasser particles…
Any time I see “biological woman” (to describe cis women) or “biological male” (to describe trans women) used like this, it’s pretty clear to me the person using it is a rabid transphobe. Not only is it objectively wrong, but it’s clearly designed to try to dehumanize and delegitimize trans women.
Edit: wording
I am a machine woman, it is insulting to be called biological
Can’t forget the meat popsicles
They’re going down the well you can’t let certain people into women’s sports because they would have genetic advantages path now. I don’t think they’ll like being asked does that mean we need to remove that for all sports (the genetic advantages) like height
My very left leaning friend:
Weird how it looks like all the ones also saying it’s fine to ban only certain treatments from the rare/lucky ones on federal Healthcare
very left leaning
She thinks that Kamala was only slightly too progressive!
Would’ve voted for Pete Buttigieg twice.
If we can light up a high school, we can light up a DNC primary event!
Anyone who uses “biological women” is someone who is anti-feminist and is about to tell you that women will have their vagina’s fall out if they run to much.
it’s the transphobe (or maybe transmisogynist is more accurate) equivalent to calling women “females”
