• Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    22 hours ago

    I don’t actually know the real effect of stuff like testosterone in high level sports, but if it’s significant, one could argue there should be two or maybe more categories for different amounts, and a category with no limits. Kinda like weight classes in fighting sports but with hormones.

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      21 hours ago

      Cis women have testosterone too, and gender testing might exclude them from women’s sports just like trans women if they have too much.

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        20 hours ago

        Also, most trans women are specifically blocking testosterone, and often have significantly lower levels than cis women.

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        20 hours ago

        Yeah but if it’s that important to the muscles/effort thing it probably should be the determining factor to segregate athletes in performance-based categories instead of their biological or physical gender

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          20 hours ago

          Or, how about we stop trying to protect mens’ fragile feelings from being beaten by girls and quit pretending that we can segregate our way to competetive fairness?

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            20 hours ago

            I mean, sure. You’re acting like this is all my fault when I’m just trying to look at this critically. Do you know how little I actually care about competitive sports?

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      21 hours ago

      Is whats being proposed AFAIK but seems it will take a time to catch on. All the while this fuckers keep on doing the same transphobic shit.