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Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming (www.theonion.com)
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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Most sports are dominated by people with genetic gifts. But having a little extra testosterone from a genetic quirk is a completely different thing than having extra testosterone because you were born with testes.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yet the end result is the same, an advantage over those that don't have it. Why is one fair and one unfair?

    Sport is arbitrary rules we decide. Some trans athletes are going to be better at some sports, not because of their trans status but because they work hard and train lots. It is just as unfair to exclude them in case another trans athlete has a genetic advantage, that most research says they don't have.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Do you have evidence that a cis woman with high testosterone remotely experiences the amount of testosterone produced by testes?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Why?

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It is one thing to have a quirk of the same organs, it’s another to be born with a different organ that effectively produces performance enhancing hormones.

    But fine, then ban cis-women with unnaturally high testosterone.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What is "unnatural" though?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Atypical of the vast majority

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's a strange redefinition of words.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    The definition is literally “not being in accordance with nature or consistent with a normal course of events”. How is that a redefinition?

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