I don’t understand why people are complaining about a women’s world cup player being trans
It’s still a biological female, playing against other biological females, which is completley fair? Why does gender matter? I don’t think trans females should compete in female sports due to the physical advantages - it’s not fair on biological females. But there’s no difference here?
Also, imagine if this was a biological man coming out as trans. Would we start persuading them to go be a female footballer? No, since we know that’s unfair on females.
This whole incident just shows in sports that instead of having some acceptance of trans people in sports, we whine and complain saying they’re in the wrong category.
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a trans man (if he was on testosterone) would totally have “advantages” if he was on T
also, the whole “trans women in womens sports” thing is tired. trans women have no proven advatage (or disatvantage for that matter). iirc they have to have testosterone levels below a certain point to compete (this might be wrong but i think i remember hearing it somewhere)
they aren’t so this incident is purely fair. For your second point, it has been proven that trans females still have advantages over biological females, particuarly in strength, so I still think for complete fairness it is best they stay in the mens category.
Actually, according to the British journal of Medicine (https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/55/11/577)
Also, I found a bbc article about it, but it didn’t list it’s sources (boo) so here is a tertiary source:
(https://www.bbc.com/sport/61346517)
Trans feminine athletes actually have a /disadvantage/ when it comes to physical activity. Estrogen and estradiol decrease the muscle-mass-to-body-weight ratio of a person, meaning more energy has to be expended to get the same amount of mechanical power.
It’s important for me to state this clearly: I am absolutely biased on this subject, do not take my word for it, please please do your own research on the subject. Politics has a tendency to break down complex topics into (often misrepresentative) digestible tabloids.
I mean if they’ve had a bunch of stuff done to make them exactly like a woman (and have similar strengths) and they’ve been doing that for years then sure, but if its a trans woman who still had the strength and all that of a male, then they shouldn’t be allowed to compete imo
“Biologically female” is kind of an ambiguous term. The way most people, (and you in this context) mean it is generally genitals. if you have x you are x if you have y you are y etc. This isn’t how it’s done in biology. Actually, the entire idea of being able to fit it into two boxes is itself flawed. The truth hates simplicity. There are people born with half of this and half of that, there are intersex people, there are people born with no genitals at all (By the way, intersex people are a lot more common than you expect - the percentages are about equal with the number of ginger people.) In biology, sex is classified as the size of your gametes (sex cells). If you have a lot of tiny gametes, those are called sperm and you are considered male. If you have a few small gametes, those are called eggs and you are considered female. It isn’t just that, though. There are plenty of species with more than 2 sizes of gametes, or only 1, or no gametes at all. Sex isn’t a binary, and any attempts to classify it as such almost always end up fruitless.
according to the UN, intersex people make up around 1.7% of the population (interestingly more than trans people, which make up 0.6% ((1/200 people)))
According to the World Population Review (which sources its statistics from governmental censuses), people with the ginger phenotype make up roughly 1-2% of the population.
(https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/percentage-of-redheads-by-country)
+1 it does, but nothing is wrong with this incident since it’s a biological female who is playing against biological females
Testosterone, on the other hand, has been proven to cause physical advantages in trans men who take HRT. It causes increased muscle mass. It’s comparable to steroids (since steroids are a derivative of testosterone)
people will be bigots and transphobes anyway. idk much about this particular incident, but conservatives usually just don't want trans people to exist.
Yeah, anything to complain about trans people. At least I’m consistent in my policies and thoughts with trans people in sports (sports are split into sex for fairness so they should compete in their sex categories, a biological female being trans and moving to male category though is fine as there is no advantages there, but if they wanna stay in the females category that’s fine)
i don't like exploitation/capitalism if that's what you're asking :)
what do you like? I know you’re very far left and liberal, but like what does that mean? What do you think is the best system?
I personally believe Socialism would be much better than what we have right now. Try watching this video if you want to understand more of what that means (it very clearly explains the myths surrounding socialism and what it actually means/involves):
socialism has been proven to not work, literally every single time. it has always led to tyranny. (go look at this list for proof, is any of these countries somewhere where you want to live? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_socialist_states#Current_socialist_states)
the main problem is that the work of dividing up everything has to be done by some central party, which is (so far) always selfish (because humans are by default). you need a central government for it to work, which always turns bad, due to the flaws in humans. and there’s also the lack of incentive to work.
in the end, capitalism isn’t great but it’s the only system we’ve got that works.
That video seems very sketchy. I checked the other videos on the channel, and they seem very biased. This, and the fact that they portray socialism as a perfect system make me think that there’s some stuff they’re leaving out.
There’s also just how propaganda-y it seems. “All of your problems are caused by capitalism. If we switch to socialism, all of your problems will disappear!” Overall, it doesn’t seem very trustworthy, but I also might just be biased because of the number of other similar video essays I’ve seen that turned out to be complete bullshit. Who knows?
I think it's probably the #1 most misunderstood economic system, as there is so much capitalist propaganda (from the cold war, etc.) still today. Most people who claim to be "hardcore Capitalists" couldn't explain to you what Socialism is.
what I mean is that you act like you don’t like conservative voters as people, because you’re always so negative towards them.
conservatives usually just don't want trans people to exist
who is “conservatives” referring to there? if it’s for voters, that’s uncalled for and also a huge generalization.
i’m not tryna be mean with this. i’m probably misunderstanding you, so i just want to clear up any uncertainty
i dislike the ideology. i didn’t say that i hate all conservatives, but i strongly disagree with the ideology/movement. :)
also, when i say conservatives, I’m mostly referring to politicians/corporations and the actual meaningful conservative groups that are perpetuating many of these viewpoints. however, in this case, i wouldn’t be too surprised if the majority of conservative voters agreed with the statement “trans people shouldn’t exist”.