I forgot you have superior revolutionary genes than me.
TERFs gonna TERF, I guess.
Do these words even have any real meaning? Back in 1755 when the great work of the English dictionary was undertaken, the great minds of the time surmised that the English language had peaked and it could only ever be debased from henceforth.Julius_Van_Der_Beak wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 11:26 pmI forgot you have superior revolutionary genes than me.
TERFs gonna TERF, I guess.
Just because you didn't understand them doesn't mean they don't have a meaning.Sinny wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 12:12 amDo these words even have any real meaning? Back in 1755 when the great work of the English dictionary was undertaken, the great minds of the time surmised that the English language had peaked and it could only ever be debased from henceforth.Julius_Van_Der_Beak wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 11:26 pmI forgot you have superior revolutionary genes than me.
TERFs gonna TERF, I guess.
They were right.
Aside from safety, I do think that the fairness issue is also compelling. In that sense, the most important voice in the discussion are the (cis) women who actually play and dedicate a lot of their lives to these sports.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_people_in_sports wrote: A 38-page draft document from World Rugby's transgender working group in 2020 acknowledged that cisgender female rugby players, when tackled by a player who has gone through male puberty, are at a significantly greater risk of injury. The document cites recent peer-reviewed or preprint research showing that trans women, after taking medication to lower their testosterone, retain "significant" physical advantages over cisgender women "with only small reductions in strength and no loss in bone mass or muscle volume or size after testosterone suppression”. The working group calculated that increased injury risk for typical players with female characteristics when tackled by a typical player with male characteristics was between 20-30%, and potentially reaching "levels twice as large" in extreme cases where the players are unusually small and large, respectively. Consequently, the document proposes that in the absence of persuasive evidence to the contrary, International Olympic Committee guidelines regarding a minimum 12-month lowering of testosterone are "not fit for purpose" in the context of rugby.
The British Journal of Sports Medicine has proposed that the 12-month treatments for transwomen that were proposed by World Athletics and the International Olympics Committee were not sufficient due to transwomen still being 12% faster than biological women after two years of treatment.
The last time I visited the Philippines, I was discussing basketball, and why on earth it is so popular there with one of the agronomists that works with my products there. It baffles me how anyone watches it anywhere, but it is insanely popular in the Philippines. He was bemoaning the fact that all the top players there are Philippino Americans, and that they have an unfair height advantage.
Yes it would be wrong. No, it is not improbable, it would be inevitable.Madrigal wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 4:55 pmBut what would happen if trans women were allowed to compete in women's sports? Would soccer teams be composed of only trans women, while trans track competitors consistently defeat biological women unti there's no point in them even signing up? It seems like any of these extreme scenarios would be highly improbable. But if they were to happen, would it be wrong (after all, 'they are all women')?
Though trans men would obviously be at a disadvantage is most men's sports, there are a few notable examples of trans men competing at high levels. Wikipedia has a list. Though the list is longer for trans women, there are a few notable trans male athletes, competing in the male category for collegiate swimming, professional boxing, etc.avolkiteshvara wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 3:48 pmWhere are all the transgendered men dying to be in mens sports.
A trans woman is not the same as a woman, a trans woman is a woman.
The evolution of language is a feature not a bug. I think this is a pretty minor alteration compared to what we've seen in the past. For example, the term 'girl' used to mean a child of any sex/gender.The alteration of language to suit peoples feelings, rather than to accurately describe reality is a dangerous and unnecessary rabbit hole to go down.