The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee quietly changed its eligibility rules on Monday to bar transgender women from competing in Olympic women’s sports, and now will comply with President Trump’s executive order on the issue, according to a post on the organization’s website.
This might not really apply to you and your beliefs, but I think it’s a discussion worth having and considering.
There are (were, I guess) trans woman competing. Why would their presence change their right to compete? Additionally, the studies are few and far between due to very low sample size, but there isn’t good evidence proving that trans women have a statistically significant advantage in women’s sports after being on HRT long term (2+ years). Most trans women that previously competed in men’s sports perform similarly compared to women after HRT as they did to men before.
The conservative “evidence” for trans women having an advantage is simply pointing and going “see!!” any time any trans woman places better than any cis woman, even if they’re well within the statistical range of women. If trans people are allowed to compete, are they allowed to ever win? In professional sports, getting lucky in the genetic lottery plays a large role in determining success. Katie Ledecky is incredibly successful due to her practice and training, but wouldn’t be nearly as successful without a body conducive to swimming. What’s the difference between a cis woman being born with broad shoulders and longer arms and a trans women doing the same? No one is transitioning for a competitive advantage. It’s a ridiculous notion. There really isn’t a good argument against trans women in sports that doesn’t rely on invalidating their gender or vibes-based cherry-picked pseudoscience.
I really want to read this, but it’s crazy long… But to answer your first sentence. I don’t have any opinions on it. I couldn’t care less. It’s such a non issue to focus on from the republicans. It’s something that sounds serious, but really isn’t. Because again, there’s not that many trans in the Olympics for it to be an issue. But putting it out there, together with how much the media is trying to profit from “woke” ideologies - making it all warped… It’s a mess, a complete shitshow. Add to that how fast information is coming at us. Then you got a shitshow where you can spin the narrative to some insane story to rally the masses. But, as I said, I really don’t care about it. Because I’m not trans. I care that the trans care and about human experience, but since it’s not my experience- I can’t speak on it. So, you do you and fight your fight. We all got our own injustice that rules our life.