And by your own admission science is in flux. Scientists many years ago didn’t think handwashing was effective or necessary for medical practice. Someday BMI will be abandoned and so will making assumptions about health based on pure visual appearance (also known as prejudice).

Oh I got the point. The point was to push what is essentially eugenics. There is no “standard” body type and there is more than enough evidence to show that we should move away from assuming that because once you say there is you have to start defining it and those definitions will come with biases that inevitably…

BMI was debunked a long time ago as a racist pseudoscience

Christ, fat people can't even sexually harass their employees without some fucker making it about their weight. You people are really just completely incapable of seeing a fat person and *not* talking about it. Do you think you're original? Does it make you feel like less of a sad fuck?

Lizzo shouldn’t have to carry the burden of being a perfect fat black woman, but this is messed up, and I hate that now all the fatphobic racists think they’re proven right.

Well they had to say grace before eating the banana.

I think that is actually a conservative figure, as most women who have or do suffer from family domestic violence have never reported it.  But yes, one in six women have experienced it in their lifetime.

Trans women are actually usually disadvantaged as athletes, since they have a lower muscle-to-bone mass ratio post-transition. They keep their skeletal mass, gain fat and lose muscle.

How about the fact that during her prime she supported trans woman Renee Richards participating on the women’s tennis tour and later hired her as a coach? If she was so concerned about the “unfairness” of letting women who were assigned male at birth compete against cis women, explain THAT.

Just imagine what the Gallup polling on allowing Black players into the major leagues before Jackie Robinson would have been. The vast majority of people who are arguing most fervently against trans women’s inclusion are the same ones who let us know at every opportunity how little they care about women’s sports other…

It’s something to do with the shadow on the dress, our eyes’ ability to take in a spectrum of light, and the quality of the image. Frankly, I still don’t really understand it.

on topic: trans athelets have been allowed to compete in the olympics for twenty years and not a single trans medallist has emerged who has won a medal while maintaining HRT regimen. All professional athletes are biological freaks with (for the most part) work ethic — and ZERO cis have been defeated at the olympic…

Seeing a lot of ‘evil double’ accounts commenting, that stole the display name of an actual commenter, while posting some really stupid and often hateful shit. It’s not clever, it's just pooing in the pool of public discourse.

These people do not know what goes into being trans. Trans girls and trans women take testosterone blockers and female hormones, and it changes their bodies a LOT. There are no “males” competing against females. Just because the majority of Americans are against something, does not make them right. There was a time…

Trans women are not men. They take testosterone-blockers and female hormones, and this changes a LOT about their bodies and minds. There are no “men” competing against women.

Remember that trans woman runner in a marathon who came in the middle of the pack? Transphobes where trying to make it a big issue. Why? Because they thought a runner who was in 12941nd place deserved to be in 12940th place instead. The transphobia was pretty obvious.

It’s possible to admire Navratilova for being a trailblazer back in the day and still be critical of her present stances. A lot of people’s views calcify as they age. Calling her out doesn’t diminish her previous revolutionary accomplishments.

It’s pretty depressing to see how the Right has succeeded in turning natural allies into enemies. Plenty of gay people and feminists have subscribed to the same conservative ideology over this issue. Especially the completely nonsensical argument that the existence of a tiny, tiny number of trans athletes somehow will…

No one is refusing to serve anyone. Even in the bakery (fake, entirely orchestrated) case, the baker didn’t refuse service he just refused a specific request that he felt defied his beliefs.

FYI: The Dr Emilio Lizardo (account: paging-doctor-parody) imposter account posting here in this thread is NOT the …