Rapinoe is only still on the team because she made herself the “face” of the sport. She’s 38 years old; well past her prime. I’d bet good money that a 22 year old trans woman would run circles around her. Let’s give it a go. 

Why isn’t this happening the other way around?  Why aren’t mediocre female athletes transitioning and suddenly winning medals in the men’s division?

The idea that trans-women competing doesn’t hurt cis-women is ludacris. If biological sex doesn’t matter why has there been multiple “elite” trans-women athletes but no “elite” trans-men. Unlike Rapinoe, Martina was coached by a trans-athlete who competed against women in the 70's. Renee Richards, the pioneer for…

If you followed Navritilova on Twitter rather than cherry-picking what you figure will gin up the most outrage, you might pick up on a thread that all the “TERF!” labeling of her and others drowns out. Women should be the only ones who get to decide who is a woman. How you “identify” or however deep you are into…

You really don't play sports do you?  She tied for 5th place yes but it was at the NCAA championship.  Do you have any idea how tough it is to even get to that level?  Your scholarship depends on your continued performance.  Good grief. You sound ridiculous. 

A bunch of women who have never played sports in their lives trying to convince the country there’s zero difference athletically between men and women and Democrats are allowing them to run point on this issue. Smh.

Rapinoe’s appearance screams confusion, attention-whoring, serious psychological issues so...
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Martina is a legend and she has experience

Since everyone here seems to have dug in their heels regarding biology, how about we just look at political realities for a moment. Because the polling numbers for including biological men in women’s sports are fucking awful. The numbers were already bad in 2021 and they’ve gotten much worse since then.

Are you guys allowed to have a different opinion on anything ever? Men competing against women is fucking stupid. I cant believe you guys pretend it isn’t.

Agreed.  The Variety article has really important context which should have been noted here.  But, agendas.

Yeah for whatever reason Morning Spoilers can’t be assed to put more than an (incorrect) sentence about it, rather than actually explaining what’s happening.

It is so bad! What a strange detail to leave out on the first day of the SAG strike.

Read the Variety article.   It is because the local union in the UK is legally barred from a solidarity strike with SAG.  For some weird reason, Linda and Gordon dont think that bit is important to mention.

Linda/Gordon you need to rewrite this:

Thank you. Can’t believe this article literally doesn’t expand beyond the headline, and doesn’t even mention the actors’ strike, only the writers’ strike.

To expand on the House of Dragon blurb:

I want to be more excited about this (Blue Beetle was consistently a character I enjoyed from Batman: Brave & the Bold), but I dunno, it just feels like... leftovers from Spider-Man: Homecoming? And honestly just Spider-Man in general.

They are allowing the largest software company in the world, and the third largest company in the world by market cap, to purchase the largest game software company in the US (non first party).  That is fucking horrible.

the person youre replying to is almost exclusively using first person except for a couple of passive voice statements and mentions of their wife. doesnt suggest anywhere that the whole interconnected universe thing is going to work out for anyone other than themselves.