Katie Ledecky, for example, wins races by a far greater margin and occasionally turns in times that would be competitive for elite men.

There is no women’s prison for her level of military crime. She is never in contact with other prisoners, male or female.

My treatment should not be “lesser than”

I love when people like you do this type of thing. It really discourages people who want to learn while having a conversation with people who know the answers. That way cis people stop asking so many pesky questions and stop educating attempting to become allies! You’re like a Vocal Vegan but of the trans community.…

i know right

the report’s finding that hate crimes against all other groups barely
fluctuated, except for one

Not that you care, otherwise you’d know this, but women in prison often don’t have access to pads, tampons, or medication to mitigate menstrual related illnesses. I know that this might get me called transphobic, but I simply have to acknowledge that most women in prison have gynecological needs as they tend to be…

Right, Manning may not be a threat to female prisoners but if any man who claims to be a woman is allowed to be put in with women, it is only a matter of time before women are raped or abused or killed. The answer is for trans-only prison wings or facilities to be built. Women can’t always be the dumping ground for…

Even if they are, why should women’s prisons be the place where picked-on males are dumped? Maybe get trans only prisons built.

Okay, to play devils advocate, or just to have some fun dialogue:

If someone can be transgender, what’s stopping them from being “trans-race”? If she identifies herself as a black woman, who am I to say no, you can’t do that. Is someone who is transgender appropriating a gender? What difference is there with…

This is going to become a problem....the USA is starting to allow someone to change their gender on all their official paperwork. ....social security, drivers license and even talk of changing birth certificates so as to not potentially expose someone to the chance of embarrament by being identified as their old…

I think a little context would be really helpful:

Katie LeDecky just set the world record in the women’s 400m freestyle at 3:56.46. She destroyed the competition, being a full 5 second faster than the next closest time. LeDecky is probably the most dominant female swimmer in history.

The 8th ranked time in the men’s…

Is it an athletic advantage to be a man in a foot race? Yes.

Not to belabor the obvious, but we segregate on gender to give women a chance to compete. If we did not, “women’s competition” would likely evaporate because they would be competing directly with men.

“To the argument of her womanhood, I think it raises a gross set of questions...”

>I guess a counterargument to this idea is that top male athletes tend to have much higher testosterone levels than normal males, so isn’t that a similar advantage due to naturally elevated testosterone levels?

That’s fucking retarded. Then every failed male NCAA basketball player will just “identify” as a woman and take over the WNBA. This isn’t something that can be decided by feelings. It HAS to be scientifically decided to have any merit at all

You’re not “a foot too short to be a credible NBA player.” Muggsy Bogues stands 5'3" and was a first round draft pick. You don’t have the talent to be an NBA player. Which is not a good analogy for this situation.

If they are going to have separate competitions for men and women, there needs to be a clear distinction…

Here’s what the IOC has to say about intersex athletes, as well as transgender athletes:

I know that I am going to get blasted for this, but a lot of conservative Muslim clothing is very misogynistic. Not only do the clothes indicate that a woman’s body is something that she can only show to her husband (which is a disgusting idea), but they are really restrictive. They make things like swimming or…