I love the liberal white chicks that write for this site, taking up for blacks’ plights. It’s never not completely awkward. Pls address the diversity issue at Jezebel.

Lance Armstrong is a douche and it’s highly probable that his podcast on this subject will be idiotic. But I don’t see where he has yet made the argument that anyone is “identifying as trans in order to gain an advantage in the world of competitive sports.” And that doesn’t have to be the position of anyone who…

I know this isn’t a popular opinion here, but soon Democrats are going to have to take an L on this issue. The polling data is awful and rapidly deteriorating. Already half of Democratic voters no longer approve of biological males in women’s sports. Republicans are well aware that they have the upper hand here.

That won’t be a problem once they realize that instead of banning books, they can just stop teaching kids to read.

“Men are not women. Women are not men.”

No reasonable person thinks it’s ok for biological men to compete against women in sports. Full stop. 

So, this purported “women’s” site is against something that a large, large majority of women athletes are in favour of....okaaayyyy then.

I used to believe that I could compete against men. I’ve always been bigger-boned and stronger than other women. I think my doctor described me as an athena type or whatever, broad shouldered and whatnot. I dominated boys in elementary school and I was rough with the roughest. I’d beat up on my little brother and…

Google British Olympian Kelly Holmes. Read what she has to think of this issue. Oh, and spoiler alert - she is not quite the shade of “mayo” as these other women.

It’s anti science to ignore evidence that has shown that post-op male to female trans women retain around 88% of their strength, even after 10 years of testosterone suppression therapy and being a 1 nmol/l (equivalent of a CIS female). Here is one such study. There are many, many more you can find via Google

Man is this an exhausting topic. So before anything else, of course this is a conservative attack issue. There are about 9 or so transathletes at the moment active in US collegiate sports and I don’t think there are that many more on a high level internationally. This is a remarkably closed loop issue that only…

but to sit here and be willfully ignorant that gender presentation is so powerful it literally erases genetic differences is naïve in the best light and irresponsible in the worst.

Correct.

Attack on transwomen? I thought it was attack on biological women instead.

Males never should have been allowed to compete in women’s sport in the first place. They should also be kept out of women’s locker rooms and showers when women say no.

Shhh. (we only believe the Science on vaxx issues, not issues of biological sex.)

While this is an excellent way for transphobes to find a way to be exclusionary towards trans people - is the argument that people who go through a male puberty would have an unfair advantage in female sports so outlandish?

There have been and continue to be emerging scientific studies that show that even well past post-op, trans women retain 95% of their strength even 1 year after starting testosterone suppressive therapy.

Because a 5’5" 150lb male is still stronger than a 5'5" 150lb female.

Because a biologically female body would not perform well against biologically male bodies, in most sports. On the other hand, a biologically male body will perform very well against a biologically female body in any sport.