How far are we from the day when this final dog whistle gets lifted? Right now, they say they don’t want her because she supports “DEI.” How many years before Republican states will have the courage to just say “because she’s black”? Five? Two? One?

What a surprise. A whole bunch of commenters that are normally rightly ignored for being racist, misogynist, rape apologist scumbags managed to farm a shitload of of stars by playing to cis women’s transphobia. It’d be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic.

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…

Ms. Rapinoe is welcome to all my cookouts. Salute!

I would just like to point out that there are men who volunteer to practice with the WNBA and get their asses handed to them, and they like the challenge. I agree with the comments that a trans woman would be receiving hormone treatment to help her on her journey and lessen whatever ‘male advantage’, and elite athletes…

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…

Oh I don’t know, maybe...

Congratulations to Anheuser-Busch for running a campaign that’s so disastrous it has not only enraged the astroturfed blowback to the original campaign, it has also made everybody else mad at them for not at least like “Checking on on Dylan to see is she’s okay.” 

No. “Battery” requires physical contact. “Assault” merely requires the person feel physically endangered or threatened.

No, I don’t actually believe it, because I was also on the internet ten years ago (and before), and I can tell you from experience that you are flat-out wrong. Hilariously so, tbh. What you mean is that you didn’t see it.

“These days”? “anymore”? Pops, it was always like this. The difference you’re feeling is that it used to be that only certain people were tone-policed.

It started when women, LGBT+, and POC people decided to stop being silent regarding the “jokes” targeted at them. Then cis white people coopted the language and reversed it to prevent any open, honest, critique of their behavior. It's now hateful to call out someone for being hateful.