Chasing the lies
They always frame it deceptively.
The fight over the rights of transgender athletes to compete in girls’ and women’s athletics has spilled over to more than a dozen states as lawmakers in Idaho, Montana, West Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, and most recently Florida have passed legislation since the beginning of 2020 to ban them from the field.
There are no such “rights.” Imagine saying “the fight over the rights of adult athletes to compete in children’s athletics has spilled over” blah blah – nobody would say that because the absurdity would be too obvious, but for some reason it’s not obvious when it comes to men trampling women.
Chase Strangio, a transgender man who serves as the ACLU’s Deputy Director for Transgender Justice, pushed back against the notion critics of transgender athletes have pushed, that they have an unfair physical advantage over girls and women. “The idea of trans dominance is completely overblown. It’s a myth,” he said.
It’s not a “notion” that men have an unfair advantage over women, it’s reality. We’re not “critics of transgender athletes,” we’re outraged at the obvious unfairness of letting males compete invade women’s sports. The issue isn’t “trans dominance,” it’s male dominance. They just will not report this honestly.
“At the Olympic level…the most elite level of sporting competition, trans women and girls have been eligible to compete,” said Strangio. “Laurel [Hubbard] will be the first trans woman to ever qualify. Her current statistics do not even put her in medal contention.”
Hubbard stole a medal from a Samoan woman at the Pacific Games. He should not be competing in the women’s events.
Doesn’t matter one f*ing bit. They are stealing places that rightfully belong to women or girls. It’s lying and cheating. They’ve already got their own division; if sport is so f*ing important to them, they can stay in the men’s or boys’ division. The women and girls they are cheating have no alternatives. Women haven’t even had a division for all that long. Now they want to take away what little women have.
Why does what men want matter — always — so much more than the rights of women?
Hubbard is 43! In a sport where peak age is considered to be 25 (26 for men). Only 2% of female medalists in Olympic weightlifting in the last 20 years have been over 32. There isn’t a category for over 39.
But no, there is no advantage.
Naif, we see the same thing with basically every trans woman that is an athlete. The fact that the trans woman is perhaps ten years older than the usual retirement age for that sport, and twenty years older than the average age of that sport, will never be voluntarily mentioned by the trans activist.
Holms@3:
Well, a lady never tells her age…
And…the bills defending girls and women’s sports from the Hubbards and McKinnons are being authored by loathsome Trumpists. The ‘don’t play into the hands of…’ argument doesn’t diminish the need for real protections.
I’ve seen claims that the bills seeking to protect girls’ sports actually hurts girls, apparently by subjecting them to evil intrusive testing to verify they are actually girls. It is astounding that people suddenly find themselves unable to determine, in the vast majority of cases, which students are girls.
This is usually in the weekly update from the Secular Coalition for Arizona, an organization which I otherwise support. Full of skeptics and atheists, they dismiss any bills against transgender athletes or using gender neutral bathrooms as attacks by the extremist conservative christians that dominate Arizona politics.