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John Oliver is The Hero! (lemmy.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

ELI5 this for me, I'm not even on this sub but whatever.

Everyone loves Messi, the dude takes a metric shit ton of forbidden drugs because he has a medical issue, wins a WC and competes because everyone recognises and accepts a medical condition is an acceptable reason to have exceptions.

Then, enter trans athletes. They have a medical condition, they take drugs to remediate the fact they were born in the wrong body, they win because the karma for the immeasurable amount of suffering they endure is being good at a random sport. Everyone dislikes that and calls it cheating.

I'm not an ally or anything. Being in the EU and seeing the fandom of Messi, can someone please explain to me why that cunt of a tax dodger gets an exception and Mary from down the street, who just won the district football competition, and wants to live her life in peace, is called a cheater.

Just make it make sense, and while you're at it, explain why the fuck is this a discussion that permeates the airwaves almost weekly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (10 children)

I'm gonna be killed for this, but is the number of successes the same for F2M as it is for M2F? I'm genuinely curious.

I'll gladly delete this if it's terrible.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Okay honest question. I have no idea what the truth here is, so please dont come at me.

There was this whole thing with a trans woman mma fighter, who won big or something. People said it was unfair.

Was it? Wasn't it?

back when, i guess it made sense for me. I am all for people being who they are, but not participating in punching each other in the faces seemed like a fair compromise, i thought.

But i don't know, is it? What do you guys say?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (16 children)

The men complaing about it can also fight the mma women to find out how "easy" it is.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

https://tube.fede.re/w/16650f54-3c69-4d81-b7ae-17f0a3889dbd

The John Oliver video goes through your concerns and talks about how:

a. most trans athletes haven't been winning big, ppl with an agenda have been twisting facts to make it seem like they have.

b. a blanket ban is not the answer, but each sport competition making their own rules based on how many years of hrt the athlete has been on, how much of a difference sex makes for that sport, etc. Which is what was happening for years.

c. There are much bigger and more common issues with women's sports that we need to address like coaches assaulting athletes, lack of resources compared to male teams, etc. And the same ppl claiming to protect women's sports by banning trans athletes are voting against measures to fix these issues.