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This isn’t about a transgendered league, though. This is about real women and girls no longer able to compete because men who think they are women/girls have taken their place. But you think that’s fair.No problem for me. Maybe they could play against a team of biological girls/women claiming to be men. A transgender league might be interesting.
Genetic (XY) men, who are truly gender dysphoric, take estrogens as part of their transition. So they are feminized. But even so, you’re assuming that men are inherently better athletes than women. That’s not necessarily true. Trained women are formidable. If you were around in the 70’s, you’ll remember Billie Jean King wiped the court with Bobby Riggs in their boy v. girl tennis challenge.
Not to go off topic, but fillies run against stallions all the time in thoroughbred racing. Though no filly has won the Triple Crown, they have won the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont. And they’ve won steeplechase competitions. Heck, if horses can do it, why not us?
Well okay then. Women should be almost as good as horses.Genetic (XY) men, who are truly gender dysphoric, take estrogens as part of their transition. So they are feminized. But even so, you’re assuming that men are inherently better athletes than women. That’s not necessarily true. Trained women are formidable. If you were around in the 70’s, you’ll remember Billie Jean King wiped the court with Bobby Riggs in their boy v. girl tennis challenge.
Not to go off topic, but fillies run against stallions all the time in thoroughbred racing. Though no filly has won the Triple Crown, they have won the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont. And they’ve won steeplechase competitions. Heck, if horses can do it, why not us?
Thanks. I was wondering what rationalization would be used to discriminate against women.Yep. My wife runs rings around me almost every day.
I didn’t really answer your OP question in the necessary detail. If there should be a team of properly diagnosed gender dysphoric men, who are taking estrogens and transitioning under medical supervision, then I see no reason why they shouldn’t compete against a women’s team. And I’ll bet the women athletes would welcome the challenge. And I’ll say the same for the reverse. If there was a team of gender dysphoric women, taking androgens and similarly undergoing transition, who wanted to compete against a men’s team, then why shouldn’t they?
The question is a strawman-type situation. That's why I didn't vote.
That’s still not explaining how this is a straw man. There are actually men who think they are women who want to play on women’s teams. So the question is whether you’d be okay if the whole team was made up of these men?
The fact that you aren’t actually addressing the OP says much. This is typically the type of response I’ve seen to this question. Everyone knows what the facts are, but only some of us will actually state that’s there’s an inherent flaw in letting men compete as women against women.
