If you think trans women shouldn’t be in women’s sports because you think that makes them male I want you to know I personally deeply dislike you and find you to be a vile person.
a good take. another option: sports are only segregated by gender in the first place because men are piss babies who cant stand the thought of losing to a woman, so just stop catering to fragile masculinity in the first place and divide the teams by skill level, or weight class, or any other actually meaningful criteria
Look I’m sorry but if you think the reason sports are segregated by gender is because MEN will lose then you are delusional. I hate to say that as a woman but it’s just straight true. They have waaaaay more testerone than us and it makes them stronger and faster and that’s just a fact. There are obviously exceptions but it’s true the great majority of the time and I think it’s okay to be honest about that. Women don’t have to be men to be just as good and valuable as men. I think we hurt women by pretending we have to be as physically strong as men because we’re not gonna win that battle. Why can’t we just be ourselves and value that?
I understand what you’re saying but you’re stating a lot of things as fact that really aren’t. Testosterone and hormones in general are really not the catch all you think they are. I’ve talked about this in another post I made but I don’t expect you to have known that but you should read this. Basically, sex is really complicated and multi-faceted and testosterone doesn’t realy work that way. There’s many things that go into it.
There’s also the fact that it is absolutely impossible to separate sex and socialization. WE can’t state for a fact that men are superior athletes because socially everything we’ve been told by that has been shaped by the idea that men are better. The article linked above mentions multiple times where sexually “male” athletes who, because of the way their genes were expressed, were considered women and did not experience any sort of advantage over their sexually female competitors. as well as referencing that no studies really prove that testosterone gives athletes an advantage. So those aren’t facts.
And yeah, womens leagues now are a necessity because mens leagues are forcing them too. But if we want to go back to the beginning of pro mens sports in north america. They’re not totally wrong. Sports were going to be mixed gendered but men had their feelings hurt. It’s changed since then, definitely. But They’re not wrong.
Womens leagues are amazing and they shouldn’t have to be compared to mens leagues to be that way. They don’t need to be physically superior to men. They don’t need to face off against mens teams to have worth. But we need to start acknowledging that men are put on that platform not because of sex and how that links to talent disparity. but because we live in a very sexist world that’s trying to portray biological sex as something concrete and simple when it is not. Women’s leagues are a necessary product of a shit system designed by men to make women and trans people feel they are lesser. They’re women trying to build themselves back up and find a place in that system. But the system relies on the fact that they are lesser.
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