1y ago

South Carolina’s Dawn Staley comes out supporting transgender athletes ahead of championship game

www.advocate.com

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She handled that reporter trying to derail like a pro. Good on her!
Who is saying they shouldn't be able to play sports?
- The interviewer for one.
  But your question seems to be a disingenuous attempt to remove the context of "in competitions". To hide the constant and open discrimination against trans people.
  
  Why are you saying my question is a "disingenuous attempt to remove the context of in competitions” when the article we're talking about removed that context?
  It seems the article is trying to lie to people by telling them that trans people can't compete in sports, when in reality it depends on who is hosting the competition.
  Also, where does the interviewer say trans people cannot participate in sports? I don't see that.
- The person didn't even read the article and then goes on to make empty pedantic arguments in the comments....
  Poor FrostyTheDoo trying to have an actual discussion with a wall in the comments above.
- Tennis has allowed transgender women in professional women competitions for decades now. By your theory all the major competitions should have been swept by trans women. Can you try to guess how many big tournaments were won by trans women since then? (Hint: it's a very round single digit number).
  And it's not like it's a sport where women have a fair shot in a match with men with a similar amount of training - in 1998 Serena Williams and Venus Williams both got completely obliterated by Karsten Braasch who was the 203rd in the men's ranking back then.
- Fuck off with this shit
- Fuck off with this shit.
- Yay censorship!
  I wish lemmy had a feature to allow users to see censored posts without having to sift through the modlogs.
  Yeah. His comment was literally removed for saying "If you have dudes, it is easier to win against girls."
  
  Fuck transphobia, and fuck anyone who screams censorship at even the mildest content moderation.
  
  His comment was removed for being transphobic, as it should be. If your idea of not having censorship is being free to harass people, you can go to 4Chan

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