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  • Sure. We don't necessarily have concrete evidence one way or the other on advantages due to numbers, but of the trans athletes that currently exist, the dis/advantage is unlikely to matter beyond a couple percentage points. With more trans athletes, we can get more determination into what effects transitioning has on athletic ability, but for the most part, it's not a real issue.

    The issue is that the average person thinks there are cismasc athletes registering as transfem, which isn't a thing.

  • I agree with him that physical men must not be allowed to compete in women sports against other physical womans. Its completely unfair to woman who have no chance to reach the physical level a man can reach in strength-based sports. And it kills all motivation for a woman to be an athlete when they cant reach that level.

    That doesn't happen. Men play in men's sports and women play in women's sports. If you mean trans people, trans athletes follow some pretty strict guidelines to play in most leagues that don't give them an unfair advantage (though, to be fair, there may be some physical differences between trans and cis athletes that might affect performance, but studies have shown that these differences do not make for more than a very slight advantage at best (and potentially a large disadvantage at worst!), and I'd argue that most cis athletes would be way better off just doing steroids than spending literal years transitioning to get this fabled advantage that doesn't exist.)

    But trans women do play in women's sports and trans men do play in men's sports. Your argument is that trans women should play in men's sports, yes? Should trans men play in women's sports? If you don't believe they should, then you don't believe they are women (which is valid, because they are, you know, men). But what is different about trans women? It is entirely feelings based, because the evidence doesn't show that trans athletes crush their competition. It doesn't even show that they win more often. Because they don't! They win just as often as you would expect a cis athlete does.

  • It isn't wrong to police certain speech, unless you think it's okay to threaten harm to people. We put limits on what is allowable, regardless of what you think. We judge people for what they say. All you're arguing is that the person calling people Dipshit should be allowed to call people Dipshit... And they are? There are no laws about calling people Dipshit or anything. Hell, you can yell slurs at people in most places. That doesn't make it right. It doesn't make them not a horrible person.

    You keep looking worse for wanting to call people anything you want without being judged. Do you get that yet?

  • It feels like your looking for a way to be offended. If someone told me they don't want me to walk next to them, I wouldn't walk next to them because we should be allowed to control a space around ourselves. If someone said they don't like looking at me, that's solved by them not looking at me.

    Reasonably remove yourself from a situation if you can. Don't harass people. Treat people how they want to be treated. Work together to solve problems. This is stuff children learn, it's not hard. Because the problem with your logic is that you can say "I'm allowed to invade your personal space. It's on you to leave."

    But, because you want to feel offended, you will likely say "Oh, what if my personal space is five miles around me what then?!?" to which I would roll my eyes, say ok, and let you enjoy your zero friends.

  • ... Are you suggesting Republicans can't coordinate or that they're too stupid or unaware to fix any problems?

    You are moving away from the main point, though, which is that all of this is the Republicans' fault. They can stop this at any point, and if they don't, then how are there any good ones?

  • Not wanting people to do things to you is not wrong. I don't want people to defecate on me, even in an affectionate or accidental way, even though it's not harmful. Is that wrong?

  • The saying "you can't butter a fly" is an idiom expressing that someone or something is too difficult to influence or manipulate. It's rooted in the idea that butterflies, with their delicate nature, are virtually impossible to convince to do anything against their will, let alone "butter" them in a literal sense.

  • Same argument that was made for gay people sharing locker rooms, bigots never get new material. If you're not comfortable sharing a bathroom with someone, then, ya know, you don't have to use it.

    Why is it queer people have to suffer for bigotry? Why not just be less of a bigot?

  • Because the only things that actual bother him are being called a fucking loser and weirdo. The actually shitty things he does, he would do a million times and feel nothing.

    And what you say can't be true, or the millions of lies he told would matter more.