A new law was passed in Australia, officially excluding all Trans people from sports because their gender is not recognised, only their sex.
Of course, an english professor had to leap at this opportunity to start a one-sided debate at my college. Closing off any student input, spouting false facts and ignoring several points which presses against her own 'facts'.
It's disgusting how much professors (even health ones) in Aus don't do their job in education as educators.Basically, of course targeting trans women she said " it'd be uncomfortable and unfair for the cis women having these 'natural men' on their teams " as well as misgendering, actively calling these transwomen 'he' 'it' or 'man', she's raising the 'obvious' genetic advantages trans women have in sports.
- Muscle mass
- Genetically stronger
- Advantage physically
Facts that debunk this, with a simple google search:
Transwomen in sport were required to have go through HRT Estrogen, and have their hormone levels tested. Ensuring they had the average amount of Estrogen that of a cis woman has. As well joined by the fact, Estrogen decreases muscle mass and strength of AMABs.
Several athletes with world records have had GENETIC advantages, such as doubled lung mass. Elite runners and cyclists having conditions that give them extraordinary advantages when it comes to their muscles ability to absorb oxygen and their resistance to fatigue.
Many basketball players have acromegaly, hormone condition which causes large hands and feet. Which you can easily see the advantages in this sport with such a condition. Swimmer Phelps was speculated to have Marfan syndrome which results in long and flexible limbs.
Cis women, can easily have increased testosterone levels naturally. As both AMAB and AFAB bodies produced testosterone and estrogen. Cis women can produce much more testosterone than their estrogen, having even more testosterone than a Transwoman on HRT.
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TRANSWOMEN DOMINATING WOMEN SPORTS? This is also a load of crap, most of these women had better results and score pre-transition. Cis-women are on top of all the records. This is a metaphorical situation that has never happened, and will continue to do so.
In all these ways, sports have never been fair.
Sex and Gender isnt the issue of fairness, its this need and expectation to protect and reinforce this idea of gender itself. These metaphorical and meaningless 'fairness' about biology only when it comes to transpeople. Specifically Transwomen?
Sport's should reinforce Equality, teamwork, access and inclusion. If they really want it fair, they should organise by competitors hormones levels. Genetic advantages. Weight and so forth. Otherwise, stop making up excuses to discriminate.
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