cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/40174373
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a pioneer for LGBTQ+ rights who decades ago upset leaders in his own party when he defied state law and issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples, suggested Democrats were in the wrong in allowing transgender athletes to participate in female college and youth sports.
Garbage comment. Transgender women have the right to participate in the sports that match their gender.
Women have a right to their own fair competition.
The entire reason we made women’s only leagues was so they had somewhere to compete against other women fairly.
Almost none of the major sports leagues have any rules specifically preventing women from participating. They simply cannot compete again men directly on a physical level at the top most level of competition.
The Williams sisters are arguably two of the greatest female tennis players that have ever lived on earth and they were both beaten handily by the 203rd ranked male player at the time. https://www.tennisnow.com/Blogs/NET-POSTS/November-2017-(1)/The-Man-Who-Beat-Venus-and-Serena-Back-to-Back.aspx
Women’s sports need to only be for biological women in order for them to be fair.
Just seems like this is coming from a place of deep ignorance to be honest. The Williams girls are just starting their career in that story, Serena started at 14.
Just to cut to the chase, you watch women compete out there, right? They’re brutal. And trans women, you’ve watched them play too, right? Because they get stomped by girls just like all the other girls do.
If there’s a quantifiable advantage, it’s nestled deeply in sports nerd statistics, which are - to be blunt - bullshit for bubblegum cards.
If you really believe there is no advantage then why does absolutely nobody care when ftm athletes try and play? It’s because they don’t compete anywhere near the top when they do that. When men transition to women they seem to have this uncanny habit of absolutely smashing records in women’s sports and taking the top spot in many competitions.
Sure not all mtf athletes just walk in and destroy the competition but it’s literally never happened a single time with a ftm athlete. Why do you think that might be? Could it just be a bunch of coincidences? Or could it be because there is an underlying issue with allowing someone who was once a man to participate in a women’s league?