• circuscritic
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    10 months ago

    What I’m going to say has nothing to do with the Algerian boxer, she was born a woman and if we started banning athletes from the Olympics whose rare genetics gave them an advantage, there’d be no reason to watch.

    trans women are actually at a competitive disadvantage since hormone blockers also nullify the low levels of Testosterone that women produce naturally.

    That is objectively false for combat sports. Blockers do not reverse the years of effects that testosterone has on their bodies development, such as skeletal structure and bone density.

    I don’t understand this insistence on denying reality for the very niche topic of trans women competing in combat sports, it is dangerous.

    If you don’t believe me, go listen to the interviews of female MMA fighters who Fallon Fox destroyed, and I’m talking like fractured skulls.

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        10 months ago

        No, I cited a very specific and highly relevant scientific rationale, and then followed up with an example of what happens when you choose to ignore that reality for the sake of, whatever it is you believe you’re doing.

        Combat sports are combat sports…MMA, boxing, etc., they’re COMBAT sports.

        But I can tell from your ignoring the scientific reality of the situation, and choosing instead to call me a discriminatory fuckwad, that you’re someone who should be taken seriously. Clearly I’m not up to that task…

      • @ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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        910 months ago

        Even in a section of internet that is massively pro lgbtq, you’re being down voted for saying such utterly ignorant things.

        Muscle mass completely aside, men are designed to punch better than women. The hips, arm length, and size of their hands are all better for combat sports and hormone treatment doesn’t take any of that away.

        You don’t sound pro Trans so much as you sound anti cis. Like you just hate most of the population.