Maybe all the people parroting right wing media trans hate (masquerading as concern about female athletes) are unfamiliar with Renee Richards, a famous trans athlete from the 70's.
What is so suspicious about this sudden "concern" about trans athletes is that it's totally political. Trans athletes are governed by rules and regulations fro…
Maybe all the people parroting right wing media trans hate (masquerading as concern about female athletes) are unfamiliar with Renee Richards, a famous trans athlete from the 70's.
What is so suspicious about this sudden "concern" about trans athletes is that it's totally political. Trans athletes are governed by rules and regulations from sports authorities.
We don't need Tucker Carlson's "expertise" or that of Republican state legislators, who've already crapped the bed when it came to crazy abortion laws.
1) Trans women athletes are not a new thing, therefore don't require any outrage; 2) an example of a trans woman (who transitioned in adulthood) who didn't beat her opponent.
Lia Thomas is irrelevant now, so use Renee Richards as an example if you absolutely must discuss this subject as if it were a political issue (which you don't, nor does anyone else outside the duly constituted sports authorities; and it isn't).
I think it's because it's not viewed as an issue of fairness in that case. Which is why constantly being called bigots and transphobes by folks on the fringes, when we're really motivated by fairness, not hate, gets pretty old.
Maybe all the people parroting right wing media trans hate (masquerading as concern about female athletes) are unfamiliar with Renee Richards, a famous trans athlete from the 70's.
What is so suspicious about this sudden "concern" about trans athletes is that it's totally political. Trans athletes are governed by rules and regulations from sports authorities.
We don't need Tucker Carlson's "expertise" or that of Republican state legislators, who've already crapped the bed when it came to crazy abortion laws.
What about Renee Richards? I'm familiar with her.
1) Trans women athletes are not a new thing, therefore don't require any outrage; 2) an example of a trans woman (who transitioned in adulthood) who didn't beat her opponent.
Lia Thomas is irrelevant now, so use Renee Richards as an example if you absolutely must discuss this subject as if it were a political issue (which you don't, nor does anyone else outside the duly constituted sports authorities; and it isn't).
Richards transitioned in her forties. That's well past the prime of any female tennis player in the 1970s. And she still beat a lot of women players.
I wonder why nobody talks about trans men competing with men.
I think it's because it's not viewed as an issue of fairness in that case. Which is why constantly being called bigots and transphobes by folks on the fringes, when we're really motivated by fairness, not hate, gets pretty old.