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.
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.