Most people agree with here because her stance on this is, for the most part, objectively true. This is reflected by the ever increasing number of sport organizations banning trans women from competing in women’s sports. This is the default opinion in society and the world at large. The only people who think otherwise are secluded online echo chambers.
Eheran@lemmy.world 2 months ago
advocated for banning trans women from […] sports teams.
What do people here think of this?
SleezyDizasta@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Emperor@feddit.uk 2 months ago
It’s an incredibly complicated issue, even if you look at individual cases (like Caster Semenya) and there’s almost no easy way to define what you mean by a woman. Ultimately it’s down to the individual sporting organisations to decide how to call it based on expert advice and any decision is going to disadvantage some athletes. If they think the decision is wrong, then there should be a way to appeal decisions because it can come down to difficult analysis based on each individual’s life history.
A compelling argument I’ve heard is that the greatest performance enhancing drug is being exposed to testosterone during puberty and that seems to be the base line a lot of the sporting organisations use. However, even then it is difficult to call for individuals and would need expert testimony on each individual case.
DessertStorms@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
It might be compelling, but that doesn’t make it true (the testosterone in puberty part, not the sports organisations using transphobic rhetoric part, though as you can see bellow, even the International Olympic Committee, arguably the biggest global sports organisation, doesn’t advocate this thinking)
forbes.com/…/transgender-athletes-could-be-at-a-p…
HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well, either expert testimony or a transphobic bore screeching about it on Xitter.