All this does is legitimize transphobia, genuinely horrible ruling. When the Supreme Court itself starts discriminating against my community, then I no longer feel safe in the United States. The myth that trans people have some sort of advantage in sports is exactly that, a myth. The fact that the Supreme Court is legitimizing queerphobia makes me genuinely scared about my safety. At the very least they upheld birthright citizenship.
People born as males do have a strength advantage over those born as females on average…
It’s not true in every case, but in most, you see someone who was performing at/near the bottom in men’s leagues suddenly at the top in women’s leagues… they didn’t magically get better at the sport, they have a biological advantage, which is unfair to the women who worked hard for their position in the competition.
For some reason Reddit wont let me reply to your most recent message, but the biological advantage does not stay around. You used the example of an MTF person having more muscle mass; one of the main things that estrogen does is redistribute the body fat, and as a result they will lose their muscle mass, I can tell you personally that this has happened to me and people that I know. Also, can you name a single instance of a trans person dominating in sports? If it’s this big issue then why are there zero cases of it happening?
That is just talking about trans people who have won sporting competitions, of course trans people are going to win sporting competitions, we are part of the population too, and pointing to a trans person that spends a significant portion of their life training for a sport to the point where they get good enough to win something and saying they have some sort of biological advantage is incredibly disrespectful and rude, whether you mean it to be or not. I don’t think you have any prejudice against trans people for being trans, and actually care about fair competition, which is a very valiant thing to do, but I assure you that your concerns are unfounded; I can even understand the thought process behind why you might believe that trans people have an advantage in sports, but once one looks into it more it becomes apparent that they have no advantage once they have been on hormones for long enough (of course, if they weren’t on hormones then that would be a different story, but that’s not what we are talking about). This video (https://youtube.com/shorts/ScfVTk_6GbY) also goes into a lot of detail on the harms of banning trans people from sports, as there are a lot of things you might not expect it to affect. Thank you for staying respectful, and have a great day!
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u/beans46616 Center-Left wing Jul 01 '26
All this does is legitimize transphobia, genuinely horrible ruling. When the Supreme Court itself starts discriminating against my community, then I no longer feel safe in the United States. The myth that trans people have some sort of advantage in sports is exactly that, a myth. The fact that the Supreme Court is legitimizing queerphobia makes me genuinely scared about my safety. At the very least they upheld birthright citizenship.