cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/66087691
The International Olympic Committee will prohibit transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports, starting at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
The new policy, approved by the IOC’s executive committee Thursday, requires all athletes to undergo a genetic test to compete in women’s sporting events at the Olympics.
The whole point of the Olympics is people who are the absolute pinnacle of human ability competing against each other. If they were genuinely born like that, then that’s just how things go, just like how some people are taller or stronger than others.
Well, unfortunately, I was genuinely born a woman. Though everyone, including myself, got it wrong for about 20 years.
I believe that to compete in woman’s sports early on in my transition might have given me an advantage (emphasis on might. I would’ve had to be an already athletic trans person, which is an overlap of a rare category and an ultra rare, but it does happen and obviously needs to be accounted for.) But at this point? After taking estrogen for a decade, any ‘bonus’ muscle mass I got from having extra testosterone (which can happen to cis women too, as a reminder) is definitively gone. I actually lost it on purpose because it gave me dysphoria, but even if I hadn’t it would be gone by now. I’m tall for a woman, but that’s it at this point. I’ve met taller (presumably) cis women than me too. I also think they should be allowed to compete against other women.
So, with that being said a trans man, who is superior to cis men, should be allowed to participate or no? If they are at the pinnacle, why not?
So you don’t actually give a shit about being fair or logical, just targeting trans women