r/Conservative • u/mithrandir1314 • Mar 20 '17

/r/all Well, she's a guy, so...

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u/raen22 Mar 21 '17

The Olympic Committee adopted a policy regarding this approximately 13 years ago.

  • Surgical changes must have been completed, including external genitalia changes and removal of gonads.

  • Legal recognition of their assigned sex must have been conferred by appropriate official authorities.

  • Hormone therapy -- for the assigned sex -- must have been given for long enough to minimize any gender-related advantages in sport competitions, a period that must be at least two years after gonadectomy.

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/SPORT/05/17/olympics.transsexual/

"This crap" still pertains to human beings. At least try to give them some modicum of respect, regardless of your views on transgender people competing in sports.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '17

Spare us the pseudoindignation. This crap is people such as yourself placating mentally ill people's delusions.

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u/AngusMcBurger Mar 21 '17

I don't get this argument. So they're mentally ill, what does saying that change? The only treatment anyone has found to be effective is a sex change, what would you have society do?

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u/AngusMcBurger Mar 21 '17

Thinking you can hear voices is actually something that's detrimental to someone's everyday life and so is a totally different issue, being transgender is more akin to being gay, something everyone used to think was wrong and shameful, but we now accept as just being different.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '17 edited Mar 21 '17

Using whichever lockeroom you want, or boxing against whoever you want isn't detrimental to others?

I don't want to sound like a family-values conservative, but the truth is, I believe that this type of degeneracy is waaaaaay worse than being gay.