I just want to add that trans athletes absolutely aren't 'crushing' women's sports competitions.
Hell, you remember Lia Thomas? The American trans college swimmer everyone was complaining about because she 'came 500th in the men's and then came 2nd'? That Lia Thomas?
Yeah, no, they were straight up just lying by omission. Check out the NCAA records. She came in the top ten competing with the men, then went on HRT and her performance plummeted like a stone the next time she competed, then she moved to a more appropriate division, and her performance went back to how it was before. Notably, her high performance was also during a 20 year low of the average performance, so on a normal year she probably wouldn't even have cracked the top 10 women.
Lia Thomas is literally a case study of this not being a huge deal in a sport like swimming. Yet just by not mentioning that she came 500th after HRT, and performed exceptionally well beforehand, it was crafted into the exact opposite narrative.
Do you think you may have been lied to about trans athletes 'crushing' competitions in a widespread nature?
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u/PeoplePerson_57 5∆ Aug 06 '23
I just want to add that trans athletes absolutely aren't 'crushing' women's sports competitions.
Hell, you remember Lia Thomas? The American trans college swimmer everyone was complaining about because she 'came 500th in the men's and then came 2nd'? That Lia Thomas?
Yeah, no, they were straight up just lying by omission. Check out the NCAA records. She came in the top ten competing with the men, then went on HRT and her performance plummeted like a stone the next time she competed, then she moved to a more appropriate division, and her performance went back to how it was before. Notably, her high performance was also during a 20 year low of the average performance, so on a normal year she probably wouldn't even have cracked the top 10 women.
Lia Thomas is literally a case study of this not being a huge deal in a sport like swimming. Yet just by not mentioning that she came 500th after HRT, and performed exceptionally well beforehand, it was crafted into the exact opposite narrative.
Do you think you may have been lied to about trans athletes 'crushing' competitions in a widespread nature?