• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    3 months ago

    What open class? There is no open class at the Olympics. So no it isn’t really that simple.

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      3 months ago

      Really? They prohibit women from competing alongside men?? No thats not the case, women only sports is to prevent males with higher biological advantage from taking over the women’s competition.

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        3 months ago

        Males are not taking over any women’s competition anywhere in the world. I know that you think that trans women are men, but even by that standard this idea is a total farce - there is one transgender athlete out of like a thousand Olympians at this year’s Olympics. There have been no major trans competitors in the Olympics despite being allowed since 2004. There is no dominance of trans athletes in sports at any level in any country on this planet. This is a phantom that you have invented in your head, it is totally illusory and does not exist - and because it does not exist, the only thing trying to fight this phantom can possibly accomplish is hurting women by excluding them from their own competitions.

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        3 months ago

        Is this an “Air Bud Rule” thing?

        Also, we have no idea if Khelif is biologically male. We have one corrupt Russian official saying “well maybe.”

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          3 months ago

          We actually do have a pretty good indicator that she’s biologically female - the fact that her home country, where she still lives, would’ve jailed her if they figured out she was a trans woman before they sent her to the Olympics. Algeria doesn’t allow gender transitioning in any way, and they can and do imprison people who live as a gender other than the one they were born as.

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            3 months ago

            You clearly can’t convince people. Because they just move on to “even if she is biologically female…”