The cruelty and mental illness of obsessive transphobia

Good on her she’s an avowed Christian too.

 

Unfortunately, our very own Chandler Parsons stepped in this on X and is taking a beating.

 

To be fair to him he suffered a traumatic brain injury in his auto accident…

 

In response to Chandler Parson's absurd hypothetical, maybe if Zach Edey was voluntarily castrated and was on female hormones for a couple of years before competing. By the way the transgender athlete in this picture actually wasn't that successful competing against genetic women.

 

Was Lia Thomas castrated when she won an NCAA women’s title? And to Parson’s point. Zach Edy on hormones would still score 100 points every night against women. But let’s pretend that’s fair because of virtue signaling.

 

Chandler’s brain is fine. He had a really bad concussion along with other severe physical injuries. But we don’t like his opinion so this gator great must have something wrong with his brain.

 

The right has nothing but culture wars to offer so they highlight this nonexistent problem. Their focus on it is nothing more than cruelty for cruelty's sake which is what they love.

Transgenders cause no problems in this world. However, their performance in sports is an issue that needs to be figured out. It's a very, very, very minuscule issue, though.

 

Its pretty useless to use people like this as an example of anything. Edy is a freak among men too, and scores easily on them. There have been a number of trans players in D1 women's basketball and no one has heard of them, because they are unremarkable and havent played for major programs. That's the norm. But everyone always wants to argue on the margins and absurdities like "what if Lebron took hormones."

 

The trans person in that photo also looks about 20 yrs older than the rest.

 

The question was from one of Clay Travis’s guys, it wasn’t a real question, it was an attempt at a gotcha answer that failed.
Nothing more.
Chandler’s response was making the obvious point that men have genetic advantages that people seem to purposely overlook in the name of “fairness”, whatever sized sample set you want to take, it’s there. The top 1 percent of men who are the participants in most sports have an advantage over the top 1 percent of women, the average man has an advantage over an average woman, and the bottom 10 percent males have an advantage over the bottom 10 percent of women. If you were to choose the top 100 players in almost any sport, it would be just about exclusively men. The boys under 17 soccer team beat the women US national team (the one that won the World Cup) something like 7-0 in a scrimmage. It’s a profound difference that goes well beyond hormones. Depending on the sport, height, arm length, leg length, shoulder width, hand size, stride length etc all matter. Heck men are less likely to suffer an ACL injury because they have narrower hips and it puts less force on the joint, they can take more chances on moves that stress the knee. Hormones don’t change any of that.
So the logical long term impact is that women would be disadvantaged over time. It’s not even really a debatable point. If people want to ask us to accept that outcome in the name of inclusivity, fairness, or whatever else they call it, then have an honest debate about it. But don’t pretend like it’s fair to women just because we don’t want to offend trans folks. Appeasing the 1 percent to disadvantage 50 percent isn’t inclusive, it’s silly.
Jmo.

 

The ironic thing is that you are doing exactly what they are. Trying to create a hyperbolic argument to make your point. And that includes questioning a great gator’s sanity for making a legitimate point that you don’t like.
Further, if we are going to suss through what the laws should be for this long term (and all sides are), it’s only logical to discuss the expected outcome. Over time, if it becomes more acceptable it will become more common. And that’s beyond where it’s already impacted in swimming, cycling, weight lifting etc.
Again. If we can’t do that, then it only proves the point I am making.

 

You forgot sense of humor. Guys have a far superior sense of humor, too. I mean . . . George Carlin vs. Paula Poundstone? Forget about it.

 

Why would Zach Edey want to live life as a woman (including taking hormones, going through painful surgeries, etc.) and play women's basketball? Why would any man want to do that? Would you want to do that? I wouldn't. It's such an illogical gripe.

Yup. Not only is Dawn Staley a HOF coach, she was a HOF player. She won three Olympic gold medals as a player, won the Naismith Player of the Year twice in college, and was one of the best WNBA players of her generation.

 

By the way, I guess the NAIA a is transphobic and cruel too. They banned transgenders from competing in women’s sports today. And by a 20-0 vote, so they must REALLY hate transgenders.

NAIA all but bans transgender athletes from women's sports. NCAA vows to ensure 'fair competition'