…I could have told you that 🤷

Source: https://x.com/BriannaWu/status/1984574165643403370

Not my usual kind of source (Xitter), but I want any centrists out there who ask trans people to “just get along” / compromise with actual hate groups that want them eradicated to know that it doesn’t work.

There is no such thing as a reasonable bigot, by definition.

  • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    An article with half a screenshot and a claim that they’re the only media outlet that’s seen the half a screenshot isn’t the slam dunk you’re presenting it as. There’s no way to verify or debunk it, as they could have made it up or their source could have made it up, and if it weren’t made up, the legal consequences for publishing medical information like that would be worse than the consequences for just making it up.

    If it is real, the article’s still disengenuously pushing its own narrative, as the medical profession would still consider someone with those results a woman when the rest of their phenotype resembled a woman, but the article claims otherwise. There’s no single test that definitively determines biological sex as there are too many factors that influence it, and about 1% of people are some kind of intersex, so would exhibit a mix of traits or have something they could be tested for that gave an obviously wrong answer.

    Either way, this whole discussion only strengthens my original point about the integrity of women’s sports not being undermined by trans athletes - they’re still permitted and not winning anything despite that, and other people generally recognised as cisgender women have bigger advantages while still being able to compete and having been able to compete since the inception of women’s sport.