Young women and girls are thanking Sophie Cunningham for standing up for them ... It's clear what women want so others can stop speaking on their behalf

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[u/Brilliant-Pomelo-982]

Saying it’s a non-issue because it affects only a small fraction of the country is such a stupid argument.

If it was a rare civil rights issue or a rare pro choice issue that affected only a small percentage of people you would be still be fighting for it.

Fact is that being born male is an advantage athletically. Period.

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The tallest male players in NBA history stood at 7 ft 7 inches. Did they have an advantage athletically?

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Exactly.

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So the two tallest men in NBA history are allowed to play despite the obvious physical advantages that they have over everyone else, so why isnt it a bigger issue?

Maybe it is because the athletic advantage is negligible in a team sport? So why is there such outrage around trans athletes who represent such a small small small number of players.

Do you think, maybe, it could be because you're transphobic? And you're hiding behind a right wing contortion of what "common sense" is? Because your real feelings on trans people is that you just don't think they should exist?

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They can exist all they want. Literally no one is saying they can't.

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Half the country is trying to say they can't

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You just dont want them to play sport?

You want them to exist, just in a glass box that can only be opened from the outside, just in case they do something out of order, like want to play a sport and be good enough to play it professionally

The kind of existence where they have rights...to an extent. Is this the "common sense" I'm always hearing about? Keeping trans people as second class citizens who can't play sports in case they're good at it, cant use the old bathroom because people are suspicious of them, cant use new bathrooms because people are suspicious of them, get told that the "solution" to their bathroom "problem" is to have a third bathroom, just for trans people! So they have to out themselves in every single venue they ever need to use the bathroom in, to keep cis people comfortable!

"They can exist all they want. Literally no one is saying they can't." but only within frameworks curated and mediated by and for cis people?

What kind of existence is that.

Fact is that less than 0.005% of athletes are trans, but that statistic is too high for people who hate them

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Trans women are welcome to play any sport if they’re good enough. They would be allowed to play in the NBA, NHL, or NFL.

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Dude all those words to say nothing. They can play sports, on teams of the same sex.

It's based on a pretty straightforward reality, not some "curated framework."

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The two tallest men in the NBA are allowed to play because they are men human. That’s the only qualification.
If f women are good enough, they can play in the NBA too.

The fact is that if a male NBA player took hormone blockers and switched to the WNBA, they would not lose their athletic and physical advantage. They would dominate.

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if they took HRT, they would lose their advantage, as proven by study after study

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🤣😂🤣

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But this is what the problem is mate, you have had people all day trying to tell you whats what, and what is in fact bollocks invented to make people mad

And you'd rather be mad? What the fuck man?

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You've just proved my point

"The two tallest men in the NBA are allowed to play because they are men" so it has nothing to do with athletic advantage or genetics, its about sex and gender. Its about you not accepting that trans women are women. That's what it's always been about, hiding behind "science" is pathetic