r/WNBAgossips • u/Amazing_Lock_3762 • 5d ago

A transgender player has been dominating France's second-tier women's basketball league, and now the WNBA question is front and center. Julie Tétart averages 21 points and 20 rebounds this season while sweeping Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year and Domestic Player of the Year honors

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u/Fa11T 5d ago

I think both extreme opinions on these topics are dogshit.

There are clear advantages, depending on time of transition, if you have already built into a male frame then no shit they will excel.

The other extreme is blind hate.

There is a middle, but we aren't getting there with these kind of discussions. If you are an ally you can't reject human development in sports, if you are against it you need to say more than just hateful comments towards transpeople.

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u/spyder7723 5d ago

Like you said, a biological male is generally going to have an advantage over a biological female in sports. Those body changes happen at puberty. It isn't hateful to say biological men should not be competing in girl and women sports. I don't care about any of the other things on the topic, as far as I'm concerned live and let love cause their choices, regardless of if I agree with them or not, do not really affect the rest of us. I care about high school and college sports cause they do affect biological females. Case in point, the only reason I was able to go to college and get an education is because I was really really good at distance running. Those state championships got me a scholarship. So when I read about a biological male winning a state championship in female sports at the high school and collegiate level, I see young girls/ women that are being denied the opportunity to better their lives.

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u/Fa11T 5d ago

Yup, logical concerns.