"If you consider yourself a woman and you want to play sports or vice versa, you should be able to play," Staley said.
    • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
      264·
      6 months ago

      Tennis has allowed transgender women in professional women competitions for decades now. By your theory all the major competitions should have been swept by trans women. Can you try to guess how many big tournaments were won by trans women since then? (Hint: it’s a very round single digit number).

      And it’s not like it’s a sport where women have a fair shot in a match with men with a similar amount of training - in 1998 Serena Williams and Venus Williams both got completely obliterated by Karsten Braasch who was the 203rd in the men’s ranking back then.

    • eardon@lemmy.ca
      931·
      6 months ago

      Yay censorship!

      I wish lemmy had a feature to allow users to see censored posts without having to sift through the modlogs.

      Yeah. His comment was literally removed for saying “If you have dudes, it is easier to win against girls.”

      • jeffw@lemmy.worldOPM
        166·
        6 months ago

        His comment was removed for being transphobic, as it should be. If your idea of not having censorship is being free to harass people, you can go to 4Chan

        • eardon@lemmy.ca
          212·
          6 months ago

          He wasn’t harassing anyone.

          I don’t think you know what that word really means.