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I saw some transphobe asking how many medals trans women might win is too many, and I just want to say: There is no too many. It's okay for trans women to win in sports when they compete. It's okay if trans women have an advantage in a sport they compete in just as it's okay for
cis women to have an advantage in a sport they compete in.
The arguments are always "trans women have an ~unfair advantage~" and a trans woman winning one or two competitions in years of competing is somehow proof of that, while losing means absolutely nothing.
The arguments are always "trans women have an ~unfair advantage~" and a trans woman winning one or two competitions in years of competing is somehow proof of that, while losing means absolutely nothing.
The reality is that if you compete in sports, winning is a goal to aim for whether cis or trans, and the idea that trans women should only compete if they always lose is transmisogynist. The idea that winning is somehow stealing something from "women" is transmisogynist.
Someone replied and deleted the reply about how height requirements in say the NBA, and I want to point out there ar more cis women who are 6'0" or taller in the world than there are trans women in their entirety
Height and weight classes already exist, and won't actually bar trans women from competing within their class assuming such standards are applied fairly and without discrimination
Per the UN declaration of human rights, participation in sports is a human right. Barring trans women from competition with other women is a human rights violation.
btw I'm not going to single out who replied and deleted, but I think it was important to reply to the point made in the tweet
I want to add that a very important fact about women's sports vs. men's sports is that women's sports are severely underfunded in comparison, and if I were an athlete I would focus way more on *that* than on a handful of trans athletes who don't really have an unfair advantage
