Fantastic response.
She handled that reporter trying to derail like a pro. Good on her!
Who is saying they shouldn’t be able to play sports?
The interviewer for one.
But your question seems to be a disingenuous attempt to remove the context of “in competitions”. To hide the constant and open discrimination against trans people.Why are you saying my question is a "disingenuous attempt to remove the context of in competitions” when the article we’re talking about removed that context?
It seems the article is trying to lie to people by telling them that trans people can’t compete in sports, when in reality it depends on who is hosting the competition.
Also, where does the interviewer say trans people cannot participate in sports? I don’t see that.
Seems to me that that level of “pretending” to be uninformed can only be disingenuous.
If you were actually serious the answer would be “lots of people” , every time everywhere.Seems to me that that level of “pretending” to be uninformed can only be disingenuous.
The person in the article is being disingenuous by framing it as “sports” instead of “competitions.” That’s why I asked, who is saying trans people can’t compete in sports? The answer is nobody significant. There are people who say they can’t compete in certain competitions, though. That’s not the same as them saying they can’t compete in sports.
Also, where does the interviewer say trans people cannot participate in sports?
You can just copy-paste the quote so we know exactly what you’re talking about.
You’re being incredibly pedantic. The context of the interview is they are talking to an NCAA Women’s Basketball coach. Deductive reasoning could tell you they’re likely talking about NCAA sports, and that her answer would be related to the competitions she is a part of. This is controversial because many people do not want trans women to play in the NCAA women’s leagues.
I hope that helps clear it up for you.
Okay, so the interviewer didn’t actually say trans people can’t compete in sports.
You were just being disingenuous.
I’m not talking about the specific words the reporter used, that’s the pedantry I was talking about. The reporter was asking her if trans women should be allowed to participate, and she said yes, which is a controversial statement. Since you apparently didn’t read the article, here’s the actual quote from the article where the coach clarified exactly what her point was. Not sure how that’s disingenuous.
Zaksheske pressed further: “Do you think transgender women should be able to participate?” to which Staley responded affirmatively, “In college? That’s [the] question you want to ask, so I’ll give you that. Yes. Yes.”
Hopefully that helps clear it up for you?
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The person didn’t even read the article and then goes on to make empty pedantic arguments in the comments…
Poor FrostyTheDoo trying to have an actual discussion with a wall in the comments above.
Thank you for your recognition of my plight. I don’t know why I do these things to myself
Gotta try to change people’s minds or nothing will change! I try to keep my convincing people to irl conversations generally though.
It’s hard to change someone’s mind when it’s clear there are other problems like actually reading, reading comprehension, willingness to change, etc.
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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.
Fuck off with this shit
Fuck off with this shit.
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.”
Fuck transphobia, and fuck anyone who screams censorship at even the mildest content moderation.
This isn’t mild content moderation.
It’s censorship to serve an agenda.
Our rules are clear. We remove all content that is reported if it breaks our rules. That means I’ve removed some comments by you, as well as ones against you. Just because you would rather we kept things you agree with up, that doesn’t mean we are performing “censorship to serve an agenda”
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
He wasn’t harassing anyone.
I don’t think you know what that word really means.
