They’re now claiming that trans women “stole” over 2000 gold medals from cis women. But if you look closer, that number should be much… higher?

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CWALAC doesn’t say those 2,293 gold medals were won in any specific time period, just that they were won at some point. But entries on the dataset go back as far as 1927 (doing a lovely job of emphasizing something we always say: trans people have always been here). If anything, with such a huge dataset, if trans people were dominating sports, you’d expect significantly more wins from trans people.

Even the notion of what they are considering a sport where trans women would have an advantage seems undefined. While there are major sports like swimming, soccer, and hockey, other sports included where trans people are supposedly dominating are bowling, disc golf, Irish dance, and competitive oyster shucking. This is all separate from their non-athletic section, which includes prom queens, best actress nominations, and Jeopardy! performances.

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Our obsession with sports has always kind of flummoxed me. Don't get me wrong, I love sports. Baseball, hockey, and basketball are in my Midwestern blood. But freaking out over the competitive sanctity of high school basketball or college swimming is just... like, dude. Maybe these things mean too much if that much is on the line. It is only a game, y u have to be mad?

Of course it's not about the sports, it was never about the sports, its about finding a scapegoat that doesn't have the political power to fight back. Innocent people who just want to exist. But ah, no, we need penis detectors and hormone checks and we need to invade the privacy of children to... save the children from... other... children

I know I'm not exactly steelmanning the transphobes here but do you think it ever occurs to any of them how fucking stupid they sound

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