STOCKTON, CA—Cackling as the steps of the dastardly plan crystallized in her mind, local trans teen Brie Chandler told reporters Tuesday that she had hatched a nefarious plot to undergo years of medical treatments and counseling to win at swimming. “It’s oh, so simple: several years of sweet-talking medical…
    • KrankyKong@lemmy.worldEnglish
      74·
      6 months ago

      I’m not attacking her or trivializing her athletic abilities. But pretending that she doesn’t have an unfair advantage over her competition isn’t a good solution to the problem. Sports are separated by gender for good reason. Lia transitioned later in life after she went through male puberty.

      Women’s sports are important and must be protected.

      • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        6 months ago

        From the article:

        She beat her closest competitor by more than a second, but never finished better than fifth in her two remaining contests.

        So she won one competition and got middle of the pack on the rest.

        How is this a problem?

          • Sarmyth@lemmy.worldEnglish
            22·
            6 months ago

            I don’t think people care in friendly matches, but people forget how many young girls’ lives are impacted through scholarships or grants given through high school sports. When these competitions can change the course of your life, perceived fairness becomes much more important, not just for the athletes but their families as well.

            My experience has been that even suggesting that someone might not be a hateful monster for questioning trans involvement in competitive sports, gets you banned from communities, and labeled a transphobe on Lemmy.

              • Sarmyth@lemmy.worldEnglish
                14·
                6 months ago

                Maybe they are. You accuse me of making the scenario up, but you literally just did the same thing. You can’t possibly know they aren’t. If I were a college that wanted to show how inclusive we were, I would absolutely pick a trans athlete for a scholarship, and since there isn’t an infinite amount of money and scholarships available each year, it comes at the cost of someone else.

                Since they don’t tell us who they don’t grant things to, there’s no particular person who could ever claim victimhood, but it did cost someone who wouldn’t have otherwise lost the spot. And not surprisingly, it breeds resentment towards trans athletes, which hurts the movement a whole. It’s shitty all around.