The largest college sports governing body in the country made the change following President Trump’s executive order banning trans girls from girls’ school sports.

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    3 days ago

    You said it is easily proven that they always have an advantage and you are basing it on one single high school wrestler.

    That is not even close to being easily proven.

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      3 days ago

      I did not use the word always in any of my comments on this thread.

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        3 days ago

        If it isn’t always, then there isn’t an unfair advantage any more than being excessively tall is an unfair advantage in basketball.

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          3 days ago

          That’s not how fairness works.

          If one man shows up to every woman’s weight lifting competition and wins every time and at the same time three other men show up and place last every time, the situation is still unfair to women because someone still had an unfair advantage.

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              3 days ago

              I’m not calling trans women men, I’m saying that if a cis man were to show up.

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                3 days ago

                Okay, but we aren’t talking about men playing women’s sports, we are talking about women playing women’s sports.

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                  And I was giving you an example where cis men could both win AND lose to cis women, and it would still be unfair.

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                    Cis men are not relevant to this discussion, so the only reason to bring men up is if you think trans women are men.