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

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

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              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.

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                    They are fucking relevant, because you said that trans women need to ALWAYS beat cis women for it to be unfair.

                    I’m providing an example where in an even more extreme situation where cis men were involved directly, some cis men could lose and the situation would still be unfair.

                    So your argument that they all had to be better is false. Trans women participating in women’s sports if even one of them is better because of their natural doping is an unfair situation.