An IOC-funded study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine earlier this month suggests transgender athletes could be at a physical disadvantage.
IOC funded, but they were happy enough to throw us under the bus with their last trans inclusion policy, so I don't see this making any difference. They're not interested in science or fairness, they're interested in not rocking the boat
a) no shit there's numerous health related reasons women often don't like taking hormonal birth control, and testosterone isn't exactly a magic health potion either.
b) I really feel like this is how I specifically learned how to escape quicksand from multiple popular/kids media sources as a child but have never actually practically run into it in adulthood.
Quite refreshing that this article was published by Forbes. Even tho I think more studies need to be made, I would argue that it's public perception that needs changing. Public perception is not necessarily influenced by science, if that was the case we would be living in different societies worldwide. I think public perception is more influenced by the existing narratives, and we have a saying on them. Maybe among other things, we might need to start asking different/new questions?
Yeah, and calling them transphobes as if that's the only motivation anyone has to be worried about this stuff.
I'm running an experiment where I just ruthlessly block every single user demonstrating that kind of behaviour. Hopefully one day I'll have a really slow feed consisting of only the handful of people left that don't act like a total jerks despite being anonymous.