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  • Again, nothing I wrote is transphobic. You just don’t understand how sports work. The only manner in which sports are segregated is women’s sports. Any woman can play for the NBA if they are good enough. Any woman can play for MLB.

    Women get their own leagues in sports because they wouldn’t be present in professional sports at all if it was all a strict meritocracy.

    This article of running explains a lot of the factors. I chose running specifically because it’s a non impact sport where, presumably, the gender size differences would play less of a role.

    Mens larger hearts let them oxygenate their blood faster, and their blood can hold 11% more oxygen. Recovery from injuries is quicker as well. A lot of these factors are a result of hormones present throughout their lives.

    These are facts. What you make of those facts requires logic.

    Now, reread what I wrote and cite back to me a single reference I made to trans people.

    The post I responded to was stating that there is no reason to split sports by genders. I can tell you that without a doubt, there is a reason to provide women’s sport leagues, and that reason is to prevent their wholesale exclusion from the competitive sport environment.

    Depending on when a person transitions in their life, there could be gigantic physical advantages reaped. I don’t think it’s my role as a man to declare where the line of acceptable advantages is in women’s leagues.








  • LOL, definitely not, but I remember the 90s as well when every stoner wouldn’t shut up about weed bringing anti carcinogenic. Weed kills people beside the user. It’s still hugely safe, but bad decision-making under the influence of weed has probably killed more people than caffeine. You could argue the caffeine didn’t kill them. Their other health condition did. The same way we could argue weed didn’t kill anyone, but the drug trade did.






  • It’s important to remember that they don’t believe this stuff because they are simply stupid, but they have a confirmation bias that many reasonable people would fall victim to.

    When you are successful and have the weird version of modesty where you are uncomfortable taking credit for your own work but somehow believe you are a personal beneficiary of “God’s Plan,” your faith will skyrocket.

    If you really believe in God and believe you are blessed, you’d be an asshole not praise them loudly and publicly.

    I’m an atheist myself, but I don’t think Christians who act this way are being crazy so much as consistent with their beliefs.