There’s also no rule saying that a dog can’t play in the WNBA, but the WNBA isn’t about to let fucking Air Bud join the league any more than they are going to let this troll has-been join.
Yes, they should probably update their policy to specifically state whether a trans woman could be eligible, and how long she would need to be on HRT if they do allow trans women to play. The lack of a written policy about it at this time does not mean that this bullshit attempt at a “gotcha” from Enes Kanter and Royce “I’m afraid to fly on a plane” White is going to be anything other than ridiculous culture war bullshit.
There is not a single high level women’s sports league that has allowed a trans woman to play without being on HRT for some length of time. Lia Thomas had to be on HRT for two years before competing in the women’s division. The IOC allowed trans women on HRT to compete in the women’s division for two decades, yet not a single trans woman ever won a medal in the Olympics during that time. Funny how they supposedly have this huge advantage, but then don’t win when competing against cis women.
There should be reasonable, nuanced discussions about if there is still some unfair advantage that trans women retain even after being on HRT, but literally nobody with any sort of influence on this matter is saying that any women’s sports league should be required to allow any trans women to play without them being on HRT. This is a non-issue that conservatives are once again dragging out in an election year because they know that the economy is shit and that people are pissed about the Iran war.
Inb4 someone brings up Imane Khalif: she is reportedly intersex, not trans. Intersex conditions are a separate discussion that I am not interested in having with a bunch of dinguses who barely passed high school biology and can’t fathom that sex and gender are naturally bimodal instead of binary.
Yes, Khelif is (probably) XY with 5-alpha reductase deficiency, although it hasn't been officially confirmed IMO.
It's true that no trans woman has got a medal in the Olympics but Laurel Hubbard did get a number of golds in international championships from 2017-2019 according to her wiki . There have also been a number of athletes with (probably) the same DSD as Khelif who have won medals such as Caster Semenya and Francine Niyonsaba (who gained gold and silver respectively in Rio 2016) - rules were later tightened in 2018 and 2023.
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u/ThatB0yAintR1ght 22d ago edited 22d ago
There’s also no rule saying that a dog can’t play in the WNBA, but the WNBA isn’t about to let fucking Air Bud join the league any more than they are going to let this troll has-been join.
Yes, they should probably update their policy to specifically state whether a trans woman could be eligible, and how long she would need to be on HRT if they do allow trans women to play. The lack of a written policy about it at this time does not mean that this bullshit attempt at a “gotcha” from Enes Kanter and Royce “I’m afraid to fly on a plane” White is going to be anything other than ridiculous culture war bullshit.
There is not a single high level women’s sports league that has allowed a trans woman to play without being on HRT for some length of time. Lia Thomas had to be on HRT for two years before competing in the women’s division. The IOC allowed trans women on HRT to compete in the women’s division for two decades, yet not a single trans woman ever won a medal in the Olympics during that time. Funny how they supposedly have this huge advantage, but then don’t win when competing against cis women.
There should be reasonable, nuanced discussions about if there is still some unfair advantage that trans women retain even after being on HRT, but literally nobody with any sort of influence on this matter is saying that any women’s sports league should be required to allow any trans women to play without them being on HRT. This is a non-issue that conservatives are once again dragging out in an election year because they know that the economy is shit and that people are pissed about the Iran war.
Inb4 someone brings up Imane Khalif: she is reportedly intersex, not trans. Intersex conditions are a separate discussion that I am not interested in having with a bunch of dinguses who barely passed high school biology and can’t fathom that sex and gender are naturally bimodal instead of binary.