"yes i turned my life upside down, opened myself up to discrimination, and took ...

lllI · 2024-03-06T10:31:29 1709721089

Doesn't matter what the original motivation is. Women's sports are not a venue for making males feel better about themselves, they're to celebrate female excellence and female competition.

theultdev · 2024-03-05T06:47:12 1709621232

Sweet summer child. See Laurel Hubbard...

But yes, it's an incredibly petty thing to do, hard to imagine, similar to creating fake women speakers.

And no, hormone therapy does not "normalize" you with women.

Your bone structure and many other factors are at play.

Hormone therapy doesn't magically reverse these things.

You can literally look at the guy and see the difference between the women he's taking advantage of.

ambichook · 2024-03-06T01:29:27 1709688567

a trans woman who had been on HRT for 5 years managed to qualify for and come second in an event, and later won some others, yes that is most certainly evidence that she had an unfair advantage /s

she was also in the ballpark with the other competitors, not the sort of far and away difference that you make it out to be.

lllI · 2024-03-06T10:36:55 1709721415

Not true, look at this graph comparing Hubbard's lifts at the World Masters to male and female competitors: https://b.thumbs.redditmedia.com/JrzQoA6fWKtYdm8auCMj6RKil0Y...

He sits squarely within the male range and is a huge outlier from the women competitors.