cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37235684

Obviously reporting transphobic comments to a transphobic mod isn’t going to result in any action, so I’m wondering if the admins are going to do anything about it?

(if someone needs an image description, please ask)

  • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
    252·
    4 days ago

    I don’t know enough about sports, or the skeletomuscular and endocrine differences between someone AMAB and someone AFAB, to comment on the topic.

    I’d much prefer to defend our trans community, but there’s way too much misinformation for me to get the valid and credible information needed to do so. Can someone please share some links so people like me can be educated enough to speak out in support?

    • ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      13·
      2 days ago

      I’d much prefer to defend our trans community, but…

      Jfc…

      Says the person who has clearly never even tried listening to trans people, but is more than happy to believe every piece of misinformation they hear about us then demand we labour for them to disprove it to their satisfaction, over the people they claim they wold actually “prefer” to defend, but aren’t…

      • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 days ago

        Judgmental much?

        I’ve defended trans people in conversation about sports from a place of empathy. I imagine how I’d feel if some bureaucrats told me I had to play on a girls team. How out of place I’d feel at practice, in the locker room, on the bus to competitions, etc.

        The problem I have is when right-wingers come at me with skeletomuscular advantage and detailed sports statistics, I’m in over my head. I won’t even broach the conversation any more, because I felt my lack of insight just helped them feel like they proved their point.

        I could remain quiet, but I have a moral obligation to stand up for the oppressed. You don’t have to help inform me, but you don’t have to be a dick about it either.

    • tree_frog@lemm.eeEnglish
      232·
      4 days ago

      Read *Who’s Afraid of Gender? *

      The jest of it is that sometimes cis women have more testosterone than cis men. Even in top athletes.

      And trans women on hrt have less than either.

      I started transitioning over the summer, I’ve lost 15 lb of muscle mass.

      Three decades of testosterone dominance made me tall and lanky. But no taller or more lanky than cis women I know. About the only major difference, as far as sports are concerned, would be my wider shoulders. And still needing to wear a cup I guess.

        • tree_frog@lemm.eeEnglish
          10·
          4 days ago

          Oh thanks :)

          Always fun to discover I’ve been misspelling a word for decades lol

      • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
        6·
        4 days ago

        Perfect. I’ll definitely check that out. Thank you!

        If anyone else is as strapped as I am, I just confirmed they have the E-book for loan on my local library website. Borrowing from the library may help authors less than purchase, but it’s still better than piracy.