Gnads wrote on Feb 9
th, 2023 at 12:44pm:
Dnarever wrote on Feb 9
th, 2023 at 10:50am:
Gordon wrote on Feb 9
th, 2023 at 9:28am:
I don't know her.
It would seem unlikely that a trans athlete in these conditions would have any advantage. They are required to prove that they have held lower than male level testosterone for over a year prior to any event.
I see this as an area where more needs to be known and done but not a justification to denigrate the Trans community - just an excuse for doing so.
Sport is a different question, The typical Transsexual is not competitive in sport. It is a convenient angle of attack which does need to be addresses better than is currently the case.
You don't have to know her ... that's an irrelevance.
The Trans agenda is denigrating womens sports.
The question you were asked was do you think Bethany Hamilton is transphobic because she has stated her case as to why she will no longer compete in competitions that allows biological males to compete against women.
And no amount of changing testosterone levels will ever make a adult male a woman.
Quote:no amount of changing testosterone levels will ever make a adult male a woman
It does reduce competitive behaviour and reduces muscle and strength to female levels.
Quote:You don't have to know her ... that's an irrelevance.
You asked
'Is Bethany Hamilton transphobic?' Knowing her would clearly assist. Based on the stories it is not possible to answer this. Based on the knowledge we have it is maybe - maybe not - who knows.
Quote:The Trans agenda is denigrating womens sports.
I see no such desire from the trans community. I do see that there seem to be cases of unfairness, I suspect that even the trans community would like to see anomalies related to advantage in sport to be corrected.
Even within woman's sport it is normal for woman with naturally high testosterone levels to have a significant advantage. That can be women who are born more like men. This associates with Woman's sport being typically made up to a higher than the community average percentage of same sex preferring women.
That is women with high testosterone being more like males more competitive and preferring other women for sexual partners.