Transphobes love stupid fake anecdotes about trans women, especially sports.
"I know a guy who knows a guy whose cousin's roommate knows a trans woman who can bend steel bars with her bare hands and murdered all the cis women on her soccer team and then went on to win three world championships all by herself."
Yeah, sure you do.
"The trans woman didn't have to work out or train or anything! It's not fair for cis women to compete with murderous Kryptonian super-beings because of their innate biological advantages!"
Like, my dude, I can barely stand up and walk, okay?
I'm doing good to lift my purse.
You have no fucking idea what you're talking about.
When trans women are allowed to compete as women, they overwhelmingly lose to cis women. That's a fact.
But everybody has an anecdote.
Everybody knows a guy who knows a guy. Fucking jokers.
@gwynnion "they overwhelmingly lose to cis women" can you point me to analysis of this? I'm wondering exactly what this means.
I would expect this to be true in some sense just because outlier cis-female athletes are better than enough cis-males at their sport that they're just likely to be better than the X% of the population who is trans. Like, Li Wenwen is SO good, that she's better than enough cis-men that it's unlikely that any of the handful of trans-women weightlifters are going to be as good as she is, even if trans-women and cis-men have exactly the same distribution of talent.
Or are you saying something else?
