Olympic boxer Lin Yu-ting cleared to compete after sex eligibility review

Probably the point. F*** thos wave of hate and f*** Regan, Nixon, and trump for making everyone think it was alright.

That was me a year ago. Then my sister's oldest came out to me as trans, and I had to reconcile my (at the time) view of Transfolk as weird sickos mutilating themselves far beyond the most outlandish tats or body modification enthusiasts with this sweet kid (late 20s, so not a KID kid, but whatever) who was still apologizing for deleting my ps2 savegame however many years ago ps2 was. This wonderful person who confided this terrifying truth to the gun loving, hard-drinking (retired), bearded biker uncle who I'm sure had made disparaging remarks about Trans folks to or around Her. This scared but determined person, defiantly demanding to be seen and valued as who She was, not as the ill-fitting mold She'd been living in. I got to know Her more in the following months than in the decades before. She was an amazing lady, and opened my ignorant eyes to the truth that transfolk are just freakin' people. Just people trying g to live in a world that hates them and wants to erase their existance. She sadly took the nine-mil night-night shortly after bottom surgery, but I am glad to have finally gotten to know her before she was gone.

My best friend, and her girlfriend, just moved all the way across the country to be safe(r) from discrimination and hate. We live in a very red state, and she was lucky to find a physician to start her transition. I already miss her terribly, but I know it's more important for her to feel safe, taken care of, and loved in her new very, very blue state.

The minority of minorities born in a house where no one is like them.

It is both parties though, one is just more upfront and violent about it. I have received an a huge amount of transphobia from liberals who think trans people are the reason Trump won.

You’d only hide your comment history if you were a bot or a troll. Honestly this site would be 500% better if I could auto-block every account history hidden “user”

Oddly enough it has a lot of mixed competition. I only found that out because one of the people who did the "mediocre athlete loses to a trans woman and makes it everyone else's problem" grift was a fencer who had beaten a cis man in a mixed fencing match not long before she lost to a trans woman.

It's not an open class in the Olympics.

Wild how you chose to type this out completely wrong and ignorant as if you have any idea at all, champ!

No, many sports are simply not "open" at all and are very well defined in separating men and women. The reasons, logical or not, based on factual realities of sexes or not doesn't matter, they forbid women from taking part in men's competitions. Kathy Ledecky cannot register to compete against men in a World Acquatics competition under current registration rules even if she wanted to.

Explain why Phelps, who has genetic factors to help him excel at swimming wasn’t disqualified for those. Other swimmers who don’t have genetics like that can’t compete. 

You dont see how women like the Williams sisters, who are absolutely peak performers at tennis, would never have even been known if we had not given them a chance to shine? You dont see you issue in women never being allowed to play competitive basketball, football or rugby because they would never be picked for any team, just so that we don't have to make an arbitrary line somewhere? It is a difficult question what is and is not acceptable when it comes to these decision, and I do not pretend to know the answer. But abandoning female spaces in competitive sport all together is definitely not the answer.

It's not against the rules for a woman to box in the male division is it?

If it led to their hormone levels changing it would be picked up by the same drug tests they give cis athletes. Even if trans athletes weren't kept under even more of a microscope than cis athletes it would also take a lot longer to have a meaningful effect than just taking a performance-enhancing drug, that's why the regulations have always required trans athletes to spend a set amount of time with their testosterone below the limit to qualify (the lowest I remember hearing of is 9 months but it's usually a year or two). Even if it was enough to matter it's not nearly as invasive to make sure a trans athlete takes a pill every day or an injection every week as the kind of shit they're putting everyone through to keep J.K Rowling and Donald Trump from yelling at them on the internet. And that's assuming the trans athlete still has functioning testicles. It obviously kept trans women from having an unfair advantage over cis women given the actual results on the field. Frankly, too well. Do you know how many women competed in the Olympics between 2004 and 2024? If trans women had no difference in performance to cis women, then just going off the statistics you'd expect to see something like 100 trans women compete and a few of them to win medals. IIRC only two trans women even qualified, one of those competed, and she came dead last. That's not an argument for banning trans women. If you care about fairness it's an argument for making it easier for trans women to compete. Even if trans women steamrolled their opponents the way people somehow still think they do the answer would be to figure out handicaps to make it fair (and apply that to everyone, not just women), but like I said, this is just sucking up to people like JK Rowling and Donald Trump (fun fact, do you know how many prominent transphobes were pals with Jeffrey Epstein? Even more fun, he seems to have invited a bunch of them to one of his conferences just before they all started spouting off about trans people, for some reason).