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Bear Enthusiast posted:If it's about fairness it's not I think the real issue is left-handed people in baseball. Ban those sick filth. That touches on a relevant point: Sports, particularly at the higher levels, plain aren't fair. There are dozens if not hundreds of external and internal factors that will give one competitor an advantage over another. Wealth is a big obvious one, for a start. A wealthy athlete will have more time to devote to their training, with better facilities and trainers, and that's often reflected in the backgrounds of many top athletes. Physiological factors naturally also play into it, of course. Height, width, hypermobility, overall proportions, hormone levels, and so on can all make a major difference depending on your discipline. Michael Phelps is a common example in this case, as he's basically a walking set of ideal genetic factors for swimming fast. The thing is that when you look at top athletes in the Olympics or whatever, they aren't just there because they trained the hardest and devoted themselves the most. They're also there because they have the right background to even have a shot at it in the first place. For every gold medalist, there are thousands of people who never ever had a chance to get anywhere near the top because they weren't born in the right conditions. Society has just sort of accepted this degree of unfairness as "natural", but it's an arbitrary line, as is the separation by gender. To ban trans athletes is just saying "All this unfairness is fine, but that (likely fairly insignificant and possibly nonexistent) unfairness isn't!", which makes it very clear that this whole thing is entirely about attacking trans people, and not about fairness. As if it weren't already.
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