To expand on this. I think saying there are no differences between trans women and cis women in sports is a losing argument. Transphobes will just point any of the obvious differences in existing studies and try to make you attempt to prove the negative of no differences existing.
A better argument might be that in most cases any difference are irrelevant.
Such as sports where the womens categories exist to promote them as a marginalized group not for differences between cis men and cis women. Womens chess and W Series racing being two examples. Trans women are a marginalized group in a marginalized group they obviously should be included.
Sports where the importance of any difference isn't enough to support the argument of separating out trans women. I view this as any sport without any monetary or prestige standing on a national or international stage. Basically any sport that isn't a collegiate or elite level. Any difference just doesn't matter enough for middle or high school, recreation or any petry league. Just let them play.
The last group of high level competition is a bit harder to crack because this is where data just doesn't exist. If in the short term we have to split women's sports into a cis, trans and combined categories or put an astrix next to trans athletes so be it. Long term I think something akin to weight classes everyone will be categorized into should be created. These will probably be very sport specific and we need to gather data. The only way to do that is to let trans athletes compete.
I'm wonder how much this would actually reduce response times. Panic button in a room full of teenagers will lead to a ton of false alarms. Police departments will pobably still need to be called by someone before they roll the entire department towards a school.
Yes and any government trying to stop people from transitioning should be opposed at every step.
But there are transitions beyond just medically or even socially. The transition of the mind, of how you view yourself, can't be stopped or taken away. And no matter how long it takes for someone to realize or start that transition, they are doing it at the exact right time for themselves.
I think this article is overstating the report's findings. From the executive summary of the report:
The research findings in the biomedical area are inconclusive. Studies which make conclusions on pre- and post-hormone replacement therapy (HRT) advantage held by trans women athletes have used either cis men or sedentary trans women as proxies for elite trans women athletes. These group references are not only inappropriate for the context but produce conclusions that cannot be applied to elite trans women athletes. Further, there is little scientific understanding about the attributes or properties of HRT, namely testosterone suppression and estrogen supplementation, on the physiology and athletic ability of trans women athletes. This ignores the potential for estrogen supplementation to reduce Lean Body Mass (LBM), and for testosterone suppression to produce holistic health disadvantages.
Which in my reading basically says all the current data is invalid for elite level athletes and shouldn't be used for policy making. That's not quite as powerful as the conclusion as saying there are no differences.
I hate to say more research is needed since it's an argument made by people who just want to exclude trans athletes until it can be definitely proven there are no advantages, but I don't feel like I can't come to a conclusion from this.
My gut feeling is that there is probably a very complex relationship between an individual historic hormones and their performance in any given sport. And that performance is probably very dependent on the sport in question as well, e.g. any potential difference between trans women and cis women will present differently in long distance running vs weight lifting.
Was wondering if there was a canon source after reading this and found this article and the answer is:
::: spoiler spoiler Inconsistent, probably effectively timeless :::
Finding the docs for the API end points is a pain in the ass. Best I found is this but it seems to be version 1 of the API.
Looking at the communities/list end point I the request can have the following arguments.
{ op: "ListCommunities", data: { sort: String, page: Option<i64>, limit: Option<i64>, auth: Option<String> } }
Looks like there are multiple pages you probably only got page 1.
Try:
curl https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/api/v3/community/list?page=2
Good links. There are more nonmeme communities that are in a better position to answer questions or offer more personalized recommendations that can be linked to as well.
Such as:
I'm sure there are more out there, a lot of community formation is happening right now. I specifically don't know the tranasc communities But they should be added too.
Framing noncompliance as pathology is a long-standing strategy for enforcing the status quo,” Walker says. “The noncompliant can then be robbed of freedom, abused or interfered with in all manner of ways, in the name of ‘treatment.’
This seems to be were the fight will be in the future. Transphobes will try to strip agency away from anyone who is trans in order to 'protect' them from their own decision.
Sorry if I seemed argumentative. I was trying to state that it wasn't just your opinion that they don't own user data but it is a fact they don't own user data.
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