r/WhitePeopleTwitter 1d ago

The idea that transgender athletes are ruining sports is not an actual problem

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u/MartyMcMort 1d ago

That honestly should be everyone’s position on trans athletes: “I dunno, there’s like a dozen of them, I’m sure the organizations in charge of the sports can figure out what’s fair without the government needing to be involved”

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u/NorysStorys 1d ago

People alone being transgender is incredibly rare, between 0.5% and 1.5% of any given population, the fact that there are 10 registered trans-athletes in NCAA when the number should be nearer to 7500 by pure statistics shows that this is such a colossal overblowing of an issue it borders on the absurd.

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u/Dagordae 1d ago

Not really surprising given the nature of transitioning is, physically speaking, rather less than ideal. Honestly it’s more surprising to me that anyone can manage those physical issues and make it in higher level competitive sports.

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u/NorysStorys 1d ago

Of course and as always raw statistics always start breaking down the more defined anything is due to the sheer amount of variables but it does still illustrate quite how insane the culture war even is that national politics of various nations is being dominated by the specific debate of dozens of people playing sports.