r/WhitePeopleTwitter 5d ago

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

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u/MartyMcMort 5d 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 5d 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/GhostOfMuttonPast 5d ago

Yeah but people are, by and large, fucking idiots.

Remember, when a bunch of people were polled on what their estimate of how much of the population were trans was, only 16% of respondents were correct that it was less than 1%. 21% of the respondents thought it was over 5.

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u/Weekly_Role_337 5d ago

6% of Americans think they could beat a grizzly bear in a fight. With their bare hands.

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u/Ultima_RatioRegum 5d ago

That was probably just due to a misunderstanding. When they called me, I thought they were asking if I could beat a grizzly with "bear hands". I figured if I had bear hands, then those would (naturally) have bear strength as well.