"If you consider yourself a woman and you want to play sports or vice versa, you should be able to play," Staley said.
    • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
      25·
      8 months ago

      Tennis has allowed transgender women in professional women competitions for decades now. By your theory all the major competitions should have been swept by trans women. Can you try to guess how many big tournaments were won by trans women since then? (Hint: it’s a very round single digit number).

      And it’s not like it’s a sport where women have a fair shot in a match with men with a similar amount of training - in 1998 Serena Williams and Venus Williams both got completely obliterated by Karsten Braasch who was the 203rd in the men’s ranking back then.

      • ImADifferentBirdEnglish
        19·
        8 months ago

        Fuck transphobia, and fuck anyone who screams censorship at even the mildest content moderation.

      • jeffw@lemmy.worldOPM
        16·
        8 months ago

        His comment was removed for being transphobic, as it should be. If your idea of not having censorship is being free to harass people, you can go to 4Chan

    • Buffalox@lemmy.world
      28·
      8 months ago

      The interviewer for one.
      But your question seems to be a disingenuous attempt to remove the context of “in competitions”. To hide the constant and open discrimination against trans people.