Personally I think not having karma limits is nice currently! I understand why they were used but grinding karma as a lurker on reddit was frustrating.

  • PlasmaK@lemmy.ml
    5·
    1 year ago

    I think that after HRT the difference is not that big. Trans athletes may even be at the disadvantage since there are some cis woman that have higher than average amount of testosterone.

    In the long shot I think it would be for the best to abolish gender based separation altogether and replace it with something more like weight categories.

    • oldindianmonk@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Consider two 5’6" 65kg athletes, one man and one woman, are you saying that the man doesn’t have an advantage?

      I used to believe the same until I saw the recent Women’s Premier League in Cricket. They had to reduce the size of field and the weight of ball. Even with that, the fastest bowl in the tournament was 130kmph while that speed is considered a “slower ball” in men’s cricket.

      Now some of these female cricketers earm more than any Pakistani male cricketers. Which is fair, bigger market, bigger payout. But female cricketers don’t stand a chance against the male cricketers

      • PlasmaK@lemmy.ml
        0·
        1 year ago

        Here is a surprise for you: HRT actually does things to your body. I don’t think this should have been that hard to find on your own, but I can’t judge your circumstances.

        • Landrin201@lemmy.ml
          1·
          1 year ago

          Transphobes always make the same tired arguments about “biological differences between men and women” and then scream and run away when you bring up actual science, because they don’t care about the science. They care about being bigots, and using science to make their bigotry look legitimate.

    • Knoll0114@lemmy.world
      0·
      1 year ago

      There are things that don’t completely change with HRT (particularly when started after puberty.) Height, bone density, lung capacity, hand/foot/limb size etc. do not vary significantly after HRT and depending on the sport can make a huge difference (eg. Hand and foot size or lung capacity in swimming even where the two swimmers are the same height.)