RE: Trans people & sports
March 30, 2017 at 12:37 pm
(This post was last modified: March 30, 2017 at 12:41 pm by henryp.)
(March 30, 2017 at 12:12 pm)Jesster Wrote:(March 30, 2017 at 11:58 am)wallym Wrote: Shaquille O'neal was 7'1" 300 pounds, and athletic. The tallest wnba player (from 2012) was 6'8" 207.
Unless the sex change makes his skeleton shrink, there will be a decided advantage.
Holy fuck, people love throwing arguments at me when I'm exhausted. Fine.
Shaquille O'neal isn't trans.
If we're going by size and skeletal build, should we toss out cisgender women who have this same advantage over other women?
That's the point. There are no cisgender women who have this same advantage. Any NBA Center who went through the sex change process would immediately be by far the best player in WNBA history. Most center's in the wnba are 6'5. There are 100's, probably 1000's of men, who if they transitioned would be the greatest female basketball player of all time.
If there are no physical advantages, then an average NBA center who transitions should be an average wnba center.
(margo dydek was 7'2 220, and could barely move. Maybe that's what'd happen if nba players transistioned? They'd lose all their athleticism, and plod around like a wounded giraffe. That might be true, but doesn't seem right.)
