RE: Trans people & sports
April 19, 2017 at 11:09 pm
(This post was last modified: April 19, 2017 at 11:12 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(April 19, 2017 at 10:54 pm)paulpablo Wrote: I'm not bitching about her winning a fight but you were talking about her just winning really well here and there and that's wrong even if you take into account her amateur fights which according to you she won them all.
The records are kept by league and promoter agreements. That's why they don't always agree. We could find more fights if we went looking - she's fought more than 10 tens. Did you know who she was before she really fucked the other girl up, though? Did people wonder about her trans advantage before she outed herself? Where did it go when she lost? Why is she not good enough for the UFC, with her trans advantage? Is "The Trans Advantage™_ actually not a demonstrable advantage to being trans at all, just the unfortunate situation of having been a trans who won something?
What purpose, exactly, in the trans advantage question...does pointing to her winning serve whether she won a single fight, or a hundred fights? Anybody else, we'd be talking about her skill, wouldn't we? There wouldn't be any silent implication to what a person perceives as her abnormal success. Would her success demonstrate a trans advantage..or an individual advantage?
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