That Trans Thread

[Rev. Rye]

Do the people who sell estrogen and T-blockers have a new formation that doesn’t hobble trans women and render any advantages of going through male puberty moot?

This is something I hadn't thought about before. When a trans woman joins a woman's sporting league, is it expected that she is taking this type of medicine? Surely they don't test for it, do they?

I mean, when a trans woman says she's trans, that means she should be allowed to participate in women's sports. I hadn't heard before that a trans woman would have to prove certain chemical or hormonal levels in order to qualify. 

An individual who still had exactly the same physiology as she did the day before she came out as trans is, assuredly, trans, is she not? Or is there a sliding scale on some kind of hormonal measurement?

If they can test for steroids, there’s no reason they wouldn’t test trans athletes for estrogen and T-blockers. The fact that those drugs do a number on your physical performance is, frankly, a big part of why they’re allowed in women’s sports in the first place. It’s one of relatively few domains where being assigned male at birth can potentially give a woman a material advantage. And if it turns out that something important for transitioning like hormones can actually negate that advantage, that’s great.

Fun fact: do you remember that shitty Daily Wire movie Lady Ballers, where some jackasses decide to claim to be women, wear crappy wigs, and dominate women’s basketball? It was originally going to be a documentary where they try the same thing IRL. That fell apart because it turned out that trans women needed to go on hormones in order to be allowed on any team. And, because the Daily Wire is/was what it is/was, they decided that, instead of giving up A narrative they knew first-hand was bullshit, they retooled it as this Weed Trip: Boner Edition-style comedy.