Trans people & sports

[Jesster]

No one chooses to be trans.

You choose to have surgery and choose to take pills to wipe out testosterone and choose to participate in sports.  So you might not choose to want to live as a woman, but everything else is choice especially if you are participating in a combat sport. If you are trans, I'd imagine the smallest sarcrifice you'd have to make is not participating in a sport where you can kick the crap out of people with a huge disadvantage.

Here was my choice: transition or suicide.

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Yeah, a lot of people seem to think it's a topic we shouldn't talk about because there are other topics, but there are like 8 gazillion threads in this forum for discussing music, people's feelings, what they're eating, their favorite TV shows, why they're rage quitting, etc. For some reason, not every thread is dedicated to some tragedy flavor of the week. That could be because people are not obligated to only discuss the big issues. I'm actually a little surprised that there is this much "there's starving children in Africa" going on in this thread.

From the perspective of a transgender person, it gets awfully tiresome hearing people argue all the time about whether you should have certain rights or not. I still understand how it may look to you since you don't feel the same pressure. Feel free to discuss, but don't expect many transgender people to feel too overjoyed about it.