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Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas out of Olympics after losing legal battle
  • Stop labeling people anti-trans just because they disagree with you about the mechanics of a zero-sum competition situation. The majority of people here are PRO-TRANS, and ALSO pro-women. We all just want the system that provides the most fairness in a situation where there's no way for it to be completely fair to everyone.

    If there are 10 seats on a team, every spot taken by a person means that a different person doesn't get that spot. So we as a caring society have to decide who CAN get that seat, and also who CAN'T get that seat. It all comes down to whether or not women born with biologically male bodies have a physical advantage over women born with biologically female bodies. At the very minimum, people who went through male puberty have a physical advantage over people who didn't go through male puberty.

  • Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas out of Olympics after losing legal battle
  • The categories are sex segregated, not gender segregated. The names of the competitions are from a time when most people didn't know there was a difference between man/male and woman/female. So when it's called like "men's sprint" the actual meaning is "male's sprint". If you wanted to make the official names of the competitions to be called "male's" and "female's" instead of "men's" and "women's" then I would totally try to help you in that movement

  • Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas out of Olympics after losing legal battle
  • I know I'm gonna catch heat for this, but sex-segregated physical competitions is one of the very few places where trans women shouldn't be treated the same. Women's sports competitions aren't segregated by gender, they're segregated by sex. Trans women are women in gender, but their body isn't a biologically female body. That's the exact definition of transgender - when your body's biological sex doesn't match your sense of gender. So by definition, trans women don't have a biologically female body.

    The whole point of sex-segregated sports is for people with female bodies to be able to have a fair competition, instead of them not even getting a chance to compete at all because if they had to compete against biological males then almost 100% of females wouldn't even make the team. This is the whole reason why sports competitions are segregated by sex.

    TLDR trans women should always be treated as women - except for sex-segregated physical competitions

  • Can reincarnation work while someone's still alive?
  • Are you looking for an actual answer? From Wikipedia:

    In April 2020, Harrelson made a post on Instagram promoting the conspiracy theory that claims a link between 5G networks and COVID-19, which was later deleted.[58] In May 2022, Harrelson said he "doesn't believe in the germ theory" and found the use of face masks as a preventative measure against COVID-19 to be "absurd", adding, "I'm sick of like, you're wearing a mask, and you think it contains your breath—but if it did you'd die, you'd be breathing in your own carbon monoxide [sic]."

  • L.A. County wants to cap rent hikes at 3%. Landlords say that would push them to sell
  • That's bullshit. Nyc has rent stabilized apartments and it's fucking fantastic. Not perfect of course, but really really good. Those apartments are highly sought after. The biggest problem is that there aren't remotely enough of them

  • Tesla CEO Elon Musk could leave if $56 billion pay package not approved, shareholders warned
  • The catch is that Tesla has a bunch of problems that might cause the company to be in serious trouble soon, and if musk leaves before the company starts tanking then we'll have to hear endless bullshit from people about how musk was so great that he single handedly was what kept the company going.

  • Neptune - Alarmingly Bad
  • This would have some amount of effect on the earth, though I'm not knowledgeable enough to say what the effect would be. I could imagine the result being anywhere from "it's measurable with scientific instruments" and up to "all life on earth will die within hours".

    Off the top of my head iirc Neptune prevents a huge amount of large meteors from hitting the earth, so i think for that reason alone it would lead to earth being frequently hit with meteors that each cause nuclear weapon level of destruction.

    EDIT

    Actually Jupiter is the planet that protects us from asteroids, so that specific effect probably wouldn't be in play

  • [meme] I thought a cycling meme would work best here, oddly.
  • Well yes, but also some areas have made walking or biking nearly impossible. There are places with no sidewalks, places where there's a giant road sitting between you and your destination with no way for pedestrians to get across it, etc. So yes, there are people who needlessly drive short distances, but often the problem is that an area was built in a way that makes non-driving travel methods hard, dangerous, or impossible

  • Google Pay is officially dead in the US. Just got the email.
  • No, the standalone google pay APP is just having it's features transitioned into google wallet. Google payment services is totally unchanged.

    Quote:

    Anywhere you normally use Google Pay — from checking out online to tapping and paying in stores — remains the same. If you use your Android phone to shop in stores where Google Pay is accepted, you can continue to tap to pay in stores with the Google Wallet app.

  • Kansas Constitution does not include a right to vote, state Supreme Court majority says
  • If their constitution is anything like the United States Constitution and government, then one of the fundamental principals is that not every right is specifically enumerated in the law, meaning just because a thing isn't specifically listed as being a right doesn't mean it's necessarily not a right. Voting is obviously one of those things.

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