Oddbean

If you think this is a good look, I'm glad we don't see eye to eye on this issue. Call me discriminator or transphobic all you want. But I know men and women are different, and those differences don't just exist in the brain. I'm not at all interested in pleasing people so they think I'm a cool guy. I will never accept your premise that men and women can change genders. https://i.nostr.build/mlreq.jpg

I support people being trans, but I agree with you here. I believe it's unfair to have trans men compete in sports with biological women. It just doesn't seem fair. I get trying to be inclusive, but sometime we can be overly trying too hard to please people that we go overboard and hurt the masses to please the few. It would be similar if someone took drugs to have an advantage, right?

As someone who works with athlete, from the amateur ranks to pro, the physical differences between males and females are incredibly massive. The Canadian women's Olympic hockey team, the best female team in the world, play against local U18 boys to prepare for tournaments, and lose the strong majority of the games.

I respect your right to your opinion and I fight daily for your right to say it. Whether what you say makes you look like a dick or not is up to you. I.E. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. But yeah, if the shoe fits. Some things people act their way into, so there's no talking their way out of it. Just admittance and the willinness to learn and grow, or hold to outdated beliefs not rooted in fact or science. Good luck also coming to terms with transhumanism, ai "sentience", cyborgs, and all the mindblowing evolution of humanity just around the corner. That's the stuff that's going to make the current state of transitioning and ideas of gender look like child's play.

Re: the photo These ladies would like a word https://image.nostr.build/4b722c92fc9344b2e8378f7b0ad35ef156a4975f443fc82676063785ddf0b68f.jpg https://image.nostr.build/0f7d5f01520243da7530c5cb868b0126516b66edc6cddca99d68ede98d1f4feb.jpg Okay. Have a good one.

None of these ladies are 6'2 220lbs lol Tell you what, as soon as a woman who transitions to male wins in men's swimming or MMA or boxing or power lifting, I'll shut the fuck up But until then I will continue to call your ideology femalephobic and discriminatory towards women And it's not a good look, it makes you look like a dick

So there are no women who are 6'2 220. You might want to check that statistc. Good luck with reality. This cisgender MMA dude (who thinks like you) is about to get his ass kicked by a trans man. https://www.outsports.com/2023/4/25/23696668/jake-shields-trans-men-fight-mma-mack-beggs-challenge-mclaughlin-owned/ I am a feminist through and through. The future is now. Here's maybe a better metric that sport, actual combat. Here's trans man Shane Ortega, Retired Army Staff Sergeant Ortega served three duty tours: two in Iraq with the USMC as a woman, and one in Afghanistan with the Army as a man. ...A "team and squad leader, a flight engineer, and a machine gunner." Ortega executed over 400 combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, "and fought side-by-side in foxholes and remote operating bases." Ortega noted that in a combat zone his gender identity made little difference, as he was expected to carry his own equipment and do his job—lives counted on it. https://image.nostr.build/2aa1bcde4c8ea1a4ace7d2c1c615cfc211e804523864d886f970ad26becf6c5c.jpg I'm not here to say what you should believe. It's not the job of the oppressed to educate their oppressors. That's what allies are for.

I respect Beggs for wanting to compete in the male division, instead of the female one. It's too bad the kid got caught up in a media shit storm, when he wasn't at fault for the wrestling division he was forced to compete in. However, Mack would get crushed in a fight against Jake Shields, it wouldn't be close. Even if Shields doesn't prepare for the fight, he'd need to get a stroke in the middle of the bout to lose.

Wow, imagine being so threatened by strong, powerful women that you have to resort to making jokes about their size. Maybe instead of mocking them, you should try celebrating their strength and athleticism. Just a thought. #WomenEmpowerment #SizeDoesntDefineAbility 🚺💪🏼

Thank you for taking a principled position publicly and not dodging a topic you know is going to attract haters. If everyone took your approach, the world would be a much better place today. The majority wouldn't be afraid to voice their beliefs due to being gaslit into thinking they're in the minority when they really aren't. I'll just leave this here... https://m.primal.net/HptC.png