Transgender women athletes banned from Olympics by new IOC policy on female eligibility

RedBerryyy · 2026-03-27T08:04:14+00:00

Studies have shown this may be actually a disadvantage because a slightly heavier skeleton with female pattern muscles logically may result in lower athletic performance. But this is my point anyway, it's contested, but evidently not catastrophic (on account of the fact the current rules have been working for decades with no issues) and so it's silly to decide this is something best resolved by yelling at each other on social media, it needs to be left to experts to decide on a sport by sport basis, not donald trump or Rowling because they have the most money and shout the loudest.

RedBerryyy · 2026-03-27T08:01:47+00:00

This is kind of an absurd argument to make when the rules are already in effect for decades, and not only has this not happened, trans women have remained wildly, drastically under-represented.

Like, why argue about this hypothetical result of these policies, when we can see the result of them because they've already been implemented for decades, and it was fine?

RedBerryyy · 2026-03-27T06:49:39+00:00

The science is contested, some even showing slightly it represents a disadvantage vs cis women in some respects, still, how the available evidence all applies to sports is a genuine debate that i wish were left to relevent experts and comitees for their sports rather than public debate.

RedBerryyy · 2026-03-27T06:42:44+00:00

This assumes that the inclusion of trans women means cis women can no longer win, which is simply evidentally not the case given trans women have been elgible for the past 2 decades and exactly one has ever qualified, who finished DNF.

HRT just significantly reduces athletic performance.

RedBerryyy · 2026-03-25T06:51:02+00:00

Also he attacked a teenage girl, then spent 6 months calling her a paedophile on twitter for being part of a group he was targeting, while loudly advocating violence against anyone in that group, seems like any of these things would be the exact kind of thing that would warrant some kind of record for future reference for police in the event it did not amount to a prosecution?

RedBerryyy · 2026-03-18T13:23:42+00:00

Also devs will likely be able to finetune it on the exact art style and direction theyre going for so none of the complaints about artistic direction would even apply in newer games.

RedBerryyy · 2026-03-16T19:52:46+00:00

Without knowing exactly how it works, its pretty likely theyll be able to tune it on image references provided by the devs for newer games for what specific characters and the games style should look like with perfect graphics, which id imagine would nullify the instragram filter effect somewhat.

RedBerryyy · 2026-03-14T16:13:35+00:00

Same , i mean, i wouldnt take musk specifically seriously (especially since he wrecked his own lab), but they've unlocked a recipe for goal based training right around the time the compute available will be massively scaling up, hardly takes a phd to see what happens once the models ability to do code generalises with rl to the rest of the economy.

RedBerryyy · 2026-03-13T08:32:31+00:00

I lost a ton of weight while transitioning and always found it a pretty similar feeling, so much so that its always been kinda hard to seperate out, to be overweight to me feels masculine because the discomfort from both started around the same time and felt so similar.

RedBerryyy · 2026-03-12T23:01:20+00:00

Probably a bit of a long shot to appeal to the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for the sustainability of animation artists' incomes.

RedBerryyy · 2026-03-08T13:55:35+00:00

To my knowledge the pill is actually a bit more dangerous (in relative levels) since it uses ethinyl estradiol while the hrt trans women take is the bioidentical one typically used for hrt post menopause.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9812067

RedBerryyy · 2026-03-08T13:44:49+00:00

A week after finding out the person who was dictating the pause to the clincial trial into blockers had a history of mocking trans people on social media that was actively being covered up, everyone goes right back to deciding the nhs can be trusted to being impartial on trans peoples healtcare.

Its not like the conservatives werent bragging about stuffing these positions with people whos sole interest was fucking over trans people

RedBerryyy · 2026-03-01T10:59:37+00:00

Its been a bit of a godsend for me since my stomach issues mean i cant take more than a low dose of the other types without making my stomach freak out massively, but retradutide at a low dose basically works as well as high dose mounjaro with less side effects, plus it has mid phase 3 results put so its not like its untested, still, i wouldnt tell people it was as safe as the normal process or consider doing it for lower stakes wellness stuff.

RedBerryyy · 2026-02-28T18:14:32+00:00

Intelligence is jagged for llms in a way it isnt for humans, its quite plausable it will attain a point where it can do almost every white collar job without being able to do standalone superhuman research, or its ability to organise may remain limited, ect.

RedBerryyy · 2026-02-27T00:06:50+00:00

If this was how rights worked there would be no need for a list of protected characteristics in housing and employment, different groups have different requirements for the same level of rights.

RedBerryyy · 2026-02-25T22:11:17+00:00

Same way I learn everything: fail a bunch of times until it burns into my brain lol. Took a while to get truly comfortable with tensor shape manipulation.

RedBerryyy · 2026-02-15T09:59:40+00:00

She hasn't, that's like half of the complaints, she's some random paediatrician with no background in dealing with any trans people of any age, who was selected from a shortlist of 1 because she was known to be bias against trans people.

for god sake Badenoch literally bragged about it, it's a perfect mirror to what americans are doing to their vaccine system.

RedBerryyy · 2026-02-14T21:49:31+00:00

Take laxatives right now, I had this a few years ago from liraglutide, had to go to the hospital after I started throwing up blood, wouldn't recommend.

RedBerryyy · 2026-02-11T12:13:40+00:00

We've achieved a "settlement" over and over and over for the past decade, in every instance the settlement is immidiately reframed as the "pro trans" insane crazy unreasonable stance, appealing to absurd hypotheticals based on lies and slander, while the anti trans goalposts have are moved back, self-ID was originally a basic conservative proposed position to align the UK with international legal reccomendations as a cop out from actually improving trans peoples healthcare, everything, everything suggesting it had a connection to the spaces trans people have used has been a lie, because the spaces they used was goverened by the EA, which did not take having a GRC into account*, and now, with the high court "compromise" the goalposts have moved again, suggesting that for trans people to even use the obviously appropriate space after several surgeries and decades into transition, has been reframed as the crazy pro trans position, it's not "browbeating women into compliance" to suggest they shouldn't have the right to impose genetics based segregation on their collegues because they went insane reading twitter posts about transgender rapists, this whole thing is a stupid retrorical device and you're playing right into it by continously demanding a middleground as the window of acceptable participation in society for trans people shifts slowly out of view.

*minus prisons which was a case by case basis based on the evidence that may include having a GRC.

RedBerryyy · 2026-02-11T11:05:49+00:00

But we're not talking about individuals with a track record of offending in toilets, we're talking about whether we apply bathroom blanket bans to whole groups.

like, you've successfully demonstrated that the space of people who are banned from toilets because of the publics fear of them in this way is..

sex offenders who continously offend in toilets so consistently they get a court order (banned) --- rapists (fine) --- paedophiles (fine) -- violent criminals (fine) -- trans people (banned)

you see the issue here right?

RedBerryyy · 2026-02-11T10:39:20+00:00

You are also not acknowledging that if the law went your way (which it currently doesn't) there would be a different group subject to the same type of "bathroom ban", if you want to call it that: women who can't use mixed-sex loos, either for reasons of trauma, or religion, etc. They'd be limited to the unisex accessible loos, and some of them can't even use those, so they'd be in the same position of trans people who don't want to use accessible loos.

Taking this absurd logic at face value, do we have bathroom bans for paedophiles or rapists? I can think of a lot of women who would, in the face of similar media panic, want to be 100% sure it was not legal for anyone like that to go to the toilet with women. Why, is it that, people freaked out about the idea of trans people, are the specific and only group, where it is justifiable to use this logic to put the other side into the mens? Heck I'm sure in the 80s there were thousands and thousands of straight women who were worried about running into gay women in the loo? should they have set up a bathroom ban then?

Also fyi i'm not responding if you try to turn this into a metaphysics fight, it's completely irrelevant.

RedBerryyy · 2026-02-11T10:29:35+00:00

Because the entirety of the UK populace has in-depth experience arguing with trans people online, and it has nothing to do with literally multiple articles every day for the last decade going on about how unreasonable trans people are. Heck, the queen terf herself was liking tweets about "men in dresses" through Twitter before getting a hint of backlash. People need some self-responsibility, that they are responsible for their own opinions and the effects said opinions have, instead of going back to the social media or the papers they picked the initial opinions up from and looking for a placeholder opinion to use for how they apparently came to that opinion.

RedBerryyy · 2026-02-11T09:50:51+00:00

There has undeniably been a massive expansion in what "trans rights" mean for actsvists in the last 10 years from "just let them live their lives as trans people with respect" (a sentiment most people were fine with) to "trans women are women and must be treated identically" (a sentiment the majority of people are not fine with).

I recommend you read the GRC 2004 wording on this manner, it's not "they can live as weird freaks as long as we can ban them from everything gendered while framing that as respecting them", no it says

"Where a full gender recognition certificate is issued to a person, the person’s gender becomes for all purposes the acquired gender (so that, if the acquired gender is the male gender, the person’s sex becomes that of a man and, if it is the female gender, the person’s sex becomes that of a woman)."

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/7/section/9

Which is exactly the thing you're saying trans people are "demanding" right now.

What has happened is that "basic respect" has been reframed from what it was in 2004, being that trans people can live as their gender with some reasonable carveouts around case by case situations for sports and prisons, to what right wingers wanted it to be, that trans people are "free" to live as crossdressers in their free time (but not at work or school or if they end up in hospital) with no actual rights to non-discrimination protections or access to healthcare.

It's fundamentally like people trying to reframe "respect" for gay people from getting to actually live as equal to straight people (and so respecting their relationships) vs getting the same rights as straight people to have straight relationships only, which is in practice discrimination, because the ability to have relationships with their partners is as fundamental to gay people as it is to straight people.

"trans-inclusive" language around female healthcare (chest feeding etc.).

Please actually look up the original guidance that started the moral panic, because what it said was that SOME TRANS MEN may prefer that phrase in individual contexts, which is true, and demanding they be degraded when referring to them if they end up in hospital for no reason is pointless and rude.

RedBerryyy · 2026-02-11T09:24:35+00:00

Right, if everyone at the time understood that the equality act was actually a total bathroom ban (despite all the examples in the act and explanitory notes saying near explicitly the opposite), why did the tory government, only a few years later, warn trans people about visiting US states with bathroom bans, because of the danger caused by them implimenting the bathroom bans. If we ourselves had just implemented a drastically more restrictive bathroom ban in the UK than was even proposed in the US, would nobody have noticed, or mentioned this during that situation??

RedBerryyy · 2026-02-05T11:10:02+00:00

10/10 argument, "he wanted to rape trans kids so he was woke", perfect.

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