"worthless sack of shit terrified she will be shown up by trans supersoldiers"
Moooom I need a new xbox controller this one is trraaaaannnsss
Shut the fuck up
New rule: if your "sport" can't manage skill divisions without worrying about genitals it's gone. Your sport is fired. No more pool until you can figure out how to let everyone play. This goes for all the other sports too.
They argue that the involvement of [trans women] in ladies' competitions is deeply unfair because they have a clear physical edge over [cis women] competitors.
These advantages include possessing greater upper body strength enabling them to make a more powerful initial 'break' of the balls
I made the actual data-laughing face irl I'm so brainbroken
Pool is an expensive dexterity tabletop game, not a sport lol
Transphobia in sports cannot be meaningfully separated from white supremacy in sports. They use the same racist excuses against trans people, and the same transphobic excuses against black people (see: all the black athletes that get banned for not being feminine (read: white) enough). And the transphobes even have their own transgender pseudoscience they use as justification, much like their race science of last century.
The biological males all spread their enormous beards across the table at the start of every game. They use them to jostle the balls around, scoring points when it isn't even their turn. They wrap their long moustaches around her pool cue and yank her off balance whenever she takes a shot. They put their testicles on the table, painted to look like pool balls. Every single time.
It speaks to a deeper problem really of women facing barriers to sports.
Pub sports are no different, especially since the domain of drunk old men is one of the least appealing to younger women (creeps and weirdos galore).
So you get a lesser pool of women's players. Therefore they're less likely to win. Therefore they get put in their own bracket. Therefore they get paid less in that bracket. Therefore the pay of their top players is a pittance. Therefore they can't fully devote their life toward it. Therefore they're less likely to win. Repeat cycle.
Anyway, if you've grown up as a man, you've probably been allowed to pursue these male dominated sports pretty unhindered. Sure, you might've been an egg the whole time, but outwardly the men weren't hostile to you, or creepy, or doubting. You've got to a level where you're playing against elite players.
Then you come out as trans. The experience you accumulated as a man will serve you well. It is experience afforded far less easily to women.
Technically, women could just 'get good' and miraculously ignore those barriers. If that was so simple, there'd be far more female players and winners. But it isn't that simple, and in some sense trans players can hold advantages over cisgender women.
I'm not calling for segregation, but I do have some sympathy for the women's player. The great shame of it all is that her views have been moulded by society to blame trans people for this, rather than blaming men and sporting associations.
This whole explanation varies sport to sport, of course.
EDIT: Take this all with a grain of salt. The data is simply not out there. I speak mostly from anecdote as someone who has played and been involved in thousands of hours of sport. As I've said, I do not think there should be any trans segregation in precision sports. Here's an interesting interview from a trans snooker champion: https://metro.co.uk/2022/09/04/jamie-hunter-if-i-didnt-transition-i-would-be-dead-it-had-nothing-to-do-with-snooker-17295875/ They transitioned around the age of 22, and won a championship at 25.
Skill issue
Good, quit the sport forever, crawl in a hole, and never interact with anyone ever again. Hopefully the fate of every TERF everywhere
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The only "unfair advantage" transfemmes have is an unfair advantage in the "being cool as fuck" department.
bold stance from someone who practiced really hard at a game that's 99% played in pubs
Trans women have too many bones to play pool or something smh
Pool is the last sport to be concerned about the hypothetical of trans women making it hard for cis-women. It makes more sense for a sport like track where, yes, cis men do have a biological advantage. The average person thinks a trans woman is able to just jump into a track race without having taken any hormones and dominate, making the propaganda as effective as it's been. They don't bother to look into the steps that need to be taken before they can compete.
Pool, on the other hand, really doesn't require any of that and should be one of those sports that allows for a more gender-neutral competition.
pool is as much of a sport as cornhole is which means not at all.
TIL pool is a gendered sport
Oh and that's a bad miss.
Adding another thing to the list of stuff that trans people are just innately better at 💅
Lots of pool leagues where I live. Not surprised whatsoever by a reactionary participating in them. This person would be seen as an SJW for giving a shit by half the people I know who play pool regularly.
Daily Mail donning a tweed suit and bow tie and singing "You Got Trouble", I see.
quote tweets on this post were deeply depressing. terf island must go
On line with the female Chess league banning Transwomen I see.
https://www.chess.com/news/view/fide-publishes-controversial-new-transgender-policy
Sometimes I hate humans.
Here's hoping for the dart guys (and gals and enbies)
Weird stuff about stances like this and the chess ban is that it's just going "why yes, women are inherently inferior" and trying to pretend it's feminism.
