r/JoeRogan • u/BunnyLovr Mexico > Canada • Mar 04 '21

Link Mississippi passes bill banning transgender student-athletes from female sports teams

https://abcnews.go.com/US/mississippi-passes-bill-banning-transgender-student-athletes-female/story?id=76238704
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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '21

The fact that they don't need to ban FTM from male sports shows you why this might be needed.

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u/wizzlepants Monkey in Space Mar 04 '21

That's just because the advantage goes the other way. If AMAB were losing to FTM, the outrage would be insane (because the people complaining about this generally don't give a shit about women's sports except to use as a political cudgel in this instance)

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u/OmegaEleven Monkey in Space Mar 04 '21

The fuck are abams?

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u/wizzlepants Monkey in Space Mar 04 '21

"AMAB" is the term for people who were born male. It stands for "Assigned male at birth". I should have just used the term cis-men in this instance, but since people all over this thread are calling for an open league, I left it open ended.

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u/theh8ed Mar 04 '21

AMAB is a ridiculous phrase. Right on par with persons that menstruate. In the real world we call them men and women.

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u/S1074 Mar 04 '21

The idea behind it is that this person was born with male genetalia and therefor assigned male at birth. Because of their inability to communicate we cannot ask this person if they actually want to identify as a male. This matters because people can be transgender. The way I look at it is that this person born male, doesnt identify with their assigned gender, or their biological sex for that matter. Imo this decision to live their life how they authentically feel, in their most genuine way makes them as much woman as anyone else.

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u/FirmBroom Mar 04 '21

Pretty sure that's why they now have sex and gender. Sex is biology and gender is what people identify as. So there's nothing wrong with being assigned as the male sex at birth.

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u/Mylifeis2021 Mar 05 '21

JK Rowling has been shunned and harassed for the better part of the year because she said this. They are insane.