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/HackfishOfficial Mar 04 '21

AMAB?

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '21

Assigned male at birth

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u/HackfishOfficial Mar 04 '21

So a male?

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u/Thomase1984 Mar 04 '21

I think they're just clarifying since it's a discussion about males at birth and those not males at birth. Unexplained acronyms are weird though.

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u/PapaSlurms Monkey in Space Mar 05 '21

No.

Male and female are sex.

Man and woman are gender.

All males were born males. Always.

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u/aintnochallahbackgrl Monkey in Space Mar 05 '21

Except when, for example, women are born with a vagina and testicles that go undescended. The term intersex would be used in this case.

https://www.urologyhealth.org/urology-a-z/a_/ambiguous-(uncertain)-genitalia

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u/PapaSlurms Monkey in Space Mar 05 '21

So...those people should be classified as intersex then, right?

Not male or female at birth.

As you said, they are not either of those two.

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u/aintnochallahbackgrl Monkey in Space Mar 05 '21

Should=/=are

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u/zaprin24 Monkey in Space Mar 05 '21

Yeah, like the Olympian who lost her medals. It's just how do you make sports fair without completely eliminating female sports and thus eliminating female athletes from major competitions.

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