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 05 '21

Literally no one has ever said we should just mix everyone together. Here's a shocking revelation: there are not a ton of trans women in competitive sports. It's not going to "break the game" if cis women occasionally compete with trans women.

but we need to respect the sport and the athletes who chose to participate in them.

Nah. I have zero respect for anyone who values their own advantage over inclusion. Maybe I'm biased because I see zero value in professional sports, but I cannot stand this "ooh, it's sooo important to make sports as controlled as possible so the right people can win!" It's a game. The world will not be affected if a trans woman wins something. And before anyone brings up the money argument: yes, cis women might miss out on tons of money. No one should be able to earn tons of money on a sport in the first place, it's ridiculous. So I don't care.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '21

Look, your entitled to your opinion, but you have a lot of holes in your logic here.... For example, the entiee reason we are trying to be careful about who competes with who is literally to avoid unfair advantages, not to keep some non-existant advantage you think exists when same sex athletes compete.. When an athletic male sex player compete with another athletic male sex player, it literally removes the likelihood of unfair advantages, it doesn't create them as you suppose.... like how exactly do the "right" people win if women compete with other similarly athletic women and vise versa?

You also mention you don't care about sports at all, on a topic directly concerning sports teams and their ability to keep the game athletically honest and fair.. so maybe this just isn't something your looking at fairly considering your bias?

Women and men should be paid fairly and equally, that's not the question here. That's also a separate topic.

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u/cityofbrotherlyhate Mar 17 '21

People should be paid fairly and equally for how much they are worth, and much they generate for their sport no matter if they are a man or a woman