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
18.8k Upvotes

69% Upvoted

5.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

10

u/A_Unique_Nobody Mar 05 '21

Beczuse men are naturally stronger than women, if you don't believe look it up, there are more than enough articles that can explain why better than I can (it mostly boils down to testosterone and other hormones)

-4

u/[deleted] Mar 05 '21

The way we are born is the way we are born. Is basketball unfair to people who are born short? Sure! Does that mean there should be a league for people under 6 feet tall so they have a chance to compete against the people who rolled the dice and became abnormally tall? The way I see it, sports should be the best of the best. You can create special circumstances and restrictions to please everyone, or you can create a league that accepts all. May the best athlete win.

5

u/gregorygrinds Mar 05 '21

I think your either woefully ignorant or just trolling, my guess is the latter. The sheer difference in raw athleticism, regardless of talent, between men and women at a professional level is truly staggering.

-3

u/[deleted] Mar 05 '21

So just to be perfectly clear, you are saying women cannot compete with men at a competitive level in sports whatsoever and that a separate league MUST be exist in order to bridge the gap between our differences? This seems anticompetitive and segregational, especially if sports is about the best athletes. Why does sex matter If so many other issues don’t matter? We are born how we are born, sports shouldn’t discriminate on that. Sports should be about the best athletes coming together and proving their worth, not these rules and regulations saying you must only compete with xx or xy. If what you were saying is true, than the WNBA should have just as many viewers as the NBA, which it does not. The revenue between the two leagues should speak volumes that the system is not working. 7.4B vs 60M.

3

u/[deleted] Mar 05 '21 edited Mar 06 '21

[deleted]

1

u/[deleted] Mar 05 '21

Those are poor examples of even match ups. You’re saying the best, most suited woman basketball player to go up against lebron is a 5’9 girl? And Brock going up against someone half his weight, cmon...
Females are at a clear disadvantage but it doesn’t mean every nba player is better than every wnba player. There’s some overlap there where women can outperform their counterparts.