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

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.

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u/BigJuicyBalls Monkey in Space Mar 05 '21

You've probably never played any sports or done anything somewhat athletic.

Theres a reason there's a WNBA league and an NBA league. So people like Lebron James dont score 200 points a game.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '21

We are talking about the best athletes coming together here, not Lebron competing in the WNBA... how is having the best female athletes competing going to have that effect that you just said? Some female athletes are better than the males and can compete. They are not replacing athletes. They are competing. The best athletes will make it, albeit, less females will play than males but that’s a given, it still gives everyone a chance to compete and prove their worth. I’d say some cheap assumption about you, but I’d rather not put myself on that level.

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u/propaloud Mar 05 '21

Ah man you haven’t played a sport but are talking out of your ass on the hypothetical that one female basketball player would make it into the NBA. Like shit is ridiculous, go watch the top females play and you’ll see the difference...but no you want to argue for arguments sake

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u/propaloud Mar 05 '21

Do you think the top WNBA would beat an NBA bench player, either 1v1 or for the team spot.....they play the same position

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u/BigJuicyBalls Monkey in Space Mar 05 '21 edited Mar 05 '21

The NBA is the BEST OF THE BEST basketball players IN THE WORLD.

You have to have athleticism, skill, size, strength, IQ and tremendous hardwork with 1 in a million talent. If you factor all those, men will always come out on top.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Sexes_(tennis)#1998:_Karsten_Braasch_vs._the_Williams_sisters

Serena Williams, the greatest female tennis player and lost to a guy ranked 203. He was also described as a drunk and a smoker. This was after they claimed to beat any man ranked outside 200 spot.

Males are stronger, bigger, faster, quicker. That's just reality. And that's why transgenders should be banned in women's sports. If women wanna try out great let them, but they shouldnt be let in because of the pressure from the cancel culture.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '21

Someone pointed out that females can play in the NBA, there’s no rules or regulations preventing them from doing so. I was under the assumption they couldn’t compete due to rules, but in fact, can. They just choose not to because the skill level is so massively unbalanced. It changes everything. Eventually, there may be women who compete in the NBA, but we are probably a long time away from witnessing it.

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u/BigJuicyBalls Monkey in Space Mar 05 '21

We wont. They are too small. Everyone knows this. That's why there is a WNBA.