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They are working off a strange misogynistic assumption that any man is better than all women could be. Add on the transphobic assumption that a trans woman is actually a man. Voila! QED: Any trans woman is a better athlete than all cis women could be.
The thought process is so distorted.
reminder that 1 in 8 men in a survey thought that they could score a point playing tennis against Serena Williams https://mashable.com/article/serena-williams-poll-yougov-score-a-point
That is… astounding. Painfully cringingly astounding. Is there a word for “feeling embarrassed for someone else’s smugly preening overconfidence”?