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I don't think she cares what the actual policy is. The point is, she gets to make noise about the right's well-trodden favorite topic. What's actually going on is of no concern.
100% agree, the hate is the point not the policy. It is a virtue signal to her deplorable people to say see I hate them just right now give me money.
This rhetoric has and will continue to get people hurt and killed.
That's pretty much been her whole MO since it became apparent she was in real danger of losing her seat. Spout some antisemitic conspiracy theory buzzwords, clutch her pearls over trans people existing, and hope she can leverage the resulting public sentiment into an easier win elsewhere or a job as some political bobble head on a media network.
I mean, it's working for her so far. What else is she qualified to make six figures at, let alone while not having to behave professionally or do any work?
If she believed in hell, I think she'd have some reservations, but as it is I think she's probably pleased as punch about the result.
Of all the gigantic fish that urgently need to be fried, why the actual fuck do we put so much energy into legislating who can or can't play a fucking game??
It's boxing. Boxing.
Our planet is on fire. The Nazis are back. Most of us are wage slaves. Women are going to prison over their physiology. Multiple nations are currently at risk of being wiped off the map... and the folks with the power to contribute a shred of progress toward fixing any of those are wasting their time worrying about whether or not some fucker can participate in a game based on the dangly bits in their pants.
...not that Boebert would actually make the right decision on any of the actually important issues. Maybe I shouldn't complain about that dipshit fixating on sports. But still, fuck!
That's the point. All this culture war bullshit is there to distract from climate change, nazis and all the wage slavery (and regular slavery) going on in the world today.
Our planet is on fire. The Nazis are back. Most of us are wage slaves. Women are going to prison over their physiology. Multiple nations are currently at risk of being wiped off the map...
Conservatives care about all of those actually relevant things, but they're trying to make them even worse.
Of course that wouldn't be very popular, so instead they just scream about what's in people's pants and their voters eat it up
Raging over things she doesn't understand is literally all she is able to do.
There are just so many things Lauren doesn't understand.
A high school dropout that needed several tries to obtain their GED
She finally got it only a couple of years before she went to congress.
And people elected this woman.
This is an honest question and not intended to be inflammatory.
If a man goes through puberty, then undergoes gender reassignment surgery and is able to prove that their hormone levels are within the allowed ranges for four years, will their physique be comparable to that of a person who was assigned female at birth? Do they still have physical advantages gained through male puberty?
they're gonna have physical strength similar to someone with their physique. hrt noticeably reduces muscle mass and many cis women (especially pro athletes) have higher testosterone levels than hrt levels aim for
They're also going to have a better lung capacity, more stable trunk, and in relation to height men have longer arms and legs. Men also have larger bone areas at muscle attachment sites.
There's currently no way of removing all the variables that exist in order to equalize everything. In the case of boxing, you'll always hear about "reach" or arm length/wingspan. Boxers with a longer reach usually have an advantage since they can land blows out of range of their opponents. Since a born male will have a longer wingspan than a born female, that is one boxing specific thing that any Trans boxer will have over their opponent. That and lung capacity.
The medical science on it says that two years of hormone therapy are enough to lose any sort of competitive advantage in trans athletes.
Four years is overkill, and is part of why this policy is considered one of the strictest in professional sports.
The argument that being trans gives you a competitive advantage always uses Lea Thomas as an example and always omits the fact that ciswomen swam faster than her.
The whole thing is bullshit.
Not a doctor or a trans woman, but from what I understand, you lose the physical advantages of self-produced testosterone over time.
Additionally, it's not as simple as "hormone levels." Some AFAB women have higher than normal levels of testosterone, and some AMAB men have higher than normal levels of estrogen (and/or just lower testosterone levels). There will always be athletes who have biological advantages, whether that's a bigger heart, better lungs, longer/shorter legs, better eyes, stronger bones, etc.
We draw these boxes around perceived genders as if that's a guarantee of fairness, but it's not some panacea that effectively separates the able from the unable, just like gender is more than your genes.
Well, nobody has ever accused her of being smart…so this makes a lot of sense.
Yeah, man, If there was some issue that Boebert clearly understood, that would be the huge news story.
Actually, that sounds like a good story for The Onion. "Lauren Boebert criticizes bill for legitimate reasons that she completely understands."
She doesn’t need to understand it. As long as she makes enough noise- she’ll get the coward’s vote she needs.
Be charitable and try to look at this from conservatives view point:
So obviously they need to have details on every persons genitals. It's clearly the most important next step.
What makes it even better is they hate women's sports. They have always made fun of it. None of them watch it. They don't give a shit. They only care about the trans aspect of it. Not whether or not it's fair for cis women
She's likely totally OK with Buck Angel competing, right? Oh, but Buck wouldn't be allowed since he hasn't completed re-assignment surgery.
Why does she look like she's giving a terribly toothy blowjob in every pic I see of her?
Gotta stop looking at theater security footage...