Post AWtGbA3wNSRy6jZA1Y by koherecoWatchdog@freeradical.zone
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(DIR) Post #AWtGb7P6GKaprURW5Y by koherecoWatchdog@freeradical.zone
2023-06-20T09:15:46Z
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I oppose exclusivity in sports. Gender is irrelevant in most sports & unsuitable as a criteria for athletic divisions. Testosterone level is the ideal criteria for division. This gender-agnostic non-binary stance best serves trans athletes. It’s inherently inclusive & simultaneously fair to ignore gender & divide by T levels. This idea triggers ppl determined to preserve binary gender divisions to the ironic extent of slinging the “transphobia” label to rationalize #censorship.
(DIR) Post #AWtGb873ctks3p0cbY by fubar@freeradical.zone
2023-06-20T16:51:37Z
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@koherecoWatchdog Why is testosterone ideal? A lot of highly competitive cis-male athletes have lower than average testosteron. They weaponize T while there's no real reason for it if you look at the broader spectrum of athletic results afaik.Why not have competency levels similar to weight levels in boxing or whatever?! T is also a dangerous one because it has a tendency to strongly stigmatize cis-women with high-T levels as well as discriminate against trans folks.https://www.hrw.org/report/2020/12/04/theyre-chasing-us-away-sport/human-rights-violations-sex-testing-elite-women
(DIR) Post #AWtGb8kPGbEM1rQ2wC by koherecoWatchdog@freeradical.zone
2023-06-20T17:06:13Z
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@fubar I didn’t read the whole article you ref’d (let me know if i should). I saw right away they were misusing testosterone tests.They were not creating T level divisions-- they were doing a male/female division then using T levels as a means for exclusion. I’m opposed to that.I actually don’t oppose the use of steroids, so long as T levels are fairly matched between competitors.
(DIR) Post #AWtGbA3wNSRy6jZA1Y by koherecoWatchdog@freeradical.zone
2023-06-20T09:16:01Z
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#Censorship (esp. the quiet variety) of factually accurate civil msgs is an uncivil act. Particularly whilst preserving uncivil replies. They could not explain why my advocacy is “transphobic”. They could only call me a bigot & hope it sticks. I don’t give a shit about the accusations of hot-heads but the suppression of msgs by those who can’t articulate better speech in response to disliked ideas is unacceptable. It sacrifices a chance to correct transphobia (had the accusation been accurate).
(DIR) Post #AWtGbAyIztXKvXwAsa by koherecoWatchdog@freeradical.zone
2023-06-20T17:08:38Z
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@fubar There are competency divisions to /some/ extent. E.g. special olympics would be an example of that. Seems tricky to do on a more granular scale. I’ve not looked at it closely, but it sounds like an athlete can get burnt just by a tricky misplacement of division. That’s my off-the-cuff thought.
(DIR) Post #AWtGbCX5C4wvlhDSj2 by fubar@freeradical.zone
2023-06-20T17:18:11Z
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@koherecoWatchdog Basically, athletic competency is complex. Much more complex than 1 marker and varies between sports. Why not divide into lactic acid thresholds and ban Micheal Phelps for his unfair advantage
(DIR) Post #AWtGbD7b0K9lawIcdc by koherecoWatchdog@freeradical.zone
2023-06-20T17:24:56Z
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@fubar Complexity is not a favorable attribute. Athletes need to trust the system.If you’re banning an athlete, you’re doing it wrong. There is a serious problem with any athletic organization that bans an athlete.There should always be a top division for the heaviest, strongest, most X attribute of whatever you’re measuring, & everyone without exception should be eligible for that top division.
(DIR) Post #AWtGbDh2sWVrMssvtQ by koherecoWatchdog@freeradical.zone
2023-06-20T09:16:31Z
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The discussion could have inspired interesting offshoot chatter like “what about wrestling?” Or “what about privacy… maybe 25 y.o. women don’t want their high T level exposed…”, etc. Instead, low quality uncivil mud-slinging replies were given center stage by suppressing the civil msgs. I recently discovered mstdn.social was also silently limiting my msgs until recently. I’m not in a good place here.
(DIR) Post #AWtGbDvE1nr64rWFzk by koherecoWatchdog@freeradical.zone
2023-06-20T17:28:17Z
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@fubar When I was a competitor, it was by divided by gender & weight classes. Gender can be substituted for T level.The interesting thing about weight classes is an athlete’s weight determined the *min* division they could compete in, not the max. Everyone chose the min division typically not even knowing they had a choice. But we did have the option of taking a bigger challenge & competing in a higher weight class than we qualified in.
(DIR) Post #AWtGbEh59s8WTHuTaa by fubar@freeradical.zone
2023-06-20T17:38:41Z
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@koherecoWatchdog Gender can't be substituted by T level. There's a lot of overlap. You'd be excluding a lot of people. Which is against your stated intent. I don't think you've really spent time on this topic and you sound like you just want to be right.
(DIR) Post #AWtGbFNcbiAEbDoRtY by koherecoWatchdog@freeradical.zone
2023-06-20T17:41:50Z
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@fubar When you say “excluding people” you’ve misunderstood me. Exclusion is unacceptible. There should always be a top tier division that excludes no one.Divide it up in whatever is sensible for the sport (weight, T level, rank) to keep it fair w/in each division. But the highest division should have no exclusivity criteria based on their physiology. If someone has unsportsmanlike conduct issues, sure.. but their chemistry & other physical attributes should be welcome /somewhere/.
(DIR) Post #AWtGbG6zt0Sarx2gca by koherecoWatchdog@freeradical.zone
2023-06-20T18:00:41Z
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@fubar btw, i don’t mean to dismiss the competency divisions. It’s something I need to study. I could only give my knee-jerk thought now; that complexity is unfavorable. It could be the winning idea in the end. But my other knee-jerk thought is: if I’m placed in a low competency group it’d destroy my fragile ego before the competition even begins; how bad do i want to be the champ of a low competency group? My sense of pride & fulfillment may fair better if winning in a light weight class.
(DIR) Post #AWtGbGNIuNVJgWfi2S by koherecoWatchdog@freeradical.zone
2023-06-20T09:16:51Z
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If you participated in my recent poll surveying why males & females are in separate athletic divisions, that poll was censored & those vote results are trashed.