“No one, whether you’re trans or not, wants the federal government digging through your identifiable patient information and figuring out what they like and don’t like,” Hack said. “It’s an absolute overreach, and people are really scared.”
Asked whether Hack’s priorities were measures he could support, Platner agreed. “Yes, indeed. They most certainly do,” he said.
rainbow drones with lesbian pilots
I understand that Platner can be divisive, but that aside, I seem to recall some unpopular, four-term President declaring that he welcomed that hate from his adversaries. Probably a bad idea to do the same; he might win with that kind of messaging, and winning is against the Democratic ethos.
Platner can be divisive
Only to those with either thin skin, a sense of entitlement about what kinds of people should be allowed access to political power, or who don’t have a coherent theory of change.
Look. I’m a veteran. I drank that kool-aid and won the poverty draft lotto. I literally signed up for tacos. Understanding the imperialist machine from the inside changes you. And veterans have been representative in the fight against fascism in the US the whole time. And I’ve worked with every one in those links. Many of them were raised as conservative assholes. And for some of them it took their buddy getting blown up in the humvee next to them to wake up to the consequences of imperialism. And you should have the grace to allow people to change.
I believe in redemption and I think everyone should. We all grow as people, that should be celebrated.
It is looking good for him so far. Even with the cynics shouting.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/senate/general/2026/maine/collins-vs-platner
The “he deserved to die” outrage over Platners reddit comments literally solidified every veterans vote in Maine for Platner.
It’s kinda funny. They (media and the establishment) are so out of touch that they tried to make outrage around a comment literally every veteran would universally understand. Mocking someone in the military for their own stupidity and incompetence that should have gotten them killed.
I’m not a veteran myself. But, I have enough veteran friends to know that that is exactly how they talk about people they served with. It’s like military banter 101. The fact that they tried to form a “he wants troops to die” story out of it. It makes literally everything else they bring up useless.
I’ll just be happy when I have to stop hearing about this guy. Hope he wins. But, holy shit, he’s not worth this much attention.
Anyone who threatens the status quo is going to receive a lot of negative media attention. That’s how I know he’s the real deal. The establishment is afraid of him. Just like Talarico. They wouldn’t put so much effort into manufacturing outrage about him if they didn’t know he means what he says. If he was a turncoat, the right-wing media would be quiet about him and the troll farms wouldn’t be so desperate to smear him.
Once he (hopefully) wins, they’ll try to sweep him under the rug and not give him any attention, because they won’t want people to see how much good an elected progressive can do.
I’ll just be happy when I have to stop hearing about this guy.
If Platner loses, you’ll hear the odd “This is why the Left Lost” op-ed for a few more years before he fades into obscurity.
If he wins… It’s going to be Scandal of The Month with Platner for six whole years or until they can get him to resign early. Imagine the endless shit Al Franken got and then ratchet that up a peg. CBS is going to reinvent #MeToo just to monster him out of office.
Nah, they’ll ignore him once he’s in office. Because his personal life won’t matter anymore. If he actually follows through on being progressive and anti war they’ll basically ignore him like they have anything positive related to Mamdani.
Nah, they’ll ignore him once he’s in office.
There’s always a handful of Congresscritters who become the fixation of media monstering campaigns. AOC, Cori Bush, and Ilhan Omar have been popular whipping girls for nearly a decade. Ted Cruz and Louise Gohmert were another pair of jokers the DC media loved to clown on. Platner is exactly the kind of guy you’ll see written about in some Op-Ed or Style Guide, where the professional Mean Girls Club of pundits plaster catty smears masquerading as serious think pieces.
Ross Douthat will be putting up an article every month about how Jesus Wept over the Maine election process. Maggie Haberman will be doing think pieces titled “Does a Senator Beat His Wife?” the first time Platner and Amy Gertner express diverging views in public. We’re going to get an Israeli flag background image behind some WaPo piece about New England anti-semitism, fixating on the worst five Platner voters the paper can find.
If he actually follows through on being progressive and anti war
He’ll be in a single-digit minority voting pool most of his career. Which is to his credit. Gotta start somewhere. But the Senate is a naturally reactionary and deeply genocidal institution by design. I hope he wins, but I doubt he’ll do more with his time in office than put up a bunch of angry protest votes.
Yeah but Al Franken didn’t have a nazi tattoo on his chest for twenty years before claiming he didn’t know the obvious nazi tattoo was a nazi tattoo.
A lot of people have tattoos they don’t know the meaning of, and a lot of people aren’t familiar with nazi iconography, apart from the swastika.
People accusing him of being a Nazi sympathizer because of his tattoo are incredibly shortsighted.
I’m accusing him of being a liar or being fucking stupid, both of which should be disqualifying if Americans weren’t mostly fucking fascists. I don’t think he’s a nazi I think he’s a fucking moron or a liar. Both are bad. Still better than Collins because that’s where the bar is now. Reading comprehension is important. I’m accusing everyone making bullshit excuses about the nazi tattoo nazi apologists because they’re making apologies for Nazi shit.
I don’t think he’s a nazi
Well if you don’t, why are you focussing so much on the tattoo? Just file it under “stupid things he did when he was younger” and move on. It might be offensive to some people, but that’s the price for freedom of speech.
At this point, I have to assume everything else you say is a lie, because you are all-in on lying about that tattoo over and over and over and over and over.
Are you AIPAC or a Republican candidate? No one else picks one note and lies on it this much.
I’m a person unwilling to make excuses for a guy having a Nazi tattoo on his chest for twenty years and claims to have been unaware for the entirety of that twenty years. Which is bullshit because that tattoo would get your ass kicked at a public pool. I guess apparently not now since all y’all like excusing actual Nazi shit and claim to be just as fuck ignorant about recent fuckin super relevant history. Also, Israel doesn’t have a right to exist and is a genocidal theocratic apartheid ethnostate; fuck Israel. And all elected republicans are traitors and deserve a messy public death. So yeah, fuck you Bill.
Go yell at some more clouds, liar.
I think that it is okay to be entitled to wanting better representation than him. He’s definitely not perfect, not by a long shot, and there are certainly warning signs about him. You’re right in that people change. They can be better. He may very well be much better than he was, and he definitely looks like he is so far. But, his changing for the better doesn’t have to put him in a position of power, either. Because it is also entitlement that he wants to be Senator with the type of baggage he has. But, I can’t say there is currently a better candidate than him right now.
That’s the way I see it, anyway. I will hope he continues to be a progressive force, and that my doubts are unfounded!
Hah, joke’s on me. I threw that in to head off the complaining from his haters, so we could focus on the good things he’s doing. Can’t please everybody, I guess.
I mean your not wrong to have included it. But so much of the reaction is from a place of cynicism and bad faith. I think everyones hackles are raised, and legitimately so, around characters like Sinema and Fetterman. But what Planter is doing is clearly different and has been different since they started. I got to meet them when one of my volunteer groups were trying to make the decision around endorsing him. This was back in September & October.
And there has been a lot which has happened between August and now. Anything that can happened in this race basically did. If they had more powder to set off, they needed to set it off weeks ago, because at this pace Platner is looking to schelack Collins.
Its time to coalesce as a party. Schumer and Jefferies just threw the best two years we had to fight fascism to a pit and lit it on fire. But now, now Woke is back baby!, and Woke 2 gonna make your head spin. We need to see Platner, Mandami, Al Sayed (inshalah), Chris Rabb, All three of Mamdani’s endorsees on one stage. Schumer and Jefferies spoiled our ability to present a coherent front of resistance against fascism. That changes in November.
I don’t believe he didn’t know what the tattoo was but he gets the benefit of the doubt as long as he keeps putting his money where his mouth is.
I was drunk as fuck on habu saki, 18 years old, in Okinawa one night on shore, in line with four other sailors to get tattoos. I dont remember what happened after that.
Did you proceed to have an obvious nazi tattoo on your chest for a decade and change? Because that’s a big blind spot and a bad look. Like, he’s better than Collins and he’s saying the right stuff, but I won’t trust him until he’s proven himself. You don’t get a nazi tattoo for years and years and not deserve a lot of extra scrutiny. He’s got a lot of work to do.
Dude it’s not an obvious Nazi tattoo when 9 out 10 of the people here couldn’t pick the fucking tattoo out of a lineup.
You’re being wildly ridiculous.
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The people here aren’t observant. It’s literally the goddamn emblem on the SS cap. If you’ve seen a movie featuring nazis ever, you’ve seen the totenkopf. What’s wildly ridiculous is every goddamn body making excuses for a fucking Nazi capital N Nazi tattoo. I keep saying he’s certainly better than Collins because the bar is in fuckin hell but none of you fuckin people actually read that part, you’re all too busy defending a fuckin nazi tattoo. Our options here are that he’s oblivious enough to have a nazi tattoo on his chest for twenty fucking years, or he’s obviously fucking lying about not knowing it was a nazi tattoo and never cared to do anything about it until it got public. These are shit options, but yeah, still better than Collins. Stop fuckin making excuses for Nazi tattoos, like fuckin hell I know lemmings love fascism but christ but maybe not make excuses for the fuckin poster child. Congratulations, now you also have comments defending nazi tattoos. This is why Americans fucking deserve the government we have. We ask for it, because apparently holding someone to account for a fucking Nazi tattoo is too much for you fucking people. I’d have a lot more respect for the fucker if he just admitted he was a dumb fucking kid that didn’t think it was a big deal instead of lying about knowing what it was.
I honestly could see him not knowing, especially if the other fascist fucks he was hanging out with were getting the same ink.
But that’s a “makes bad decisions” discussion rather than a “maybe it’s not as Nazi as you think” discussion.
It’s totally, 110% Nazi. The only remaining question is “did it represent his views then, and does it represent his views now?”
Did you proceed to have an obvious nazi tattoo on your chest for a decade and change?
Nope. Just woke up on the sub with a shiner and a bank account that had been completely drained, neither of which I had an explanation for.
Because that’s a big blind spot and a bad look. Like, he’s better than Collins and he’s saying the right stuff, but I won’t trust him until he’s proven himself. You don’t get a nazi tattoo for years and years and not deserve a lot of extra scrutiny. He’s got a lot of work to do.
Yeah and this is the point I made about giving people space to have changed. Mainers have had that kind of grace, and if you believe in grass-roots democracy, you should trust them at this point. And its funny because I make the point, people seem to nod their heads along, and then always, there is some chirper who wants to pipe in and say “not good enough”. And its really a catastrophic sickness in the current leftist populist moment in the US, which we can easily contrast with the rightwing populist moment (both started at the same time).
The rightwing movement has been inclusive, and the leftwing movement has been exclusive; and because of that difference in ideology, the rightwing movement took over for the previous 10 years and enacted their agenda: fascism. And you (and others) are doing it right here. Your trying to find a way to exclude someone from the movement. Rightwing populism has been doing the opposite. When they identify someone who could be an ally, they find a way to make a seat for them at the table. Its a horrible, fascist, disgusting table, but its been able to grow its membership because they’ll take all comers and speak to how their movement will address their grievances.
The entire point being made is that the very thing you are doing is a self-destructive, reactionary tendency which has knee-capped our ability to grow a leftist populism which can confront fascism. And I wont’ deny there are other factors to surmount in this regard, but this self-sabotaging instinct is fundamental to why things have been so difficult. Thankfully though, as the movement has grown, this voice of yours which is typically online, and very disconnected from lived experience, its volume becomes lost in the crowd.
The very thing I’m doing is not implicitly trusting a man that claims he didn’t realize he had a nazi tattoo on his chest for twenty years. A nazi tattoo that he says he got in Croatia and it’s a fair assumption that wasn’t the only displayed nazi iconography there. And everyone who’s seen him shirtless for twenty years to also not have any idea. Like, I’d rather he just admit to having known what it was because otherwise he and his circle have a significant amount of ignorance that’s especially relevant when actual nazis are getting elected. I’m not being unreasonable or self destructive here. Until he proves with significant action otherwise, I’m going to assume he’s the kinda guy that would get a nazi tattoo, because he did. Army bullshit is still a bullshit excuse. I’m giving him all the grace he deserves, which is enough for him to win the primary innit? But talk is cheap from anyone, especially someone who had a death’s head on their tit for twenty years and still claims to not know what it was. So when he gets elected and starts backing up his words, he’ll get the credit that’s absolutely due. Sure people can change, but the burden of proof to show with actions consistently that they have changed is on them.
Thankfully though, as the movement has grown, this voice of yours which is typically online, and very disconnected from lived experience, its volume becomes lost in the crowd.
I do. That doesn’t mean I’d take the risk of voting for someone like you. No offense. But I don’t believe you or trust you and I never will.
Or that I wouldn’t openly question massive red flags like Nazi tattoos.
And to pretend that the US military has been anti fascist at all since the end of WW2 is a joke and I’d say I’m surprised people here are upvoting it, but then again I’m familiar with how desperate people on here are for literally anyone to even pretend they’re a leftist.
Thanks for demonstrating the “lacks a coherent theory of change” in practice. Nothing better than a worked example to make the point.
Thankfully this kind of opinion is relegated to the terminally on line and is basically non-existent in the real world. No positive social change could happen if we don’t give people space to change.
I seem to recall some unpopular, four-term President declaring that he welcomed that hate from his adversaries.
It was a bit weird when we found out FDR had a Rebel Flag tramp stamp. But you can’t argue with good policies.
I can’t tell you how long I’ve been waiting for someone to say exactly this statement.
I want to revisit this topic after the election. Until then FETTERMAN
I think they should be forced to duel the day he’s sworn in. David and Goliath style, in that arena they built in front of the White House.
I don’t even care about sheer size alone, plat is winning that fight. My opinion of the 2 men aside, Fetterman could maybe get one of those big dashes in that video game bosses do where he crashes into the wall and stuns himself and then Platner just rips him apart with his hands. Those military dudes got strong hands. Scares me, personally…
but (being serious now) if Platner wants to walk the walk as an anti-imperialist candidate I hope he can show it. I do hope he wins, though I don’t have any say in the Maine race anyways from over a thousand miles away. I don’t like him as a person from what I’ve seen from him, but like I said I’ve never even been to Maine and if he serves the working class in Maine and serves as a genuine anti-war anti-imperialist voice in America it’s a good thing. I’m just very very VERY skeptical so far.
if Platner wants to walk the walk as an anti-imperialist candidate I hope he can show it
Same. I hope he’s as serious as he sounds and not just some Joe Rogan “I’ll say whatever my audience wants to hear” meathead. At this point, it’s too late to do much else except hold my breath and pray.
I don’t like him as a person from what I’ve seen from him
I mean, he’s a thug from Maine. I like him way better than Susan Collins or Janet Mills, who are just a pair of snakes in flesh suits. But I have to assume there’s a heart beating under that tattoo big enough to feel regret for his early life and contrition enough to do better in the future.
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Bro literally who cares about sports? They’re games, why do we have to keep pretending that they’re so important society balances upon them? Jesus Christ just let whoever wants to play the dumb game play the dumb game and stop making me hear about it
You have been brain washed by the dumbest people in your country. This isn’t a real problem. Its an imaginary morass of hate you are too gullible to pull yourself out of.
Even if trans athletes do have an advantage over cis athletes, why is it the job of politicians to regulate that? There are athletic leagues at every academic level who are supposed to determine what constitutes fair competition and regulate their programs accordingly. Why should federal legislators, who have less expertise than these organizations, be writing their rules for them?
There is no expertise in knowing that boys are stronger than girls. The purpose of legislation is to prevent girls from getting injured and protect girls’ sports. Boys who are transgender breaking girls’ records would ruin the sport.
Oh, so now it’s a safety issue? Alright, well then how far do we take this? Should children be segregated by gender in case the boys accidentally hurt the girls during recess? Should including girls in a pickup game of basketball be considered reckless endangerment? I mean, if professional and academic sports organizations can’t be trusted to make these decisions,.why should we trust educators or parents?
As for breaking records, well, if trans girls/women have such a huge advantage (and what little evidence we do have on the subject indicates they don’t), again, why is that the government’s job to regulate that instead of the athletic institutions? Why do you want the government dictating the rules surrounding this? You know, some schools let upperclassmen playi on the junior varsity team. Should the government be regulating that as well?
It comes down to this; if you trust these athletic institutions to make all of these other determinations about fairness and safety, but feel the government needs to mandate their decisions on trans athletes, it doesn’t seem like your issue is fairness and safety. It seems like it’s trans people.
No, it’s fairness. Women competing against men who are transgender is like women competing against women who use steroids.
Which is why black women are famously segregated to the black-only events.
You know, since they have naturally higher testosterone levels than white women.
And why the Danes are segregated to the Nordic-only events. What with the average height of women in Finland being 6 feet and all.
It’s only fair.
Racial differences are not as great as gender differences.
Not really, the differences just aren’t that large in general. The average black woman has a lower testosterone count than the average man, but a fairly large portion of the spread of black women is still higher than the average to lower end of the spread for men. And even the spread between white men and women has plenty of overlap where there are women with higher testosterone levels than men, and that’s just within one specific race.
Black women have testosterone counts high enough to get them frequently banned from the Olympics. Two time gold medal winner Caster Semenya has been banned since 2019 because her natural testosterone levels are considered too high and “give her an unfair advantage.”
Besides, trans women tend to have lower testosterone counts than cis women, because they take medication that reduces your body’s ability to intake testosterone as it takes up the same receptors as estrogen. This means that cis women build muscle more easily than trans women.
Still side-stepping the question. I couldn’t possibly care less about what you think is or isn’t fair. Why is it so important to you that the Democrats adopt this position? Why should the federal government be regulating this at all? Why not trust athletic associations, who’s entire purpose is to facilitate fair competitions for their teams and players, to make this determination on their own?
Democrats want to adopt positions that they can win on. It’s better to have uniform laws since teams from different schools compete against each other.
Democrats want to adopt positions that they can win on.
What evidence do you have, beyond your personal biases, that, “we are going supersede the judgement of independent organizations in order to dictate policies on trans athletes to them,” is a winning position?
It’s better to have uniform laws since teams from different schools compete against each other.
Athletic leagues don’t operate on a school-by-school basis. There are county, state, and national leagues that are already setting the rules by which schools compete. The NFHS and NCAA, for example, already made the, “uniform laws,” you want. Both organizations have already been forced to change their rules on trans athletes in certain states to accommodate anti-trans legislation, and the NCAA changed their national rules to comply with a (probably unlawful) executive order.
This is what’s so infuriating about your position. You act as though you’re just asking for the government to make rules for everyone to follow, but you’re actually asking for the government to overrule the rules you don’t like.
There is no expertise in knowing that boys are stronger than girls.
Every male athlete should be put on estrogen if they want to play co-ed sports. Out of… UwU… fairness.
Tennis mixed doubles. Rec League volleyball. All of it.
In fact, I think we should require everyone in the NFL to be on estrogen, just in case someone snuck in.
No, there are events such as the Olympic mixed relay which deliberately mix men and women.
That pool should be filled with estrogen to make it fair.
I agree with the idea but it should be up to the institutions to decide, not the federal or state government. I’m sure it would be a contentious issue as some schools would allow it while others wouldn’t. But let those institutions spend time and money figuring it out, not the government.
The only argument they have is that we need to “protect biological females” but even that is performative bull shit since the right doesn’t actually care about women like that. The same way they are “pro-life” until the baby is actually born and they strip any kind of welfare benefits or school lunch programs.
Politicians love this shit cuz they don’t have to address actual issues like affordability or taxes etc.
In the year of our lord sweet baby Jesus fucking Christ two thousand and twenty six, how is sport your biggest political concern?
It’s sufficiently important that Republicans bring it up.
“The Jewish problem is sufficiently important that Nazis bring it up.”
Candidates do not just talk about a few issues. A low-priority issue might be sufficient to sway some voters.
It’s sufficiently engagement bait for their voters, you mean.
Oh right, they only bring important matters to the American people. Like snowballs brought in during climate discussions, that was sufficiently important.
So you’re a Republican?
No. I’m warning Democrats will give Republicans an issue if they are in favor of men who are transgender competing in women sports.
males who are transgender.
You’re right, transmen shouldn’t play in women’s sports. They should play in men’s sports.
Who in their right mind would let this guy compete in women’s wrestling?
Who in their right mind would let this guy compete in women’s wrestling?
Ken Paxton, apparently.
males who are transgender
Woof woof. Bow-wow.
I’m not sure which is worse. The naked TERF language or the very weird explicit omission of the opposite case.
There are like 10 trans athletes in the u.s.
Most are in sports that wouldn’t be dependent on gender. Like billiards. Archery.
Also I saw recently a bonafide xx chromosome woman beat all the men in a strong competition.
Something a lot of people don’t know is that trans women often have partial bottom surgery. Removal of testicles. And they take female hormones.
They might have male bone structure but they no longer get the male hormones that increase their muscle mass.
I acknowledge it’s a complex issue with different arguments to be had.
But it’s really important to note this is literally a handful of people. A handful.
And it’s not like trans women are beating the cis women at everything.
They aren’t.
There doesn’t really seem to be any advantage beyond what a cis woman with good athletic genes also has.
Most trans women aren’t athletic. So it’s not even that they all have this matched advantage.
Just some
Just like how some women have it.
It’s not really predicted by being trans, is my point.
Archery requires arm strength which gives the advantage to males. Sports which are seemingly not dependent on gender might be. Note that most chess players are male.
There exists XX male syndrome. Such a person is not really female.
Even if trans women athletes take female hormones, she would still have an advantage over biological women. Male hips are small in relation to their shoulders whereas female hips are wide. This gives males an advantage in running since their hands can efficiently move up and down.
We are only discussing males who are transgender competing in female sports not other trans rights.
Accuracy of archery isn’t as dependent on arm strength beyond what a trained woman can provide.
Sure some sports like running should be separated.
But it’s not that many. We can look at scores to determine which sports actually need separated. Instead of assuming they need separated.
Even billiards and golf is separated. For no biology reason.
Most separation came about because men wouldn’t allow women into their sports so women formed their own.
Chess, like many male-centric activities has historically excluded women. This is why women are in lower numbers for many professions and hobbies. They arent welcome. The men are hostile to them. It’s not easy to stay in a hobby/profession where you aren’t respected and everyone gives you the cold shoulder.
The fact that biological women can and do perform at mens levels proves it’s a social exclusion, not a biological one.
It’s kind of why men are lower in numbers in women’s hobbies/professions. Except that it isn’t necessary exclusion by women but mocking by other men and having their masculinity challenged.
There are plenty of men who are great at sewing, design, cooking, and even child rearing who are cis hetero men. Only in the last 15 or 20 years has it became more acceptable for men to have baking as a hobby. Before then, cooking was women’s work. Most men could barely use a microwave and would brag at their incompetence in the kitchen as an indicator of their masculinity.
I know it all gets so old so fast but these things still occur. Think of all the men who might be amazing seamstress or clothing designers. Or maybe could come up with new tasty foods to eat. Yet our society says they aren’t real men if they venture out into these areas. And often they are mockes mostly by other men but even women are part of the problem and are known to mock men or ask them “are you gay or something?” When they tell you they love knitting in their free time.
How is knitting related to sexual preferences? I don’t know but many people seem to think it is.
These gender role trends take a long time to change. And take specific interventions to change them. They don’t change on their own.
Gordon Ramsey probably had a big role in changing the baking one. As crazy as that sounds. ( And other male chiefs and cooks on TV. )
Yeah your point about genetics proves my point.
Genetic Sex isn’t binary in the first place.
That’s why trying to make hard rules based on chromosomes or what genital parts are visible is invalid.
It’s important to remember that all these activities we say are “for men” or “for women”. Were invented long long after sexes existed and even 40,000-50,000 years or more after humans evolved into who we are today.
(estimate based on unknown age of humans).
I mean chess. Making clothes. Knitting. Archery even.
How could humans possibly evolve so that one sex is good at those things and the other isn’t. ?
That’s just silly. It’s much more likely we are all cognitively capable and have similar dexterity with variations in genetics accounting for differences between individuals. Not between sexes.
Obviously some physical strength differences. Men have upper body strength and women have lower body for carrying babies.
But that’s almost all of the difference there is. Just those related to reproduction.
From https://splicedonline.com/do-you-need-to-be-strong-to-be-an-archer/
Archers need to generate enough strength to draw back the string and hold it in position for a sufficient amount of time to take aim and release the arrow. The amount of strength required varies depending on the individual and the type of bow being used, but most archers require a combination of strength, power, and control to effectively utilize their equipment.
Some psychologists believe that males dominate in chess because they have superior spatial relationship than women.
I never said you don’t need to be strong. I said women athletes are more than capable of archery. They are. They even currently compete.
The spatial thing is a myth and does not hold up when tested better.
However. Men typically have faster reflexes by like 50 ms. Its not a lot but it’s consistent.
There is something important to note about xy abilities.
Men have a flatter and wider bell curve for pretty much any trait. What this means is that most women ( traits ) score close to the mean compared to men’s. (For a given trait).
You often hear “men have higher iqs”. Well they dont but there are more men who have high iqs than women. But. There are also more men with the lowest iqs. (Though you dont hear people bringing that up)
You get more top athletes. But also more men with incredibly poor physical condition.
Disorders are more prevalent and genetic errors related to that Y, but you also occasionally get a beneficial error.
So it’s a trade off. A gamble. Being male might result in a little genetic bonus. But it’s just as likely you get a handicap.
And this sort of thing is more than likely a product of the sex chromosomes for men being incomplete xx. So they have a greater chance for a non dominant gene on that Y chromosome to be expressed. It’s why men are more prone to color blindness. It’s carried on that chromosome. Women usually have a backup on the extra tail on the X that will overwrite the bad recessive one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variability_hypothesis
Even if men have higher variability, this is an irrelevant point for their ability to play most sports better than women.
Because there might be more athletic men. But there are comparable athletic women. It just means that it’s more competition for mens teams because more potentials are available.
It doesn’t mean they are better than the female team in ability. Though I acknowledge there are sports that should stay separated. Like track. Basketball.
It’s like. Let’s say 500 people in your city are doctors. Good doctors.
Let’s say 40 people in my city are good doctors.
You can’t say your doctors are better than mine just because you have more of them. They all went to med school and are board certified. The number for a given city is irrelevant.
An athlete will not be in poor health. Healthy men will perform better than healthy women in sports. Consequently, it’s better to separate them.
Really focusing on the important issues there aren’t you buddy.
Other issues such as the economy are more important but Republicans will certainly bring up the issue of trans right.
Who gives a fuck? In 45 years of my life the only issues they have every brought up are red like them. Specifically, red herrings. Repulicunts can be ignored as the lying traitors they are.
…and?
Well, according to this headline, you’re welcome to attack Platner over it.
Glad to see your electoral priorities are straight…/s what does this have to do with anything? Also no, sports are not based on anything to do with build or physique 😂
Sports is based on physique. That’s the reason in boxing there are weight classes. Trans rights are not a priority issue but an issue that Republicans will certainly bring up.
Democrats should not support males who are transgender competing in women’s sports
Good thing they don’t then
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