{"id":138919,"date":"2019-05-26T18:58:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T00:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138919"},"modified":"2019-05-26T18:58:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T00:58:20","slug":"transwomen-and-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/26\/transwomen-and-sports.html","title":{"rendered":"Transwomen and sports"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This picture is presented as a great argument about how “unfair” it is that a transwoman is allowed to compete against ciswomen … until you learn that she actually lost to both the competitors shown.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An interesting Twitter thread here<\/a> about controversies regarding transgender women competing in women’s sports. It not only points out the dubious nature of the criticisms (no, transwomen don’t dominate their sports, even though accused of the “unfair” advantage of having once been men) but the occasional hypocrisies of the criticisers as well.<\/p>\n

The thread can be read more holistically here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s mostly a controversy for those who are trying to score anti-trans rhetorical points<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78,25,67],"tags":[1251,1857,1362],"class_list":["post-138919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tweets","category-gay-stuff","category-media-sports","tag-lgbt","tag-sports","tag-trans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/cece-telfer.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":139053,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/06\/donald-trump-revisits-why-he-banned-transgender-folk-from-the-military.html","url_meta":{"origin":138919,"position":0},"title":"Donald Trump revisits why he banned transgender folk from the military","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 6-Jun-19 1:07am","format":false,"excerpt":"Which is, at best, delusional. 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