Opponents say [Washington state] voters were persuaded at least partly because the initiative and its boosters exploited deep-seated prejudices and misunderstandings about transgender people to erode their rights.

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          5 days ago

          You need to take a break, go for a walk or something. This is not a place for your very childish hostile hate speech.

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                Insisting, against all scientific evidence, that trans women have some undefinable unfair advantage because testosterone from years ago supposedly can magically stick around to give better physical results is indeed transphobia.

                It is an unreasonable, unsupported fear of an aspect of trans women. By definition that is transphobia, in the truest possible sense.

                I’m sorry that you are wrong. I’m sorry that science fully disagrees with your take. I’m sorry you guessed wrong on this subject. But I have provided you the tools to educate yourself. It is up to you to actually do so, instead of continuing to be bigoted.

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                    4 days ago

                    At least this is somewhat scientific transphobia this time!

                    Weird how this doesn’t affect athletes who transition then. [1] But specifically to this unique claim, this largely either does not matter, or cannot be determined given the limited data of there just not being enough trans athletes, period. [2] Given the results, the fact most trans women athletes fall within a median distribution of cis women athletes, it is much more likely than not this simply does not have an effect versus cis women athletes, given oestrogen actually protections myonuclei and other satellite cells, encouraging its growth versus just testosterone. [3] So really, this was a good attempt little buddy. I appreciate it, genuinely, that you are willing to try to justify the bigotry you displayed, but currently this just isn’t supported by the data.

                    Maybe next century!