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I've always found the moral panic over Trans people in sports weird. Sports don't actually do anything. If some guy throws a ball better than someone else or a woman can poke someone more with a stick it literally has no effect on the world other than what significance we give it.
Yeah, I find people's emotional investment in sports to be very strange. Not just professional sports, but the Olympics. Like, who the hell cares who can throw a ball the farthest, or jump the highest? What does that do for anyone? How is that useful, or helpful, or valuable in any way?
It's just stupid on every level that anyone gives a damn about trans people in sports. Obviously it's manufactured culture war bullshit, but the fact that it's had any kind of staying power is infuriating.