DEBUNKING Conservative Attacks On Trans Athletes

Lawyer and transgender rights activist Chase Strangio joins the show to debunk right-wing attacks on trans-athletes. Sam Seder and the Majority Report crew discuss this.

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[drewphillips]

These trans athletes can compete still. Just need to compete in their biological gender

[emceecheeks]

There's only one question that matters on this topic. Do trans women retain significant physical advantages that men have over women? No one ever covers that and this video joins the bunch. Asking that question doesn't make you transphobic.

[skosh]

Wait, he said the two trans athletes in Connecticut never competed at a high level and he even called them “mediocre”, but I just looked it up and they finished first and second place in the state championship. If you have to lie to make your argument work, then you have a weak argument.

[albertfralinger]

These are most tone deaf arguments I have heard in a while

[spartacusforlife]

Using Sam's logic shouldn't a 25 Yr old man with the mental age of 8 be allowed to compete with 8 Yr olds on a sports day? This is not a culture war it is a stupidity war. Are flat earthers anymore ridiculous than people supporting trans athletes competing against women? I'm not anti trans. More power to someone wanting to live their lives in that way but they simply are not women in the true sense and many trans people admit that

[vulcanfeline]

saw a meme yesterday that stated that more u.s congressmen have been arrested for sex offenses in bathrooms than trans people

[jackbarman]

Just a reminder that anecdotes are not statistics or data.

[Majestros]

William Thomas rank: 462
Lia Thomas rank: 1

Seems fair

[liona]

5:25
"Transgirls aren't girls - the argument doesn't work without that" They aren't girls though, are they? Of course the argument wouldn't work without that. IT'S THE ENTIRE BASIS OF THE ARGUMENT. Biological males have no place in women's sport. That's the issue here, Strangio.
On the other hand, the arguments from your end boil down to "Transwomen are women", a meaningless, circular phrase that reflects some alternate, manipulated reality.
You can say the Republicans don't care about women's rights (and they generally don't), and that there are other things they should be focusing on but whatever you want to speculate about their whys and wherefores, they are in the right here. These bills need to be passed. Women's sport is for women. Women's spaces are for women. To clear up any confusion you may have about what a woman is, a woman is an adult human female.

[satyamgupta]

Everybody gangsta until Brock Lesnar identifies as a woman and dominates women's UFC for 20 years and breaking skulls of real women .

[socialoutcast]

Bruh I feel so bad for all the women athletes who spent their whole lives training to become Olympic champions only for a man to come in, take some hormones (but still keep the male bone structure) and ease into victory. What a joke you attempting to paint the picture that this is somehow transphobic, embarrassing!

[sam-rzeq]

came here looking to challenge my views on trans people in sports... lets just say this video only solidified them

[AndreAdvocate]

Trans athletes need to compete in their own divisions. Stop robbing girls of their athletic achievements.

[Curious_er]

I feel sick in my stomach. This is the erasure of women’s sports

[mike_]

I disagree, i hate when people say and do hurtful things to trans people, i think trans people are just like everyone else and should be treated as such, BUT you can't deny that trans woman that was breaking her opponent's face with a punch and winning matches. I mean this with no harm at all, but some of their male strength is still there. We just can't simply integrate trans people into sports so fast, we have to find a way to make matches fair. Like finding a way to accurately measure striking power, speed, stamina and other attributes and match people that are very close in stats. Idk it's a messy situation and i mean all of this with no hatred in my heart for trans people.

[bugviddump]

The Venn diagram of people who pearl-clutch about trans girls destroying women’s sports and those who want criminalize puberty blockers is a circle.

[aro]

I feel like most people who are for trans athletes playing with their identified gender have never played sports.

[satyamgupta]

There are less advantages due to testosterone and body structure if you transition during teenage years or like 3-6 yrs old. But they aren't as "insignificant" as these people identify them to be . And i think that's why the trams community is pushing towards radical ideas of transitioning 4-5 year olds without even asking their parents.

[NinjaDog]

The best solution would be to separate sports by skill level instead of gender.

[Vrtualspartan]

This video is joke and only contains obfuscation and dancing around the central point here, fully transitioned people born male hold innate physical advantage over those born female like bone density, potential for muscle mass, as well as other factors. This isn’t up for debate at all it’s scientific fact and transitioning doesn’t fully offset the advantages at all. One example here, that the trans athletes the guest referenced did not dominate their division is irrelevant. Just because they placed 30th and not first is not evidence of no innate advantage, perhaps they would have placed 100th had they been born cis female. Anyway, discrimination against Trans people is of course bad but arguing that it’s unfair to cis females to make them compete against trans women is not inherently such and to suggest so is ridiculous.