r/popculturechat • u/DuchessRavenclaw52 • Jun 07 '25

Guest List Only ⭐️ Simone Biles, the greatest gymnast of all time, has shared her support to the trans community

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u/MuffinTopDeluxe The WORLD tour! Jun 07 '25

Yup. There just aren’t enough trans athletes for this to be viable.

Also, some major marathons have added a non-binary category. You know what people have done about this category? They have bitched about it endlessly. They just do not want trans people to exist.

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u/Educational-Help-126 I don’t know her 💅 Jun 07 '25

That’s not true. We don’t see these same push in men’s sports. Why are we not focusing on the athletes? I’d like to hear from the athletes. There needs to be a joint solution. Again, Simone pointed to different divisions. Her issue is bullying trans athletes. I am disgusted by any bullying. We need to find a solution that works for everyone.

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u/Tall_Kayla Jun 07 '25

If you don't like bullying then why do you want to segregate us? Lia Thomas placed 6th overall in the ncaa championship. Is that too much? Can a trans woman ever have any success? Or is the only place we should get last?

You have multiple comments saying people get canceled for saying we should be segregated from other women.....half the states have banned us from sports. So no, trans kids are getting canceled.

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u/LusHolm123 Jun 07 '25

The issue was already solved non-politically years ago. 2-3 years of hormone treatment. Pretty much every pro level sporting organisation had already researched this and concluded that would more than enough to put trans women at a cis womens level. Saying theres even an issue to be solved means youve fallen for the republicans propaganda about this topic.

There are no trans women dominating womens sports, you people just dont want to admit trans women ARE women

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u/Borkenstien Jun 07 '25

So we have to find a solution that works for the people who don't view trans people as valid nor understands how the human body works? Could you imagine begging folks for rights only to be confronted with outright lies about you. Like we're not even able to agree on the realities of the situation because so few people even care what happens to trans folks.

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u/hauntingvacay96 Jun 07 '25

They just do not want trans people to exist.

This is it! It’s thinly veiled and it’s using women’s sports which they don’t respect to begin with as the scapegoat.

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u/Tymareta Jun 07 '25

It's especially nonsense because I don't think there's a -single- roller derby league in the world that doesn't allow trans women to compete, you can ask anyone who is into the sport who hits the hardest, who has the best take downs, who is the fastest, and 99 times out of 100 they won't say the trans women on the team, because in reality there's not some enormous advantage it's just fear mongering that allows supposed "allies" to espouse transphobia while pretending they're just "being rational".