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xocetaceans

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11. Competition in a sport is about winning. I think you might mean participating and not competing, but even then, sports
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 11:15 PM
Jul 23

are not designed with rules to foster "NPCs". The rules all have victory conditions defined within them. There aren't people who are just hanging out on a basketball court, on a football pitch, or on any playing field in any sport. The rules of the sport don't designate neutral players who are essentially tourists. So, I don't really think that you and I have at all the same idea of what sports are. Maybe you mean some sort of low-intensity sort of P.E. class pick-up games, I don't know. However, from the junior high level and up through the pros, sports and competition are about winning by pushing yourself and defeating your opponents by preparation and with fair play.

All that being said, though, you essentially dodged my question about the success of trans men in men's sports. Has that actually happened? If it has, then it should really should be brought up, because that would be a positive argument that shows that things can be made to be fair from either side at least in principle.

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This message was self-deleted by its author wcmagumba Jul 22 #1
Transgender women participating in sports is a complicated issue. TomSlick Jul 22 #2
Caitlyn Jenner won the men's decathlon at the 1976 Olympics Shrek Jul 24 #14
only applies to the USA team, cannot stop other nations. what, is there a flood of transgender ppl joing olympic teams? msongs Jul 22 #3
How about Transgender men ? JI7 Jul 22 #4
Does that even ever happen? I've never heard of a transgender man achieving success in a men's sporting event. At... xocetaceans Jul 22 #5
Winning isn't the point of thls Oeditpus Rex Jul 23 #7
Why aren't there any transgender men competing in men's sports? pcdb Jul 23 #9
Rhetorical question? Oeditpus Rex Jul 23 #10
What makes you think that there aren't any? Jose Garcia Jul 24 #15
Competition in a sport is about winning. I think you might mean participating and not competing, but even then, sports xocetaceans Jul 23 #11
No, competition in anything is about Oeditpus Rex Jul 23 #12
As I said, you and I don't have apparently any sort of similar definition of sports or of competition. xocetaceans Jul 24 #16
If by 'earlier question' Oeditpus Rex Jul 24 #18
Unfortunately, that was a question that someone else posted. I asked if there had been any trans men who had had... xocetaceans Jul 24 #19
The article touches on this a bit Shrek Jul 24 #13
There's no such thing as "men's" sports Seeking Serenity Jul 24 #17
What about Intersex? maxsolomon Jul 23 #6
I wish I could be alive Oeditpus Rex Jul 23 #8
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