Looking for trans people in the bushes with a magnifying glass.

  • woodenghost [comrade/them]
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    655 days ago

    All these fears are completely unfounded and ridiculous, but you know what? If I had a button to press for trans liberation, but it actually somehow meant destroying every organized sports competition on the planet forever, I wouldn’t hesitate for one microsecond to press it.

  • Babs [she/her]
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    775 days ago

    I posted about this in the mega, but yeah the fencing community is actually super welcoming to trans athletes and most lower level competitions are coed because sex differences are so minor in the sport. In fact, this transphobe very recently competed in a mixed competition where she went against men! She didn’t seem to have any problem with it then.

    Also, getting all the way on to the piste before refusing to bout is such a pathetic move. Absolutely deserved the black card.

    • WoodScientist [she/her]
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      355 days ago

      Grifters gonna grift. My guess is she decided she wasn’t ever going to be able to make a living as a fencer, and her other career prospects aren’t looking great. So she decides to make a buck by becoming a right wing commenter/grifter. She happened to be paired against a trans woman in a competition and saw it as her chance to make a buck and launch an influencer career.

      • Babs [she/her]
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        205 days ago

        Yeah, she was in her 30s which isn’t too old to enjoy this wonderful sport of physical chess, but definitely too old to be an Olympic superstar.

    • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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      325 days ago

      geordi-no Splitting fencers up by gender

      geordi-yes Splitting fencers up by height and arm reach length

      Granted I’ve never paid too much attention to professional fencing so I have no idea if those factors are as dominant there as they were in the amateur stuff I did a while back

      • Babs [she/her]
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        305 days ago

        Even reach is only part of the equation. Tall dudes have more surface area you can poke, while fencing a tiny woman can be like trying to swat a fly.

        • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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          135 days ago

          I remember fencing a short woman. What was normally a shot to someone’s heart was my stabbing her mask. Not a legal shot in foil fencing, to be sure.

          I did a lot of apologizing whenever we matched up.

    • dannoffs [he/him]
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      235 days ago

      I found the tournament results, I’m not going to put her on blast but it’s fair to say the trans athlete did not have some sort of advantage.

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        Yeah. Middle of the road, lost fair and square to several cis women who weren’t whiny transphobes.

        Trans women actually do have one distinct advantage though - we can shoot lasers out of the sword if we swing it while at full health. So in order to compete fairly we actually willingly take half a heart of damage beforehand.

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            Your eyes are fine… Your brain is still trying to figure out if they can shoot lazers from their eyes or if it is a joke.

  • Sulv [he/him, undecided]
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    545 days ago

    The Associated Press is not identifying Turner’s opponent

    Rare AP W.

    No matter who this person is, identifying them would just unleash a storm of harrassment.

    • sweatersocialist [comrade/them]
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      114 days ago

      after this stunt she’s never gonna have to fence again. she’s just gonna get koch bucks to go on fox news and cry about how she was “fenced out of her sport by transthletes”

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    254 days ago

    What a joke. Fencing is one of those sports where separating them by height or skill level is actually achievable because the differences between the sexes is nonexistent.

    This is like that story a while back about a chess player throwing a fit over a trans player. Complete cope for why they’re mid at the sport.

  • rootsbreadandmakka [he/him]
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    155 days ago

    took a knee

    God these people are embarrassing. Unless that has some significance in fencing. In which case these people are still embarrassing but not for the reasons stated

    • @Detectorist@lemmygrad.ml
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      54 days ago

      That’s what a disc golfer did yesterday. Made more hate money from the GoFundMe than they won all last year, by a multiple of three. Just cringe-cis things.