• WrittenInRed [She/They]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    15 days ago

    I don’t really follow sports all that closely, but it looks like there probably is?

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/athletes-assigned-female-transitioned-mens-sports/

    Though honestly I can’t think of all that many mtf athletes either, it’s not like trans women are overrepresented in sports. Plus ftm athletes don’t support the narrative transphobes want to push around “men invading women’s spaces/sports” they tend to get forgotten in general, but especially in sports. There will be a lot of survivorship bias in how people perceive the success of trans athletes, any trans woman who does well will be seen as “unfair”, but any who are completely average at the sport won’t be noticed (or will be reported on misleadingly, like when Glenique Frank got 6,159th in the London Marathon and it was reported everywhere as “trans runner beats 14,000 women”). And like I said trans men already get ignored, so their inclusion in sports is definitely not being spoken about to anywhere near the same level. All of that combines to make trans women seem overrepresented in high level sports and trans men basically nonexistent but that’s not really accurate.