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Are transgender sports bans really about protecting women? Survey data tells a different story (theconversation.com)
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If admiration and support for female athletes drive support for prohibiting transgender women from participating in women’s sports, then those who favor Title IX should also favor bans. Instead, 43% of Title IX supporters favored restrictions, compared with 70% of Title IX opponents.

Our findings – that negative attitudes toward women and opposition to Title IX predict support for banning transgender women from sports that match their gender identity – hold even after accounting for other factors like partisanship, ideology and demographic characteristics.

The debate over transgender athletes is often framed as a matter of protecting women. Our findings complicate that narrative: People with the most negative attitudes toward women – and toward policies that protect women’s sports – are the most supportive of banning transgender women from women’s sports.

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This also necessarily incluses the associated type of insufferable man-complaining men do at man hobby gatherings about not being able to find a woman and how it is so hard blah blah blah.

Men talking to other men about men's problems that women have repeatedly said they don't care nor do they want to hear about it? Sounds pretty normal to me tbh.

The secret seems to me that in order to treat women kindly you must treat them as equals but what the hell do I know.

Actually I think it's that third places are dead besides bars, so unless you're a barfly the only place to meet NEW people now that is socially acceptable is online spyware apps owned by Match Group that have an incentive to give you bad matches and keep you paying the subscription, or (apparently) being set up by friends. And on top of that, even when I do meet a woman, not only does she have to like me, I have to like her too. I'm not so desperate as to just take the first being with a vagina who says hello to me, I'm not just looking for sex (if I was, I'd call a FWB), I want a meaningful partnership with someone who loves me and who I love back. It's not just as simple as "oh one talked to me, better have kids and settle down."

The commodification of dating really doesn't seem to be doing ANYONE any favors, but of course if you acknowledge it you're an incel (which is Match Group propaganda, btw, people other than incels can be upset at being treated like a product too.)

(Btw I know I didn't mention the actual article and only talked about the digressions in your comment that I had something to say about, so just for reference: idgaf about trans people in women's sports, I neither watch sports nor bet on them, not my chair not my problem.)

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