you’re saying it’s cool to criticize physical aspects of a person over which they only have so much control?

When that person's famous for actively pushing transphobic policies by pretending they're a top athlete? Yes. Nothing wrong with not being the very best. I certainly am not at anything.

Again you keep saying physical aspects as if someone's athletic performance is something they're born with. A person's performance on a field of play or what have you is not something they're given at Birth. It's an extremely ignorant thing to say. Those four swimmers that beat her didn't beat her because they were predestined to, they beat her because they put in the work. They beat her because they had the mental drive and physical dedication to work harder than she did. Maybe if she didn't spend so much time thinking about how much she hated transsexual people how much she wanted them exterminated and how easy it would be to grift conservative morons she would have done better. Although to be fair I thought about that last for a few times myself.

I've seen some lazy sea lion performances in my day, but this is might take the cake.

Seriously? We're in a trans community, and you're saying it's cool to criticize physical aspects of a person over which they only have so much control?

That's such a dumb assertion. Sure there are some athletes that have inborn physical advantages in some sports but the vast majority of athletes are just regular people that train very hard. Also even those innate physical advantages will not make it a guarantee that someone wins in that sport, they still need to put in the work in training before they can take advantage of them.

For example, even though Michael Phelps has a longer than average arm span that doesn't mean he can jump in the water with no training and win the Olympics. The man wouldn't have gotten all those medals if he didn't train constantly since he was 11.

Look, you're in the wrong. Learn and grow from it. Or at least try.

If someone doesn't know what the issue is about, why does their opinion matter?

This is the internet, literally anything can be misconstrued. Someone on here called me a nazi yesterday. If you check my modlog I was banned from a community for fascism.

Criticizing a valid, informed statement about an issue that's challenging people's identities because of how it might appear is like clutching pearls while your house is on fire.

Paradox of Tolerance.

If you play in competitive sports publicly, you are openly allowing people to criticize your performance in said sport.

That is quite literally how competitive sports work.

You take the high road. I'll take the low.