Transgender Q: Should I forfeit?

looking for advice wrote:

I'm in a team sport. Not running, but one which PEDs would be a clear benefit to.

On my team is a person who started life female and switched to male. This person is post-op and hairy. You wouldn't guess the female origins.

This person, as I understand it, is probably on testosterone. But not necessarily. No way am I going to ask.

So I am on a team with a person on T, and I am benefitting from it.

We are terrible as a team and never win anything, but we do compete against other teams in a losing fashion.

This is starting to bother me, but the coach would be completely horrified if I said or did anything. She's all-in for LGBT etc issues.

Do I have any fair sport/ethics issues here?

No, you do not. Carry on.

0/10

Female to male means the effect is negligible. Stop being a transphobe.

looking for advice wrote:

So I am on a team with a person on T, and I am benefitting from it.

In other words, "my transgender teammate is faster than me, and I'm hiding my shame of losing to him by pretending to have serious fair sport concerns."

Maybe if you did some real training instead of your typical baby mileage, you could focus on more important things.

Are they cute? Any pics before transitioning?

the person is on testosterone and would fail a drugs test. Not that there ever will be one.

but ok, good.

Truth teller man wrote:

Female to male means the effect is negligible. Stop being a transphobe.

Female to male means she's a drug cheat.

Taking hormones as a 15-year-old is barbaric.

Considering 60-90% of teenage transgenders "outgrow" the phase as adults, parents are child abusers for enabling it.

Jesus wasn't a real man, just a Hipster Doofus, I guess.

looking for advice wrote:

I'm in a team sport. Not running, but one which PEDs would be a clear benefit to.

On my team is a person who started life female and switched to male. This person is post-op and hairy. You wouldn't guess the female origins.

This person, as I understand it, is probably on testosterone. But not necessarily. No way am I going to ask.

So I am on a team with a person on T, and I am benefitting from it.

We are terrible as a team and never win anything, but we do compete against other teams in a losing fashion.

This is starting to bother me, but the coach would be completely horrified if I said or did anything. She's all-in for LGBT etc issues.

Do I have any fair sport/ethics issues here?

Is your team in Berkeley?

yes

looking for advice wrote:

the person is on testosterone and would fail a drugs test. Not that there ever will be one.

but ok, good.

Because you're engaged in a competition that doesn't mean very much in the scheme of things. Have some empathy for your teammate, jeez.

Pay no attention to people calling you names. You have asked a legitimate question, and one which moral people must ask in the culture we have built for ourselves. Just because the rules of political correctness stop you from asking a question out loud does not mean that the question is wrong to ask. I am not saying I have an answer, but I applaud you for asking. For what it’s worth.

I love the ‘real man’ thing. Always cracks me up.

RealWorldPeter wrote:

Truth teller man wrote:

Female to male means the effect is negligible. Stop being a transphobe.

Female to male means she's a drug cheat.

Taking hormones as a 15-year-old is barbaric.

Considering 60-90% of teenage transgenders "outgrow" the phase as adults, parents are child abusers for enabling it.

Liberals don’t want children torn from their families, unless of course the child has gender dysphoria and their parents would prefer to seek counseling over pumping the kid full of hormones. Then they are more than happy for your child to become a ward of the state.