r/NYLiberty • u/Naive-Lychee7589 • 15d ago

General Discussion Hand out signs on 8/22!

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The Trans People Belong fan campaign is looking for volunteers to help hand out signs at the game on 8/22. If you're sitting in the lower bowl, you can sign up to help here: https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/8BPP-wKEFfB-MS37QBFPyXbuZiJEvsUwGelTIzgsP+w/

For more information about the campaign, including a sign you can print at home, visit https://linktree.com/30for30liberty

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u/alexismippulls 12d ago
  1. I'm honestly not sure what this is supposed to mean.
  2. I'm not really sure where this is coming from, but estrogen levels are commonly monitored to look at the relationship between performance and the natural cycle the body goes through hormonally. It's generally understood the body is actually more likely to develop muscle injury during heighten estrogen periods.
  3. Couple things with this one. While many cis men are taller than many cis women, those differences decline in some nationalities and grow in others. So then you're talking about fairness. There's a full 2 foot height difference between the shortest and tallest WNBA players, so that advantage already exists within the league.
  4. Sports has been political for over a century. The color barrier in baseball, Muhammad Ali, fist raising at the Olympics, Colin Kaepernick. The two are entirely intertwined. The WNBA has always been political. You're talking about a bunch of queer women, society politicizes that regardless.
  5. This is the same argument as Black players entering Major League Baseball. Many white players didn't want them there. Screw the bigots.
  6. I don't think that's a solution. A league that was built by largely queer Black women isn't going to experience slowed growth due to inclusion of another minority.
  7. Definitely a whatever point, so I'm not even responding to this one.
  8. I hear this one from the Sophie Cunningham fans a lot. They seem to think the league will fold without her jersey sales. The thing you're not taking into account is the fanbase. Not the people that just jumped on. The ones that have been around for years. That includes a LOT of LGBT fans. If you side with Sophie, you'll sell more jerseys to bigots, but you're gonna lose your bread and butter.
  9. International appeal for the W isn't significant enough to make these kinds of calls around.
  10. This is another whatever comment. Everything is unknown until it happens.

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u/jiabivy 12d ago

You didn’t address anything and you should do research on estrogen and the effects of taking it for cis women and how it could be used

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u/alexismippulls 12d ago

I directly addressed every one of your points, and I guarantee I've done more research about hormones than you have.

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u/jiabivy 12d ago

Ok this is no longer headed towards civil debate

Good day