I agree that trans athletes in women's sport is highly problematic and needs to be addressed, but stuff like this moves us backward into culture war rather than solutions.
What a fantastic troll job! Presumably, all the people down-voting the OP agree with the trans movement, which is what the article says they now support. So you have been goaded into down voting an article that you agree with! Its wonderful!
This is why we can't let Liberals kill humor. Its does so much more important than provide some laughs.
At this point they are the drunk uncle telling racist jokes at the BBQ and not realizing how out of touch and unfunny they are.
Look at all the brainwashed college students defending madness here it’s insane. If you think that men should be able to compete against women then you don’t have children. You’ve never seen a group of five year old boys demolish an equivalently skilled group of seven year old girls in a soccer pickup game. It is a cruelty to women to allow men to compete against them in serious competition. The brojos are speaking truth through satire. Unfortunately the average audience of letsrun is college aged woke kids.
What you got wrong is that transgender people need to be treated with respect. They are an oppressed minority and this type of callous joking is piling on and making it harder for them to gain the respect they deserve.
What a fantastic troll job! Presumably, all the people down-voting the OP agree with the trans movement, which is what the article says they now support. So you have been goaded into down voting an article that you agree with! Its wonderful!
This is why we can't let Liberals kill humor. Its does so much more important than provide some laughs.
Insulting an oppressed minority isn’t humor, it is bullying, overt fascism.
What a fantastic troll job! Presumably, all the people down-voting the OP agree with the trans movement, which is what the article says they now support. So you have been goaded into down voting an article that you agree with! Its wonderful!
This is why we can't let Liberals kill humor. Its does so much more important than provide some laughs.
Insulting an oppressed minority isn’t humor, it is bullying, overt fascism.
Despite the negative comments here, I thought the article was hilarious. I look forward to April 1st every year, always love to see what you come up with.
Then party-poopers start in the very first post making sure they point out that they know it's an April fool's joke. Duh. Let the joke have some space before you poop on it.
Then the same tired arguments.
Sheesh. What a bunch of grumpy, unpleasant people.
What you got wrong is that transgender people need to be treated with respect. They are an oppressed minority and this type of callous joking is piling on and making it harder for them to gain the respect they deserve.
Thus is fine - be trans, "God speed" -- just don't play sports against girls - women or expect the same consideration for all the travails bio women suffer.
Oh wait wait -- tell me about the trans "woman" and her fibroids, what happened there, hope she's ok?
I don't understand the obsession the site owners have with this topic. It's not from an endearing love and respect for the sanctity of female athletics. It's something else, and it's getting weird and ugly. Thanks, brothers. I think my time at letsrun needs to be over.
We weren't out to win a popularity contest with the article.
That's never been the point with LetsRun. If so we'd never say anything critical about anything which actually is how some of the running media works.
As it's written now it's really directed to the people who will read it and think we're serious in the article. I'd say 80-90% of people understand once you discuss it with them that transgender women have an unfair advantage especially if they don't suppress their testosterone.
For an April Fools article there was a decent amount of internal debate on it. At one point it was pretty hilarious, but some felt the jokes were too much even though we had the wife of the most liberal member of our team laughing at one of them which never made it to print. At one point, some felt everything was tied too directly to Lia Thomas, who we have sympathy for as a person. So that angle and some of the jokes were removed. Perhaps we should have stuck with the humor angle as people who are going to be offended are going to be offended no matter what we wrote on this subject and humor sometimes is the best way to get a point across, but internally some were really against it so it came to be how it is now.
It's now more directed at someone who will read the article and believe it and then start wondering if we're serious.
Then there was talk of going to some headline like "Scientists Confirm That Going from 554 Place Competing Against Men to Winning National Title Does Not Constitute an Unfair Advantage." Perhaps could have that and the same article we have now but we were editing article after we had the piece framed as an editorial mea culpa.