This meme is way less impressive for someone living in Europe. Ryanair will take to to either for like 19 euros.
Next you’re going to say insulin is only €10
No, that’s a university semester, insulin is 5€.
Jokes aside, for the 'muricans here, a semester in Germany is ~300€, so about 1800€ for a bachelors degree.
Insulin is free of course, or rather included in the public healthcare
So much? It was 42€ a semester last I looked. Do the 300€ include a public transport ticket for the semester or something like that?
Oh yes it includes the Deutschlandticket
Jesus, Mr. Oxford over here. Here in my part of Europe, they pay you a six-figure salary to attend university. It’s unheard of to pay for it yourself. Must be some school.
Sure they can. But with the boys.
Truth sucks.
Forcing a girl to play against boys and use their changing room is pretty fucked up dude. Don’t make yourself look even more like a dick.
Nobody is forcing anyone. But saying they can’t play badminton because they are trans is false.
Oh, right! They can just stop doing what they love! I’m sorry, my empathy-riddled ass didn’t think about this obvious solution.
No? They can play with the boys. Changing rooms can be arranged. Why is it important for a trans-girl who went through male puberty to play with girls that are smaller and physically weaker?
I should probably clarify that i mean compete in competitions, dont care in the slightest who or how they want to practice. That’s just fair.
Its important for the same reason gays and leabians want proper marriages and not just civil unions. There is social legitamacy that comes from inclusion. I have also never seen a single study actually backing up this unfair advantage narrative.
Meanwhile, the WNBA has an average player height of 6’1" against the average womans height of 5’4". But noone complains about a cis woman whos 6 foot having an unfair advantage. Meanwhile even cis women get caught in the crossfire, see Imane Khalif who could be executed in her home country for being trans. She’s not, but one salty boxer and a fraudulent Russian report gave her all sorts of shit and put her life in danger.
I see, so it’s an information problem.
Trans girls are not stronger than other girls. Any increased muscle mass vanishes with hormone therapy as the testosterone supporting it goes away. Likewise the body remodels stuff like cartilages as all of this is influenced by hormones. That’s why Olympia goes so overboard with hormone tests, even forcing cis-women to do invasive measures to reduce their natural testosterone levels.
The only difference caused by puberty that are irreversible are:
- How thick bones are & how they formed
- How you sound
- Where you grow how much hair
And of those three ONLY the first can be of any value in any argument. And definitely not for badminton. Uninformed bullshit arguments cause WAY more problems for cis-women in sports than they could ever solve. There’s nothing fair about that way of arguing.
How would you propose women prove they are not trans and can thus play on the women’s team?
Loving all your truthful examples and sources!
lol. the claim was that transwomen aren’t allowed to play, period. Not true, they might not be allowed to compete against women, but open category (mens) is open for all.
Here is one example: https://www.badmintonengland.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Participation-in-Badminton-by-Transgender-and-Non-binary-Players-Policy-–-Frequently-Asked-Questions-FAQs.pdf
Who can compete within the open category?
All players can play within the open category. This includes, players assigned male at birth, players assigned female at birth, transgender males, transgender females, and non-binary players.
If trans women have to play with the boys, then cis women should, too. Just end segregation entirely.
That’s definitely one way of making sure that a woman will never win again in athletics.
They did do that in golf, of course with handicaps like a shorter tee off for women, so not a fair competition.
You’re saying that even the weakest biologically male athlete could beat the strongest biologically female athlete?
Because otherwise, “never win again” seems kind of unlikely.
My god what an asenine take.
No, but no woman would ever win with the best from both genders attending.
I don’t think you could even qualify for the mens qualifiers in athletics with the world records for women.
yeahhhhh… hasanabi was right, targeting trans sports was the easiest and dirtiest way to bring transphobia to the normies. people that don’t even give a shit about politics and don’t think about trans people one way or another can say “well at least sports are fair now”
Trans sports is where the boundaries between what people do with their own body is crossed into interaction with others. This is why it has become the favorite point to attack for conservatives.
So I work on a military base in a building with less than 5,000 people, of which three have confided to me that they are trans and wanted someone to talk to and I have a niece that is trans. I have a hard time believing only 1 trans person per state has a desire to play sports with my completely anecdotal evidence. I don’t know what the real numbers are and I get that it isn’t the point but I don’t think it’s effective to diminish the number of trans folks that there are. I’m very confident anyone not living under a rock knows and is likely at minimum a friendly acquaintance with at least one trans person, whether they are aware of that fact or not.
Fake. CEO’s aight choosing shit. They’re going to Paris and Barcelona
You might not have to pay $.02 in taxes every year to accommodate transgender prisoners, but at least egg prices are down…right?
…right?
Oh my God. Eggs are expensive because people aren’t buying them!
Ye olde inverted supply and demand, just like my econ professor taught me
Idk what could possibly be causing a supply problem, all the chickens in the country are as healthy as can be.
The DOGE said so.
Badminton is criminally underrated
It might have better PR if they renamed it to “Goodminton.”
They really bury the lede with the whole “shuttlecock” thing. When I learned that shit, it gave it an immediate boost in my teenage brain lol
I prefer squash.
pfft, squash has nothing on pumpkin
G O U R D S
You’re only deciding between insulin and groceries because the government maintains some company’s monopoly on manufacturing insulin.
In an actually free market, the instructions would be open source and the only question would be whether to synthesize it at home or pay someone else to synthesize it for you.
My guess is it would cost about as much as chocolate does per unit mass.
In a “true free market” the instructions would be hoarded by the company that came up with them and the insulin would be sold for as much as humanly possible. The only countries that don’t suffer from this issue are the ones where the government is handling Healthcare and dictates what it’s willing to pay for medicine.
You anti government regulation types sure as fuck don’t seem to understand how we got to having all these regulations. Hint it was companies abusing their customers and employees to the point where tens of thousands of people were dying, for each regulation.
Is how to manufacture insulin a trade secret? Is that why there’s no black market for it?
Those are two nonequivalent industries with wildly different variables of influence. Did AI write this?
Yeah I know. One of the big differences between prescription drugs and food, in terms of the industries, is that anyone can bake bread and therefore the only reason to buy it at the store is if the loaf at the store costs less time and energy than making it oneself.
A better equivalency would be the insulin industry and a Diamond industry unrestricted by region.
Not really because people can die without food, and also without insulin. Nobody is choosing between diamonds and insulin.
Insulin is expensive because of a government-enforced monopoly. It’s a simple fact, no matter how motivated one is to ignore it.
What you’re describing is to abolish “intellectual property” rights. I’m all for it.
Why does badminton even need to be separated it’s not a strength contest
Trans women also got banned in chess. https://www.npr.org/2023/08/18/1194593562/chess-transgender-fide-pushback
So men don’t have to be embarrassed from being beaten by a woman.
Idk man when I see professional badminton they are smacking the fuck out of the cock
Because some people view Men’s sports as professional, and a career opportunity. Women’s sports on the other hand are seen by those people as recreational, and something fun to do outside of the house.
Who would put a professional player against a recreational player? That’s just not fair, the recreational player would be embarrassed at how bad they are and it wouldn’t be fun to watch.
Obviously nothing I said is true but it’s an opinion held by many.
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Yeah CEO’s and shareholders are driving it to the extreme, but in the end everybody wants their interest on savings/investments, their yearly wage increases etc. The whole economic system is at fault and America is driving it to the extreme.
Holy shit, insulin is ~$98 on average over there!?
That is literally the most expensive place to buy insulin on this planet.
Most countries have insulin available for ~1/5th that price or less, with many selling it for less than 1/10th of the US price.I knew it was bad over there but that’s fucking atrocious.
At least you’re more free over there than anywhere else though, right?
Right?Yeah. It’s literally against the law for Medicaid or Medicare to negotiate for lower prescription drug prices. They have the largest insurance pools, and therefore an incredible amount of leverage, but nope. Gotta pay those insurance companies!
It’s absurdly actually come down significantly in the US since 2021.
That $98 is a major improvement.
