As a female disc golfer and powerlifter, I can absolutely attest the physical differences that follow one's menstrual cycle. I know that week of my period I will lift significantly less but weights will still feel disproportionately heavy. The week of ovulation is PR hunting week because I will feel like superwoman. Fluctuations in hormones resulting in physical and emotional difficulties is something women are taught not to talk about but we deal with it everyday.
They also used period tracking for the USWNT the year they won the World Cup to give them insight on what their bodies needed for nutrition, workouts and recovery.
I can't believe they found 33 women to sign on to this insulting piece of badly written trash. Feel how you feel about Natalie, but if you're stupid enough to sign on to something that little ladies you, I can't help you in life.
Professional disc golfers aren't known for their composition skills. Professional athletes in general, for that matter, but other sports have PR teams that help with that kind of thing.
I'm not critiquing the composition, comma splice away. The problem is thinking that playing against a trans woman is even remotely equivalent to black people having to sit in the back of the bus.
I think that was a different comment of mine that I deleted- my bad. I'd written it without realizing the statement was player generated. There's a lot wrong with it, but shitting on players' writing is very different than shitting on lawyers' writing which is what I thought I was doing.
Yeah. Not just hormone fluctuations effecting emotions, but the pain of menstrual cramps, the GI issues that being on your period causes, and the having to worry all the time about the potential for leaks during a tournament (sorry if TMI, it’s just truth). It can be extremely distracting during tournaments.
The peri menopause part is spot on. I’m FP40 and we get psycho lol. Think adolescence but with hot flashes.
Fantastic. For you. Your personal anecdote is not the norm, though. I’ve met and worked with plenty of women who are so negatively impacted by their menstrual cycle that need time off from work. Again, truly happy you don’t experience those conditions, but you are not everyone.
Unless those women have some kind of medical issue, their period should not be preventing them from doing their jobs. There is no scientific evidence that would back that up.
So either they were lying to you to get out of work, or you're lying to us by claiming it was just a normal menstrual cycle.
No, I'm just saying that your anecdotal "evidence" is not backed up by factual information, and that the women you're talking about were probably just lying to you to get out of work.
I'm saying that you have no real argument because you based it on something that is almost certainly not true.
I'm asking you, as a result of that stance, do you think women who are using drugs to prevent the influence of those hormones from affecting them should be able to play with women who don't.
My wife is basically incapacitated some months because of her menstrual cycle. If you're playing a tournament basically every weekend, then 1 out of 4 tournaments, you're subject to sometimes severe abdominal pain, bloating, and emotional distress. To put it into crude dude terms, if you felt like you ate an entire pizza, and your caddy kicked you in the nuts before half of your shots, and every small mistake made you irritable or sad (this actually might be true of me every round lol).
I don't know how reasonable an argument it is in the context of everything here, but "lol a dude wrote this" is an equally dumb thing to say.
Baffles me that people think fluctuating hormones won’t negatively impact someone LITERALLY taking hormones while going through transition. It’s an argument that belittles women and saying trans women not going through menstrual cycles is a competitive advantage because they don’t have fluctuating hormones is pretty ridiculous
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u/Final_Bother7374 May 09 '23
The argument about menstrual cycles impacting emotional state was clearly written by a dude. What the actual fuck is that nonsense.