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Re:Olympic Committee Announces a Broad Ban of Transgender At... by j_w on Friday March 27, 2026 @01:19PM (#47545567)
Even if you believe that it is the case that she lived her early life as a male, at the point that a person has made it clear that they have some preferred pronoun/is trans would it not just be disrespectful to intentionally refer to them counter to that?
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Re:Olympic Committee Announces a Broad Ban of Transgender At... by dpd_dpd on Friday March 27, 2026 @02:44PM (#47546663)
If I had chosen to refer to Semenya using pronouns that imply he is female, that would have conflicted with the points I was making.
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Re:Olympic Committee Announces a Broad Ban of Transgender At... by lolc on Saturday March 28, 2026 @09:03AM (#47554227)
I don't know the specifics in this case, but they can be biologically male and use the female gender. How would that conflict your point?
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