RainaLillius

"Do trans women generally have a physical advantage over women?"

No. Trans women were able to complete in the Olympics beginning in 2004. No trans woman has won an Olympic medal in the woman's category.

There are many studies that compare cis men to cis women and based on that claim trans women have an advantage. Among the studies that actually compare trans women to cis women it is generally found that trans women have no overall advantage.

"Are there any rules for this kind of thing? Do they need to be transitioning or taking suppression drugs?"

The rules and requirements vary by league. At higher levels of competition its generally required to have hormone levels at cis female levels for a prolonged period. Often 6 months or longer. To clarify, getting to those levels roughly takes 2+ years of hormone replacement therapy(hrt). Hrt for trans women generally consist of an anti-androgen, estradiol, and progesterone.

No, it says the used "homophobic slurs".

From this article https://abc7chicago.com/post/kady-grass-injured-knocked-unconscious-allegedly-homophobic-mcdonalds-attack-carpentersville-illinois/16474284/

"One of them called me a ***. I was very upset at that," Grass said.

What 3 letter homophobic slur do you think John Kammrad, the adult attacker, and his juvenile accomplice called her? I can only think of one, and it's not one that is used against cis women...

From another article https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/kane-county-prosecutors-hate-crime-investigation-mcdonalds-attack-carpentersville/

_Police arrested 19-year-old John Kammrad and a 17-year-old boy, and they both face several charges, including aggravated battery.

Grass has said she went to the McDonald's in Carpentersville with her 13-year-old cousin after his choir concert. A group of strangers started harassing her and using anti-gay slurs as she left the restroom.

When she walked away, she said they followed. She told the strangers she is a lesbian and flicked her wrist at them.

"How it started was because I'm a lesbian — just because I walked into the woman's bathroom, and I looked the way I look," Grass said._

She attempted to get rid of the people following her by informing them she was a lesbian. The only context that makes sense is if they accused her of being trans...

I'm not sure why you assume it's one or the other. My money is on both. Probably has a whole library to choose from...

Yea, I'm pretty sure we see things that most people are blind to. A side effect or our own self criticism. It's like you see dozens of tiny cues, all of witch are also common in cis women, but the right combination of cues will trigger my spidey sense.

I don't think it's something that can be learned. But even if I could teach it, I wouldn't. With great power and all that..

But, there are many more trans people than attacks on suspected trans people. It really feels like they are bad at identifying trans people

You're not wrong, but there are trans people out there. I'm a trans woman myself and I cross paths with other trans people fairly often in the wild, so to speak. So it is a bit intresting that transphobes fail so hard at clocking us. Granted as a trans person myself I may be better at identifying trans people.

Although most trans people I've met are very self conscious about their appearance. So many of us don't stop using the bathroom of our birth sex until doing so becomes an issue. Usually well meaning people clocking us as our preferred gender and telling us we are in the wrong bathroom, or just making it very clear that our presence confused them. I've heard versions of this story from so many trans people. "This is when I knew it was time to switch bathrooms" is basically trope in trans spaces...

I suspect they keep attacking cis women because cis women feel comfortable using the women's restroom. Even if their appearance is outside the societal norm.

I suspect it includes that as an explanation for her masculine haircut. And to clarify that she is, infact, not trans. Should any of that matter? It clearly did to the people who assaulted her. The inclusion is probably meant to make hateful people think twice in an effort to stem the violence.

The rate of hate crimes does go up when you have a hate monger in office. There was a spike in his last term and there will be this time also.

Redit is highly compromised. I got a warning for threatening violence. My comment something to the affect of "this person should be charged with treason."

They are weeding out anyone who is pushing for action. Step one at this point is to reorganize. Redit has killed 50501

People are exhausted. The protest have had little traction, the media barely covered them and downplayed them when they did. We played by the rules and got protest approved, we were non disruptive, made it easy to ignore us. If we want to have any affect we need to take cues from the French. We need to be disruptive we need to break the systems. But doing this will have a cost, there will be violence from police, there will be jail. Until more people are willing to pay that price we are just treating water, sadly.

Weird how these transphobes never seem to find an actual trans person.

Trans rights are human rights! Everyone is harmed by blind hatred..

Aah, you're getting with the crazy ones. Honestly don't know if I'm just lucky or a good judge of character. Maybe I'm just old...