Female athletes losing en masse to 'women who were once men'
Important issue or simple bigotry?
( , Mon 27 Mar 2017, 17:23, Share, Reply)
Important issue or simple bigotry?
( , Mon 27 Mar 2017, 17:23, Share, Reply)
Hey, watch your mouth!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OncLZnWtuSw
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=OncLZnWtuSw
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I'm absolutely for LGBT rights
Everyone is equal, no prejudice, etc.
However, I think the only exception should be in sports. Men who have the op and compete in women's sport have a clear unfair advantage. If I were a woman in that picture and had trained all my life I'd be pissed.
( , Mon 27 Mar 2017, 17:44, Share, Reply)
Everyone is equal, no prejudice, etc.
However, I think the only exception should be in sports. Men who have the op and compete in women's sport have a clear unfair advantage. If I were a woman in that picture and had trained all my life I'd be pissed.
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Evil hate criminal!
You keep your vile, bile-filled hate speech off /links; this is a safe space.
( , Mon 27 Mar 2017, 18:21, Share, Reply)
You keep your vile, bile-filled hate speech off /links; this is a safe space.
( , Mon 27 Mar 2017, 18:21, Share, Reply)
This whole subject alters my adolescent fantasies of spying on the girls' locker room shower.
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( , Mon 27 Mar 2017, 18:53, Share, Reply)
But imagine how it would be if you were the tall woman and you were forced to play alongside men.
Pretty demeaning for someone who has (more than likely) battled their way through quite a bit both from within and without.
You're not going to satisfy everyone either way.
( , Mon 27 Mar 2017, 21:13, Share, Reply)
Pretty demeaning for someone who has (more than likely) battled their way through quite a bit both from within and without.
You're not going to satisfy everyone either way.
( , Mon 27 Mar 2017, 21:13, Share, Reply)
Perhaps more demeaning for someone who has (more than likely) battled their way through quite a bit both from within and without and now has to compete against people who are biologically stronger than them.
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( , Mon 27 Mar 2017, 21:42, Share, Reply)
Perhaps.
As I say, you're going to annoy people either way.
I've often wondered, when it comes to transgender people, which gender gives them more hassle.
( , Mon 27 Mar 2017, 22:24, Share, Reply)
As I say, you're going to annoy people either way.
I've often wondered, when it comes to transgender people, which gender gives them more hassle.
( , Mon 27 Mar 2017, 22:24, Share, Reply)
You know what
they are probably doing the wrong thing. You don't spend your entire life doing something you feel really awkward and out of place for intentionally, surely? Fucking do something else, the sport shouldn't be molded around the gender anxieties of some genetically confused people.
( , Tue 28 Mar 2017, 10:07, Share, Reply)
they are probably doing the wrong thing. You don't spend your entire life doing something you feel really awkward and out of place for intentionally, surely? Fucking do something else, the sport shouldn't be molded around the gender anxieties of some genetically confused people.
( , Tue 28 Mar 2017, 10:07, Share, Reply)
What would you do for people whose sex is not clearly defined?
www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/magazine/the-humiliating-practice-of-sex-testing-female-athletes.html
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www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/magazine/the-humiliating-practice-of-sex-testing-female-athletes.html
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It's just sports, who cares?
I think there's bigger inequality hurdles to focus on before we look at trivial games.
( , Mon 27 Mar 2017, 17:53, Share, Reply)
I think there's bigger inequality hurdles to focus on before we look at trivial games.
( , Mon 27 Mar 2017, 17:53, Share, Reply)
Which hurdles? And sports is a multi billion dollar industry
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Methinks It'd take more than being born with a willy to clear a hurdle that big.
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Why do we have women only competitions anyway?
Perhaps all sports should be open to all entrants irrespective of gender. I realise those with a Y chromosome would pretty much win everything, but isn't that equality?
Oh, and the same should hold true for the paralympics natch.
( , Mon 27 Mar 2017, 20:04, Share, Reply)
Perhaps all sports should be open to all entrants irrespective of gender. I realise those with a Y chromosome would pretty much win everything, but isn't that equality?
Oh, and the same should hold true for the paralympics natch.
( , Mon 27 Mar 2017, 20:04, Share, Reply)
I think we should just put everyone into appropriate categories.
E.g. we should test how fast our sprinters are, then make sure only people who can run exactly as fast as each other are allowed to compete against each other.
Maybe this is the human race's opportunity to examine the whole concept of competitive sports and conclude they're much less important, sensible or interesting than we had previously realised.
( , Mon 27 Mar 2017, 20:36, Share, Reply)
E.g. we should test how fast our sprinters are, then make sure only people who can run exactly as fast as each other are allowed to compete against each other.
Maybe this is the human race's opportunity to examine the whole concept of competitive sports and conclude they're much less important, sensible or interesting than we had previously realised.
( , Mon 27 Mar 2017, 20:36, Share, Reply)
competition has value in itself
though categories give it meaning
( , Mon 27 Mar 2017, 22:29, Share, Reply)
though categories give it meaning
( , Mon 27 Mar 2017, 22:29, Share, Reply)
Can you imagine mixed gender Rugby? Even if players were categorised by weight/height/speed...it would be carnage.
( , Tue 28 Mar 2017, 11:26, Share, Reply)
We were told that Pete Steele out of Type O Negative died.
Looks like they LIED to us.
:(
( , Mon 27 Mar 2017, 20:20, Share, Reply)
Looks like they LIED to us.
:(
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If the only way they can maintain their gender is through chemicals
Then I'd say it's just another form of doping to be the best in that category.
( , Mon 27 Mar 2017, 22:15, Share, Reply)
Then I'd say it's just another form of doping to be the best in that category.
( , Mon 27 Mar 2017, 22:15, Share, Reply)
Madness
I identify as a 4 year old girl. I have won the bean bag race at sports day every year for the past 10 years.
( , Tue 28 Mar 2017, 8:38, Share, Reply)
I identify as a 4 year old girl. I have won the bean bag race at sports day every year for the past 10 years.
( , Tue 28 Mar 2017, 8:38, Share, Reply)
*puts on fur coat and floppy ears*
*Wins Crufts best of breed*
( , Tue 28 Mar 2017, 8:58, Share, Reply)
*Wins Crufts best of breed*
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