I don't get why they don't just create a separate trans competitive category and be done with it.
(, Mon 28 Jun 2021, 22:17, Reply)
You'd need more than one.
At least 2 and probably more for those in different categories. Boxing would be a nightmare, it has enough different classes/belts already.
It'd also be a bit sad if you made them compete in their own class in things like motor racing.
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An Egg ,D, Mon 28 Jun 2021, 23:25,
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Can we put Kenyan runners in their own separate Olympics, it's not fair on white people.
(, Tue 29 Jun 2021, 9:02, Reply)
It's not the same though is it
unless you think skin whitening treatments make you run slower.
(, Tue 29 Jun 2021, 9:50, Reply)
there were a lot of theories thrown about about genetic differences that make kenyans and tanzanians made great distance runners
and then some researcher did extensive metanalysis and found they were all nonsense, they had no biological advantage that could be established with any authority . they were better because they trained harder and longer than their competitors, and showed a normal response to that training in their performance
found it
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 30 Jun 2021, 9:31,
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none really, other than it was in interesting fact
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 30 Jun 2021, 23:44,
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Yes: there is a paring problem.
If you start having categories based on people's inner sense of themselves, it's not obvious why there wouldn't be precisely as many categories as there are people in the world - which would make the whole thing a bit silly.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 29 Jun 2021, 9:33,
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So you're saying I'm a winner in my own division?
\o/
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Tue 29 Jun 2021, 10:11,
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Technically a loser also
You're the worst person in your division.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Tue 29 Jun 2021, 11:10,
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Isn't this basically what's been done in the paralympics for decades?
Classifying based on handicap seems to work. As much as I'd like to see a blind vs. deaf boxing match, it wouldn't be fair, would it?
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Tusk knows where you live, Tue 29 Jun 2021, 14:45,
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i think it must be up to the governing bodies of each sport
to make a reasonable and respectful determination whether an individual transgender woman's particular physiology gives them an advantage outside a reasonable statistical deviation from the mean.
i'm looking at you darts
(, Tue 29 Jun 2021, 5:32, Reply)