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I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
I agree with a lot of this.
However;
1. It will not head off the Trans support lobby. They are absolutely uncompromising on a trans woman is a woman.
2. Sport needs equality, but not at the expense of safety or fair competition, World Rugby use the heirarchy 1. Safety 2. Fairness 3. Inclusion - and I agree with that.
3. The power/speed difference is absolutely enormous. To put in context, the fastest female cricket bowlers in the world bowl around 71-74mph, a speed I can achieve at the age of 60 off six paces. The punch force of a boxer M v F is 160% greater.
4. Sooner or later someone will deliberately transition to lowest standard of testing in order to win money- whether it be in tennis, golf or boxing. That makes a mockery of it.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
2: I know. Hence the need for new categories until there is genuinely no difference after transitioning. Maybe in 500 years a brain transplant into another body that went through puberty in the desired gender will be possible.
3: See 2.
4: See 2
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
Won't requote....
But the issue is, that's not acceptable to those affected. At the risk of obvious punning, it's a binary option or GTFO.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
At the moment it's only the loudest most militant voices that are heard. If new categories were introduced then I think more moderate voices would come forward from both sides. Anti-Trans saying it's a good idea because it separates everyone... and the Pro Trans saying it is a start in the right direction because people can compete rather than be excluded.
I have a suspicion that there are more moderate voices than realised but they do not want to appear to be traitors to their "side" at the moment, particularly with the shit show of social media.
I have noticed that it is not usually the athletes themselves that push a binary option, it's the lobbyists and others who wouldn't get picked for their pub skittles team.
Militants at each end need to be kept out of it.
It could even happen almost as an accident. If say a suitably powerful body ruled that Transwomen are women in sports and can compete in what I will call Open Womens events, even in combat sports, then ciswomen will simply not take part. It will automatically become a Transwomen category even if the membership of that category is not limited that way by any rule.
Ciswomen will then set up a Ciswomen League instead. As long as the Open Womens category continued to exist there could be no successful challenge. Some will try of course, but it won't work.
Bring on the brain / body transplants! I quite fancy being 7ft tall when I go to a gig.
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
Would you honestly want to be as plug ugly as Chris Novaselic?
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
...and yes @guitars4you - it was great to watch Bryony Page's reaction to winning her gold. Fantastic!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/articles/c2j3jg51rg4o
Not sure there are enough facepalms available for this now...
When did the facts and the truth stop being important? When did knowing that you don't know what you're talking about stop being a thing?
I really think she's been put through the ringer for no reason. I'd say she deserves a medal just for going through this ordeal.