First olympic transgender athlete to compete at Tokyo 2020 **MOD NOTE IN OP**

Nozebleed wrote: »

saddest thing about this is Women don't have the balls to boycott the event.

One has ....

Vestiapx wrote: »

That guy is misgendering. Misgendering is disgusting. This is really a case of don't blame the player blame the game so if the Olympics allow transgender athletes then it's not a case of this lifter taking someones spot it's simply her spot.
If the Olympics ban transgender athletes the repercussions are large. However it should simply be a matter of making the athletes pass a level of male hormones that is less than double the largest of non transgender athletes. Currently the levels of test allowed is many multiples of this.

Ehh it is too late to base this on the current level of male hormones.
They could have zero testosterone and it wouldn't matter a fook.

The benefits and unfair advantages were achieved when they went through puberty.


And womens sport is finished if this farce is allowed.

Really one has to ask how many countries in the Olympic movement give a rats ass about transgenderism ?

Oh yeah the Western countries with all their liberals and cause celebre munching twitter heads setting the discourse do, but seriously how many people in most of the world are worried about transgender athletes ?

BluePlanet wrote: »

But the thing is, Sport is just entertainment.
It should serve a societal good, not create and copperfasten injustices.

It's not all that different to the arguments that people made to keep black athletes out of sport.
By segregating women in this way, you are supporting the idea that they are inferior or something. It becomes rational to pay them less because they don't capture as much viewership etc

However, say in football, if every team was composed of an equal number of men and women, all paid nearly the same. Well that would open a lot of opportunity to women athletes, and would also put immense pressure on countries that are more sexist.

What a load of bollox.

I can understand how some people may not get sport.
Fine.
But how the fook people in this day and age don't get simple biology is beyond me.

I don't know, but at times it looks like the more developed we get, especially in what we term the Western world, the fooking stupider we seem to be getting.

Shield wrote: »

For those asking why this decision is unfair to biological women, here's a helpful visual of Hubbard's previous winning margins and the probability statistic of this ever occurring...

You could argue the women's event is beginning to follow an exponential trend :pac:

Shield wrote: »

For those asking why this decision is unfair to biological women, here's a helpful visual of Hubbard's previous winning margins and the probability statistic of this ever occurring...

One thing that I think is being insidiously introduced into the modern lexicon is this term "biological women" and "cis women" to describe what we have been terming women for millenia.

Why should a female born woman have to have anything added on to their gender description just so a tiny percentage of people who now identify as a woman are accommodated.

To me it is as ludicrous as the drive by some numpties to demand that it is no longer pregnant women, but pregnant people.

All because a few people got pregnant as women, but now identify as something else post conception.

Now I await the flak from the progressives who will label me all sorts, but frankly being honest I couldn't give a rats ass.

[Deleted User] wrote: »

This is not the first olympic transgender. Stanislawa Walasiewicz won gold for Poland in 1932.

It was not discovered that she was male until after her death, during the autopsy. Although looking at pictures of her, it looks pretty obvious.

It appears that Stanislawa Walasiewicz was Intersex not transgender. She had a chromosomal disorder.

Laurenf35 wrote: »

So men are better than us at sports
Then we have to train harder to beat the patriarchy

You could start your Matreon campaign to fund this.

Deleted User wrote: »

Allowing biological men to compete with women is as absurd as allowing under 12's compete with a senior team.

Makes a mockery of the whole sport.

Same idiots advocating for this will also be the ones complaining about the gender pay gap.

Similar to the under 15s boys playing the USA womens team? In fairness, if the team fills up with trans women, they won't be beaten by the boys club again so easily.

kildare lad wrote: »

The same people who slam climate deniers for not listening to the science on climate change , seem perfectly fine changing science when it comes to biology

I believe in climate change.
I don't believe there is a gender pay gap though.
Follow the science

I support trans people and their right to live their lives how they wish.
On most issues I would probably be on the liberal side but Trans women competing in Women's sport is just simply unfair.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2021/jun/22/by-conflating-gender-and-sex-we-undermine-sporting-competition

This is a good article from of all places the Guardian, supporting this view.

Lurleen wrote: »

Not just quiet. Downright throwing women under a bus. The cognitive dissonance is quite amazing - particularly when they start using insults

Agreed.

Even that case there where the female MMA fighter gets a skull fracture in a match. They couldn't give a f*ck about her. I think it exposes how they really feel about women.

Deleted User wrote: »

Sadly, I don't think it's how little they care about women, I think it's how little they understand that biological men aren't the same as women.

I think that'd be better than them being heartless. Instead it's just down to stupidity or being uneducated.

I would absolutely love to see the other entrants make a stand on this matter and refuse to compete. Default award the gold to this individual to highlight the ridiculousness of the whole thing.