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24-03-2023, 03:34 AM | #1 | |||
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Makes sense. [World Athletics bans transgender women from competing in female world ranking events] [World Athletics has banned transgender women from competing in the female category at international events. The governing body's president, Lord Coe, said no transgender athlete who had gone through male puberty would be permitted to compete in female world ranking competitions from 31 March. A working group will be set up to conduct further research into the transgender eligibility guidelines. "We're not saying no forever," he said. Under previous rules, World Athletics required transgender women to reduce their amount of blood testosterone to a maximum of 5nmol/L, and stay under this threshold continuously for a period of 12 months before competing in the female category. Lord Coe added the decision was "guided by the overarching principle which is to protect the female category". He noted that there are currently no transgender athletes competing internationally in the sport.] https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/65051900 |
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24-03-2023, 06:03 AM | #2 | |||
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Will they just trust their word ?
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24-03-2023, 06:28 AM | #3 | |||
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I was on Twitter the other day and saw a boxing match - a real young woman height about 5 feet 6 and she was fighting against this bloke wearing make up and hair in a bun, probably height about 6 feet 4.
She was hammered. It was very sad to see because she looked like she had good boxing skills but this guy way was too big, massive gloves, muscles. Madness. |
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24-03-2023, 07:49 AM | #4 | |||
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The right move tbh.
Transwomen shouldn't be banned from competing full stop, that'd be unfair. But it's also unfair to allow them to compete against women. |
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24-03-2023, 08:34 AM | #5 | |||
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An open division would solve this issue
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24-03-2023, 08:49 AM | #6 | |||
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Another victory for women
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24-03-2023, 09:19 AM | #7 | |||
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self-oscillating
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i think the tide is turning
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24-03-2023, 09:36 AM | #8 | |||
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To be fair though, I don't think there's much point in a fully open division of most ports, because it would just be a second men's division at the top of the scale. Trans men are never going to be as large/strong as biological males, and trans women while they do retain unfair physical advantages over biological women, if they're on hormones, they're not going to be able to compete with men either. Especially given how many men in sports are juicing/on EXTRA testosterone "off season".
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24-03-2023, 09:46 AM | #9 | |||
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Organisations punishing a whole demographic of people because of who they are, what a wonderful world to live in
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24-03-2023, 09:46 AM | #10 | |||
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24-03-2023, 09:48 AM | #11 | |||
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Yeah because female athletes wouldn't be punished by having male born athletes compete against them?
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24-03-2023, 10:13 AM | #12 | |||
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They're not being pushed out, transwomen can still compete against other biological males
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24-03-2023, 10:32 AM | #13 | |||
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24-03-2023, 11:50 AM | #14 | |||
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1) Accept that biological differences between the sexes means we need to have segregated male and female sports 2) Deny that there are biological differences between the sexes and have all sport fall under one category (open to all) In the first option, trans women can't compete because there's an accepted biological advantage. In the second option, neither women nor trans women can compete, because of biological advantages and the disadvantaging effect of hormone therapies. male-bodied people who identify as women or non-binary could compete against men. Trans women who have transitioned medically would stand no chance at the top level. Nor would trans men. There's no option where male-bodied people competing exclusively against females is a fair or safe option. There's some junk science about checking hormone levels and that being an indicator of any advantage but it's constantly being debunked as nonsense. men are larger and stronger than women on average and have higher bone and muscle density (the difference is not small) and this isn't mitigated with hormonal therapies. Really it's just that; 1) You think inority inclusion is more iportant than fairness in sport, and 2) You don't care one bit about inclusion for biological females because you hate them and want them not to exist. Last edited by Soldier Boy; 24-03-2023 at 11:52 AM. |
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24-03-2023, 12:19 PM | #15 | ||
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Transwomen have been competing against cisgendered women in different levels of sports for a while, yet they don't dominate the field. In fact you rarely hear about trans athletes unless they win an event, in which case their win is thrown under suspicion despite the fact that they may not win well at all.
It's a Schrodinger's cat situation. It's unfair that transwomen compete against cisgender women yet this advantage they supposedly have doesn't really materialise into results much. It also reminds me of a situation that happened recently in the US on a High School's women's wrestling team, due to the change of laws pushed through by transphobes, a transman had to compete against women and photos of his domination went viral among transphobes who cried that it was unfair because they assumed he was a transwoman competing against cisgendered women, and not a trans man forced to compete against women because of a law these people pushed through. If you're going to force transwomen to compete against men, will you be happy if transmen are made to compete against women? |
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24-03-2023, 12:41 PM | #16 | |||
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As far as I know there aren't any rules specifically against performance degrading drugs, but transwomen doing so and weaken themselves is their choice. In both cases, maybe they should ask themselves if those few changes HRT grants them are really worth their sporting careers? Last edited by Oliver_W; 24-03-2023 at 12:44 PM. |
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24-03-2023, 12:46 PM | #17 | ||
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So your answer is to encourage people to detransition or lose their careers.
I'm sure that won't end tragically. |
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24-03-2023, 12:59 PM | #18 | |||
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24-03-2023, 01:06 PM | #19 | |||
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They don't have to "socially" detransition. |
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24-03-2023, 01:08 PM | #20 | |||
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It's the only sensible way forward to make it fair on everyone.
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24-03-2023, 01:19 PM | #21 | ||
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After all, like I said before, trans athletes are allowed to compete in a lot of sports, yet we have not seen a total domination by any trans athletes in the women's divisions. If transwomen have an unfair advantage, then why is it not translating to them getting better results? Forcing people to detransition or face consequences is monstrous no matter how you cut it. |
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24-03-2023, 01:24 PM | #22 | |||
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Gender is a social construct, why should it overrule sex?
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24-03-2023, 01:25 PM | #23 | ||
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Funnily enough, this is going to affect female athletes like Caster Semenya too, born female, legally female, and will be treated like a man unless she chemically alters herself because of changes to the rules.
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24-03-2023, 01:26 PM | #24 | ||
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24-03-2023, 01:33 PM | #25 | |||
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Are you making things up again, or do you have a source to demonstrate what you're saying?
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