Men in women's sports, and trans women in women's sports, are two different things.
To you, men in women’s sports & trans women in women’s sports are to different things. Are they two different things to the women in those sports?
Trans women aren’t men to you, but they aren’t necessarily woman either just because they say they are. To the woman powerlifters, what’s the difference between Anne Andres & Avi Silverberg? I’m assuming not much if anything physically anyway. Respect wise, I think there’s a big difference, but physically to the woman competing in that sport…not much at all.
My opinion? All the Trans issue is based on misogyny. It is bigotry regardless. As for on whose part, that depends.
Here we do sort of agree. Specifically regarding woman’s athletes in woman’s sports, you see Lia Thomas (for example) as the victim if Lia isn’t allowed to compete or shower with the women, & I see the rest of the team as the victim for being forced to compete with a man in a woman’s swimsuit, then the whole change room fiasco and then being threatened to shut up and deal with it from what I understand.
I don't think you're being a dick; at least you seem to be genuinely curious or willing to want to learn about it. Which is more than some at least. Even if you don't "agree" with it.
We don’t agree with each other here, but that’s no excuse to not be civil by any means. There’s lots of topics that we don’t agree on, but that’s no reason not to debate or be civil or polite or respectful while doing so. None of us can learn anything new if we’ve got closed minds.
With power lifting, I can sort of see the unfair advantage. But then Avi was a bullshit entry and he's not trans. That was done as a stunt.
With power lifting, and most other sports (except the Chess thing), I can see the unfair advantage. To you Avi was a bullshit entry (though before that entry he identified as a woman just like Anne or the woman involved in woman’s power lifting) and he’s not trans, but Avi was equally as much of a woman as Anne during a woman’s power lifting competition. I think both Anne & Avi are stunts with different agendas. To the women competitors, what’s the difference between Avi & Anne? Are they not the same thing physically to have to compete against?
Anne, I'd have to look into more.
Your call. I watched her mock the woman competitors stating she can’t understand how bad they are….but those woman competitors didn’t go through puberty as a male and then end up in a woman’s sport competing with woman who didn’t.
Lia, well, that's been hashed out and if you're being honest there should be no issue. Lia has won, and Lia has lost, both against women.
I’m sure it has. Lia, wins or loses, still took someone (a woman’s) place in those competitions, against woman, in the pool and in the locker room.
Fallon Fox is a cunt and well my feelings about her are not good, trans or not.
Here we agree. Though Fallon Fox hasn’t competed in woman’s sports since 2014, (or the woman you cited since 1902), Fallon still went through male puberty and can throw a punch like a man, and can fight like a man because….Fallon is a man regardless of how he identifies in the octagon.
Yet a question for you; should trans men then be forced to compete against women, since they are, after all, according to some "biological women"? What about after they've been taking T for years and years?
There’s a two way street here. I think you’re seeing the Trans people (men or women) as the only victims in these situations, & I’m seeing all forced to be involved in these situations as victims.
In your hypothetical situation above, are the woman in the woman’s sports also allowed to take Testosterone enhancing drugs for years before & during competition? If not, it’s not fair to them. On the flip side, do the rest of the women in women’s sports get to go through male puberty and then decide to compete in woman’s sports with woman who haven’t gone through male puberty? Is this not the same thing advantage wise?
Sort of. Baseball, football (all types), basketball, hockey, volleyball, all the significant team sports, were designed to use characteristics of the male physique.
So you’re saying there’s a difference and males & females depending on the sport each have physical advantages?? That’s enough to have Trudeau shake his finger at you and freeze your bank account….
In most European cultures, women and girls were forbidden to play these sports at all until about a century or so ago. Compare that to my example of women's gymnastics, one of the very few big sports actually designed for women. Men fail at it even more hilariously than women underperform at the aforementioned sports.
Of that I have no doubt and I believe you, though I can’t say I’ve ever watched it beyond snippets in the news on Olympic years.
So, having set it up all nice and comfy so that the bulk of the money and attention goes to men, of course they want to keep women out of it categorically.
What’s stopping woman from supporting Woman’s sports with their arses in the seats at woman’s soccer or basketball? Voting with their wallets as far as the bulk of the money goes, etc…?
It's an in-group, out-group thing. Same reason that until quite recently, only men could be fighter pilots, even though women average better at three characteristics that are desirable in fighter jocks: physical size, tolerance for g stresses, and fine-movement control.
A generation back, my father, and a few of my uncles also couldn’t be trained as fighter pilots due to their physical size. I’m told that most of them physically either couldn’t fit into a cockpit, or if they did, they couldn’t effectively move, so two went into the Navy, and two went into the Army (including my father) and one went into the airborne, and one went to hairdressing school, but that’s a different story.