First transgender athlete picked for Olympics

[DJPunkRoc]

I have a bad feeling about this thread.

As for my opinion. I'm not sure at all, I need to see more research into what advantages are there after transitioning amd such. Its not something I've spent much time looking into.

Emma Hilton is a biologist who has worked in this area. This is from twitter, but contains links to the many, many scientific studies which prove that males retain their physical advantages over women post transition regardless of surgery and hormones.

https://twitter.com/FondOfBeetles/status...61547?s=19

Here's a quick stat for everyone:

There has never before been a woman in her 40s competing in this weightlifting weight category in the Olympics. Until Laurel Hubbard.

As for the comments about "not caring about sports" and prison "could be a problem" when there have been documented cases of rape in prison, words fail me.

[baggiebloke]

1. It's not fair on female athletes.
- the transitioned competitor has physical advantages still
2. I just can't see how a fair "category" of competitor can be created due to the low numbers of Laurel's physical "equivalent"

So I have great sympathy for all of the hard working female athletes and sympathy for Laurel too.

This will drag on.

That's not a pun.

[Cheshire East Baggie]

The sometime tennis player Renee Richards (born Richard Raskind), who transitioned at the age of around 40, has come to believe that if she had made the change at 22 she would have been a world-beating player, taking an unfair advantage over other women players. It can't be regarded as fair competition to bring the superior strength of a male physique into the female sporting arena.

[Derek Hardballs]

It’s clearly an unfair advantage in any sport that requires strength, speed and stamina it’s inevitably unfair.

[GunsOfNavarone]

It'll be funny as fuck if Laurel forgets her weights belt at a major competition, walks onto the lifting mat like it's just another day and then nonchalantly wops her clit out and ties it around her back as an alternative   .

[Ossian]

Attempts at inclusivity - however well intentioned - often throw up as many issues as they resolve. We see this a lot in outdoor areas - boardwalks in reserves, vehicular access for disabled badge holders, funiculars - still inadequate for some users, too intrusive in the view of others.

Difficult to see how this can have a solution to meet everyone's preferences and - in some cases - agenda.

[Spandaubaggie]

Perhaps we can now see a load of 6ft 6 crap male basketball players become women to compete at the sport. They may have lost six inches elsewhere, but those six inches nearer the basket will help.

Sadly, there's very few things in life that are beyond opinion and gender is one of them, bar those being born with sexual organs of both genders, which are very few.

As ever, it's so difficult to conduct conversations about such matters online as it's littered with those ready to explode.

I'll watch this thread with some interest.

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Attempts at inclusivity - however well intentioned - often throw up as many issues as they resolve. We see this a lot in outdoor areas - boardwalks in reserves, vehicular access for disabled badge holders, funiculars - still inadequate for some users, too intrusive in the view of others.

Difficult to see how this can have a solution to meet everyone's preferences and - in some cases - agenda.

The weird thing about all this Oss is the number of people who have sex changes is astonishingly few. I believe it's less than I in 900. However, there's so much focus on all this kind of stuff now, when their battles seem to have been won- I really don't get it.

[DJPunkRoc]

It'll be funny as fuck if Laurel forgets her weights belt at a major competition, walks onto the lifting mat like it's just another day and then nonchalantly wops her clit out and ties it around her back as an alternative   .

That's some pretty bespoke porn you've been watching there, pal.

[Fulham Fallout]

When it comes down to it, this thread is a load of bollocks, or not as the case may be

[ElbowGrease1973]

Wouldn't it just be easier to have a separate category when it comes to sport for those who are transgender? Not sure if that would offend, but it would be the most logical approach.