DEMOCRATS UNANIMOUS AS HOUSE PASSES BILL FORCING SCHOOLS TO LET MALE ATHLETES COMPETE IN GIRLS’ SPORTS
The Democratically controlled House of Representatives voted Friday 236-173 in favor of the Equality Act, which would require schools to include male athletes who identify as transgender girls on female sports teams.
Eight Republicans crossed party lines to vote for the bill, which had unanimous Democratic support.
The bill amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to make “sexual orientation and gender identity” protected characteristics under federal anti-discrimination law.
Among other things, that would force public schools to expand female athletic teams to include biological males who identify as transgender girls.
Republican Florida Rep. Greg Steube introduced a last-minute amendment to the bill that would have preserved Title IX’s protections of female athletic teams, but Democrats rejected it.
Every House Democrat but one co-sponsored the legislation. The only Democrat who wasn’t a co-sponsor, Illinois Rep. Dan Lipinski, announced his support for the bill following pressure from left-wing activists.
“People need to wake up. This radical bill is going to totally eliminate women’s and girls sports,” Republican Arizona Rep. Debbie Lesko warned in an op-ed Thursday.
Republican Missouri Rep. Vicky Hartzler and a half-dozen other House Republicans held a press conference Thursday in opposition to what Hartzler dubbed the “Inequality Act.”
“Congress enacted Title IX to provide equal opportunities for women in education and sports. All this is erased under H.R. 5,” Hartzler said at the press conference.
Three former elite female athletes, Doriane Coleman, Martina Navratilova and Sanya Richards-Ross, warned that the Equality Act would wreak havoc on women’s sports in an April 29 Washington Post op-ed.
“The legislation would make it unlawful to differentiate among girls and women in sports on the basis of sex for any purpose. For example, a sports team couldn’t treat a transgender woman differently from a woman who is not transgender on the grounds that the former is male-bodied,” the former athletes wrote.
“Yet the reality is that putting male- and female-bodied athletes together is co-ed or open sport. And in open sport, females lose,” the three women warned.
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, a Democrat from New York, insisted the bill wouldn’t put female athletes at a disadvantage.
“Many states have sexual orientation and gender identity nondiscrimination laws, and all of them still have women’s sports. Arguments about transgender athletes participating in sports in accordance with their gender identity having competitive advantages have not been borne out,” Nadler said at a April 2 hearing on the bill.
In Connecticut, one of the states to which Nadler was referring, two male runners have dominated girls’ high school track. A female competitor called the male runners’ advantage “demoralizing.”
The Dems/Libs have just had one of their finest hours - and the eight Repubs who voted for this need to become the Dems/Libs they truly are.
Next - the Senate is all going to be admitted to the nearest emergency room due to having such laughing fits and convulsions.
OMFG
It's good to see the foolish Dems continue to destroy their once respected party.
They are so out of touch and step with everyday American citizens that it's unbelievable
I don't think the transgender vote will be big enough to get them over the hump.
I do see the House being retaken by the Republicans next year.
Greg - I truly can not believe that the party that sponsored and passed this bill (?) has any idea of what the vast, vast majority of American citizens are looking for in our government body.
I think they are going to learn it all over again at election time!
thanks for seeding this. I’ve seeded warnings about this bill several times before it passed and the secular progressives defended the law and attacked the opposition as bigots. Maybe you will have a better reception here than I did.
Good gawd .... please tell me this is from the onion!
No? We are wholly and totally screwed with leadership like this.
Unbelieveable
There have already been numerous threads on this subject. As long as the trans-female athletes are and have been on proper doses of both estrogen and androgen blockers for 6 months what more do you want them to do? Is the school going to pay for gender surgery if you want their testes removed?
If trans-women (male to female) had to compete as male then trans men would have to compete as women. How do you think that would work out because those trans-men (female to male) have a much higher testosterone level.
Do you want to bans mtf and ftm athletes from participating in sports?
Maybe you could go all the way and ban black athletes from participating on an equal basis with white athletes or is that too obvious?
"Maybe you could go all the way and ban black athletes from participating on an equal basis with white athletes or is that too obvious?"
Ridiculous racebaiting does not address the issue at hand.
No, we simply want biological males to compete as males, and biological females to compete as females.
Just asking for a tiny bit of sanity here.
Do you think that those female to male trans-boys with a male level of testosterone are going to be on an equal basis with CIS girls?
It is gender baiting in this issue. Social conservatives have a problem with trans people.
What I think is that males should compete against males, and females compete against females.
Period.
Full stop.
Trans boys were born female and now they are living as males and taking larges doses of testosterone to masculinize their body to match their male gender identity.
EXACTLY, and they should compete as females.
Di you really think that a transboy with a male gender identity and a male level of testosterone is going to be a fair match for a genetic female?
Not sure about every state, but most have regulations on the amounts of testosterone for athletes. Not sure that would be allowed by most athletic associations.
Anyone born male will have an unfair physical advantage over anyone born female. Testosterone levels don't change body type or strength.
The war on women by the Democrats continues unabated.
Black isn't a gender. Try another spin...
Or perhaps you could stop making completely ridiculous rationalizations.
less emotion please and more reason
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No, but the analogy for the past discrimination against black athletes is a solid one.
You're kind of a jeenyus at picking out these rare examples of absurd claims, never letting go of them and pretending it's some widespread phenom. You don't seem to be able to dismount your hobbyhorse. And I've got a new abbreviation since you love that SJW one: SIW -- Social Injustice Warrior, and I credit you as the inspiration and dub you this movement's founder. Congratulations.
OK, now you have blown it.
I played high school, Junior College and College sports. In ALL of our competitions, we were subject to drug testing to determine if we had added any substance to our systems that would/could enhance our performance ability and give us an ADVANTAGE over our competitors.
So, you're saying, that since the "person" can't determine if they're a male or female, it is totally permissible to introduce DRUGS into their system to give them the UNFAIR ADVANTAGE of ARTIFICIAL ENHANCEMENT over the other competitors in that particular sport - just because that particular "person" can't determine what sex they are???
BS - if you can't make it on your OWN INDIVIDUAL ABILITIES WITHOUT DRUGS - you shouldn't be in that competition,, regardless of your sex/sexual orientation.
I wish the left luck (sarc) gettin that piece of filth they call legislation past the Senate which they do not control. I foresee a crash and burn on this one...
"The bill amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to make “sexual orientation and gender identity” protected characteristics under federal anti-discrimination law." This means any male who claims to identify as female is now eligible for any and all female sports scholarships by law. No he does not have to be taking hormones or have any surgery. All he has to do is be better at his chosen sport than the females who would normally win those scholarships and they will forced to award the scholarship to him. So much for women's rights.
But, if the Dems/Libs are going to start pulling these kinds of stunts - I think we need to be on the lookout at what other Civil Rights and Constitutional Rights they are going to start tearing apart.
You really think that cis-males are going to sign up for girls/women sports just to excel? [deleted] but any male who'd try this stunt would get such well-deserved ridicule that his high school career would be a living hell-- also well deserved.
Trump is NOT the topic. Quit deflecting.
Crazy times we live in.
This going to make great fodder for whoever authors the America focused equivalent of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in a thousand years.
Democrats declare war on young women. Shameful. Just shameful.
There are ways to treat trans kids fairly without destroying the opportunities for female athletes. As someone who coached and advocated for female athletes for two decades, I am disgusted.
What happened to "listen to women?" What happened to "believe women?"
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Outside of the Olympics and Women's world Cup, who cares?
Any girl that is trying to compete at the high school level to get a college scholarship.
Or are you against girls/women being able to compete on a level playing field?
Apparently so.
All the real things that need addressing in our country, and our fine Democratic friends choose THIS?
LMFAO!
How out-of-touch with mainstream America can they get?
Well hell Tex, for days now yall chose to address a tiny minority of the people who will be effected by the bill so it seems fitting.
Well, hell, Dulay, you surely can believe that this is an important issue--more important than healthcare, taxes, social safety net, immigration, campaign finance reform, worker's rights, education, banking reform, childcare, drug prices, insurance costs, student debt, income inequality --if you choose.
I just don't buy it is high on the list for mainstream America.
Strawman.
Yet you've been here for days posting comments about it...
No one's worried about selling to you.
I hope Democrats follow your lead and make this an important campaign issue. Should be fun!
You should learn about strawmen arguments before accusing someone of using one. Might do some good.
Whew! That is such a relief!! Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I wasn't in the market to buy bullshit anyways.
People can peddle that crap to someone who thinks it is more important than the items I already mentioned!
What 'lead' is that Tex? Please be specific.
Strawman:
Yep, that fit's your comment to a T.
Exactly what part of "I hope Democrats follow your lead and make this an important campaign issue." did you noit understand? I WAS pretty specific----read it again if it isn't clear to you.
Just because you read something doesn't mean you understood it or applied it correctly.
Have a nice day.
I understood your words Tex. I don't know how the hell you came to the unfounded conclusion that I was leading anyone, anywhere.
Just because you're desperate to pretend that your comment wasn't a strawman doesn't mean it wasn't. I'll let other members decide for themselves...
GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So facts are now the new strawman?? Hilarious.
You now have the ability to determine whether or not someone's comments, BASED ON THEIR OPINIONS, are pertinent to the discussion? That their comments are "strawman"?? Please don't conduct deflection.
No. Based on what I actually said, claiming that I held one issue more important than another is a strawman.
Is this the beginning of the Democratic War on Women?
Yet republicans have been declaring war on women for the last century
Its nice to have dreams.
Don't you ever give them up, no-sir-ee!
Republicans will never surrender on that front.
do people actually believe that cisgendered boys are going to pretend to be transgendered girls just to compete in girl's sports and try to win ? so they can - what - brag they won in girl's sports ?
Why not?
Most high schoolers know what sex they are. Some just pretend otherwise.
Most high school students aren't transgendered either. Why would a students pretend to be trans and take massive doses of hormones just for a trophy?
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so you seriously believe that this will be the new trend - that cisgendered boys will pretend to be transgendered girls so they can win at girls sports and brag to their friends about it ? do you think colleges will start handing out scholarships to cisgendered boys for pretending to be transgendered girls and winning at girl's sports ?
Well, gee, thanks for that earth-shattering news. Most HS students aren't transgendered. Well, no shit.
Don't know why people pretend to be things they aren't.
I just feel as though males should compete against other males. And females should compete against other females.
Trans people aren't pretending anything. Their psychological gender (sense of self) is different from their physical gender.
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I never said they were. That answer was in response to a direct question from you. If you don't want an answer, perhaps not asking would work better.
I don't give a rat's behind what they think about themselves. Doesn't have anything to do with competing in sports as a male or female--whichever one they were born as.
I didn't say that, but it damn sure wouldn't surprise me in today's world.
No telling what colleges might do to get more money.
very interesting viewpoint..... out of curiosity - do you believe in pizzagate as well ?
WTF does THAT have to do with THIS?
Please, make the connection, because I damn sure can't see one---or are you merely trying to derail and deflect?
And for the record, since it seems important to you, the answer is no.
Do you still believe in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy?
the connection - i'm curious as to what your mind will believe if you certainly think that the possibility exists that a new trend will happen that cisgendered boys will pretend to be transgendered girls so they can win at girl's sports... and that possibly colleges will hand out scholarships to cisgendered boys who pretended to be transgendered girls to win at girl's sports. (i thought that connection was obvious, i apologize for making that assumption)
and if you were curious - I stopped believing in Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and other imaginary friends before i became a teenager.
That is so thin as to be see-through.
Surely you can come up with something more substantive than that?
I will tell you one thing MY mind will never believe-------that I was born a male but am really a woman.
Congrats. Like more than 98% of the people you are not transgendered. The fact that +/- 1.5% of people might be transgendered in some form. Either primary or secondary transgendered.
they are your words - not mine... so i was just curious how far your mind will go into believing certain things - like Pizzagate. if you can't make the further connections - that would be an issue you will need to resolve for yourself.
ok, so your gender identity aligns with your biological sex - congrats. i know you'll find this shocking - but not everyone is like you.
You’ve obviously never been associated with competitive sports. People, including high school kids, do all kinds of things to their bodies in order to win.
What doctors is going to prescribe those hormones? Why would a boy take large does of estrogen to win a women's trophy and then attend college as a male? Do you have any idea the medical problems that would cause? That amount of estrogen in a male brain would also cause severe depression and he would be sterile.
No issue for me. I'll toss that bit of trash where it belongs.
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First they don't have to take massive doses of hormones to qualify as trans and secondly there is more than just trophies up for grabs there are college scholarships that are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Once sexual orientation and gender identity are protected characteristics under federal anti-discrimination law colleges will be forced to award these scholarships on merit alone. Typically only the top 1% of high school athletes get sports scholarships so this Law would put many of these scholarships in jeopardy.
Why assume that everyone in that position is being honest?
Why would someone spend a million dollars to pretend to get their kid on a soccer team even though the kid doesn't play soccer? Why would someone in another country get pregnant and then sneak into America just so their kid could be a US citizen? Why would someone running for president coordinate with a historically antagonistic country like Russia to steal the election? Why would an actual sitting president risk everything to get blowjobs from an intern and then lie about it under oath? Why would a mother throw her own children off a bridge? Why would a famous TV star fake being threatened and attacked just to get attention when he already gets tons of it? Why would maybe the most loved black comic in America drug and rape women by the dozens?
Maybe you think some of these things are true and some aren't. That's not the point. The point is people do absurd crap like this or society at least understands that they would. But somehow everyone trying to be a trans female athlete is 100% honest?
And even if they are honest, they may still have an unfair advantage that they don't appreciate. These cases should be reviewable on an individual basis. There should not be a blanket policy one way or the other. It's too complex an issue.
biological sex is biological - research gender and gender identity, there's a difference between the two. one's opinion doesn't change the fact there's a difference between biological sex and gender.
It would be a medical violation to give a child medication under false pretenses for a condition that they do not have. Why would you go to that level and then not be transgendered?
There would be no great athletic endeavor to win as a female in high school and then go back to your CIS male gender in college.
I agree mostly but there are three genders if you would intersexxed. There is male, female and intersexxed, which has biological aspects of both genders. Those with gender identity incongruency are changing their biological gender to match their physical gender. they are not creating a new gender.
Gender identity is based on medical science. Our brains appear to have a gender and it is very obvious that our personalities have a gender.
The other classes are sexual orientations or lack there-of and actions but they are not genders.
So because doing something would be stupid, dangerous and generally wrong, we shouldn't be on the alert for it?
Free college is pretty great. Preferential admission consideration because you've been through something like this is useful, too.
I'd love it if everyone were fair and honest, but they aren't.
Who would give a guy who won athletic awards as a female and then attended college as a guy?
We should be wary of the possibility but I don't see it being common.
This is the second time you have tried to argue against this point even though I didn't make it. I feel no obligation to defend a scenario I haven't proposed. I know you are familiar with the concept of a straw man.
Similarly, I have not said it would be common, nor would I. Many things are uncommon but that doesn't mean they are things we should ignore.
It is far easier to argue what someone wants you to have said instead of your actual words. This trend is becoming rampant. It really is nothing more than intellectual dishonesty and laziness.
Do you have any idea how dangerous it would be for a CIS boy to take estrogen just to compete against women instead of men? they would be sterile for their entire life and probably have severe mental health problems. This would be insane.
The Dr would lose his medical license for this stunt.
How do you think up such insane ideas?
From what I am reading, sterility is a risk, not a certainty.
Bruce Jenner fathered two children with Kris despite the fact that he had been on HRT for 4 1/2 years.
I am also reading that there could be other side effects such as loss of bone density and brain development. There are too few children using HRT and therefore too few studies even possible to have any kind of comprehensive overview of the benefits and adversities of HRT either short or long term.
We do know that children's brains don't fully mature until they reach their mid 20s. I am apprehensive about the ethics and morality on experimenting with children with HRT with such limited data.
She must have been taking a low dose of estrogen.
Men have been killing themselves for generations by taking testosterone to improve performance, so I am not impressed that fatal side effects would necessarily prevent some other males from taking estrogen to achieve a very similar goal. Additionally, thousands of olympic level female athletes doped with testosterone and other drugs for decades, suffering severe physical and mental damage.
I didn't think it up. It's called "history."
The East German "womens" (wink-wink) swim team comes to mind for some reason .....
How soon they forget, I guess.
East Germany’s forgotten Olympic doping victims tell of illness, infertility and changing sex
Part of that bears repeating:
This girl was pumped so full of testosterone, she went on to become a man:
Announcer: "Where on Earth do they find them, year after year?" Where, indeed.
HE must have been taking a low dose of estrogen.
He, she...……..depending on how someone "identifies" that day.
If their gender identity varies by the day then they are not transgendered but are instead gender fluidor genderqueer.
You may not like Caitlyn, and many people in the LGBT or supportive community do not, but please have the respect to use the proper gendered pronoun when you refer to her, unless others can refer to use as Ms'Mash.
Why would they take estrogen when it would severely degrade their performance, especially if they are not transgendered?
Birth control pills have given women control over our reproductive lives but even they have emotional and physical side effects that prohibit many from taking them.
To some, born a male or a female, always a male or female. Elective surgeries notwithstanding.
The chromosomes didn't change just because someone chooses to change from male to female or vice-versa.
It is not an elective surgery to the medical community. If trained people do not get the surgery to correct the gender dysphoria their risk of suicide increases greatly. Where did you get your medical/psych training?
A person's chromosomes and DNA determine their biological gender but they do not always create the psychological gender identity to be congruent to their biological gender. It would be great for their quality of life if they didn't have to take the correct gender hormones because they would be produced by their body and that their reproductive organs were 100% functional rather thanjust being aesthetic, but it is still a great benefit to them when their appearance matches their gender identity as much as currently medically possible.
Science says whether one is born male or female. If a person doesn't believe they were assigned the right sex at birth, then that is a psychological condition. Why would they ignore the science and attempt to change their sex instead of changing their mind which is telling them the science got it wrong?
In any case, this is far away from participating in sports as the sex you were born.
Unless it is co-ed sport, males should compete against males and females against females.
Ever try to 'change your mind' about being male? Do you really think it is possible to choose to desire being female?
Their body is born male or female, except in the case of the intersexxed. Medical science assumes at birth that their gender identity is in alignment with their biological gender, but in the case of 1%, who are transgendered, they would be correct. Some Drs have tried to treat the transgendered with medication for delusions, but it doesn't work and they only get depressed.
Why can't you understand that our sexuality and gender is far more complex than you want to believe? Are you threated because trans' people exist outside of the usual binary gender construct?
Our gender identity is fixed before birth and can not be changed by any means so medical science instead changes the body to match their psycholoigiaLgender identity. John Money tried to use both hormones and psychotherapy to change the gender identity of a person because he believed that it was the result of nurture instead of nature. That person committed suicide because of it and that idea has been banned, except for religious dipsticks who still cling to reparative therapy despite the fact that even their own say that it is abusive and ineffective.
why would you conflate biological sex with gender while knowing they aren't the same thing ?
yes, I made that point quite clearly--or at least I thought I did.
FFS--stop that bullshit right there. it is a lazy tactic to tell others what THEY are afraid of based on nothing more than YOUR opinion, or that they "just don't understand" it as well as the "brilliant" you do.
,At what specific point is gender identity fixed? 1 month, 2, 3, 4 ,5, 6, 7, 8, 9?
And once again, WTF does any of this have to do with sports?
I didn't, You simply didn't understand what I wrote.
Birth. If our brain and sex organs are in sync, then we are subjected to society telling us what to do with them.
If our brain and sex organs are out of sync with the majority, then we are subjected to all kinds of shit - little to none of it humane.
Some people believe that people born with a male body and female mind should be allowed to play sports as a female. I find this argument to be completely ludicrous and unacceptable on every level with or without hormone replacement therapy and surgery at this time.
In the future, when it can be proved that HRT absolutely makes it fair to allow people born with a male body to compete as a woman, then the stance should re-evaluated.
yeap, that must be it, thanks !
You are quite welcome.
Anytime!
Birth. Epistte disagrees with you. The claim is that it is before birth.
As do I. Males should compete against males and females against females, IMO.
In the future, I would be more than willing to reevaluate my position when more research is completed.
Abstract. Did you miss that part of your source?
Sexual differentiation of the human brain in relation to gender identity and sexual orientation.
Savic I1, Garcia-Falgueras A, Swaab DF.
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Abstract
It is believed that during the intrauterine period the fetal brain develops in the male direction through a direct action of testosterone on the developing nerve cells, or in the female direction through the absence of this hormone surge. According to this concept, our gender identity (the conviction of belonging to the male or female gender) and sexual orientation should be programmed into our brain structures when we are still in the womb. However, since sexual differentiation of the genitals takes place in the first two months of pregnancy and sexual differentiation of the brain starts in the second half of pregnancy, these two processes can be influenced independently, which may result in transsexuality. This also means that in the event of ambiguous sex at birth, the degree of masculinization of the genitals may not reflect the degree of masculinization of the brain. There is no proof that social environment after birth has an effect on gender identity or sexual orientation. Data on genetic and hormone independent influence on gender identity are presently divergent and do not provide convincing information about the underlying etiology. To what extent fetal programming may determine sexual orientation is also a matter of discussion. A number of studies show patterns of sex atypical cerebral dimorphism in homosexual subjects. Although the crucial question, namely how such complex functions as sexual orientation and identity are processed in the brain remains unanswered, emerging data point at a key role of specific neuronal circuits involving the hypothalamus.
The bold is my doing, just to point out that this isn't settled science as you would have me believe.
Do you have any sources that present facts?
Do you have anything that supports your idea that transgendered people are confused and are making a choice to be male or female?
A blog?
You claimed that gender identity is defined before birth, and when pressed, supplied a source that was nothing more than abstract thoughts.
This newest source from you is no better off at proving what you claimed.
And if a person can look down and see male part on themselves and somehow think they are a woman, I would consider THAT sufficient evidence that they are, indeed, confused.
All of this is just great, but not a thing to do with allowing men to compete against women or women to compete against men.
Why did you ignore this idea?
You are creating a strawman. They feel like a woman and have the drives of a woman but visually they see a man in the mirror. Or they feel like a man but they see a woman in the mirror. That mind-body incongruence is what gender dysphoria is.
You have no knowledge of this situation and are basing your ideas on ignorance and your emotions. The idea that they are confused was a common idea early in the treatment of gender identity but when they tried to reinforce their biological gender identity with psychotherapy and even increasing hormone levels it only caused suicides and addictions.
Once again this is a gross simplification of the situation because you understand nothing else. You also refuse to learn.
I didn't ignore it. it isn't settled science by any stretch of your imagination. You asked and I answered.
To me, born a male, you ARE a male. Born female, you ARE female. I feel sorry for people who suffer from mental problems, but that simply doesn't change what they actually are.
Just yet another example of you making it personal. Phfft.
I have done some research on this.
The fetal brain development is the problem. epistte is correct that studies show it is prior to birth because of either maternal hormone imbalances or the inability of the developing fetus to fully utilize the hormones.
Brain scans show that the child/teen/adult transgender male has a brain similar to a female - not identical to a female. And vice versa for the transgender female. So the male transgender does not think or act completely female, not does his/her body develop as a female unless HRT is used. Even with HRT, the male does not completely become a female unless his/her male organs are removed....and even then he/she is not FEMALE, but as close as human science can get to date.
Girls/women should not be expected to accept transgender males as "one of the girls" until we know what we are dealing with.
You are focusing only on biology and not on their psychologial gender identity which determines who they are and how they act. Do you have a unique personality or are all males identical because of your XY chromosomes? That same unique brain psychology is what makes some guys gay, some bi and some heterosexual, unless you also do not believe that people are bi and gay? .
The reason why you want to focus on that and ignore everything else because if you admitted that our brain is what makes us unique then you would be forced to change your stance on transgendered people as a whole instead of just claiming that they are confused.
If their brain is telling someone with a penis that they are a woman, then there is a problem in that brain.
Even you have admitted that it is a psychological problem.
When again is gender identity fixed?
God made everyone. Accept them. Or are you saying he f'd it up?
Yes, He did. yes, I accept that they are free to live their own lives. if you didn't see the words in my post, it should be obvious I didn't say that.
Just because I accept them doesn't mean I condone them competing in sports as anything other than what they were born as.
Most high schoolers know what sex they are. Some just pretend otherwise.
That comment is a tortal lie
So you must be of the opinion that the majority of high schoolers do NOT know what sex they are.
Good to know.
Nice talking with you!
They were obviously born trans and they are of their gender identity, despite your attempt to ignore their psychological gender identity and only focus on the external sex organs.
Their physical organs are somewhat tied to their overall physiology, no?
That physiology is way more important in most sports than the mind.
So males compete against males and women against women.
I have no concern over anywhere else in any of their lives--just the playing field.
That is what this about.
For the last time, trans' females are not men and transmen are not female. You also want trans males to stop their transition and their testosterone injections so they are biologically female again, despite the fact that they are male and that would be detrimental to their mental and physical health.
The mind controls the body so it is physiologically superior. You cannot ignore this basic fact, no matter how hard you try to do so.
If the trans athletes are taking the proper dose of hormones/blockers that align with their gender identity then they should be on parity with the CIS athletes that they are competing for against.
You have a problem with transgendered people and this is just another instance where you do not see them as being of their gender identity because you are visually motivated. You only see the gender of their body and not their psychological gender identity.
Promise? Cross your heart and hope to die?
Sports can be segregated by gender, like always. My opinion is as valid as yours.
Why must everything get personal with you?
You don't know me, and I resent the fact you are attempting to tell me how I feel about something. Back off.
"Should be" is not good enough on any level. For one thing, brain scans have not shown that trans people's brains are 100% aligned with the CIS folks. There are similarities.
It has to be irrefutably "ARE on parity" before trans athletes are allowed to participate in girls'/women's athletics.
I googled for more info about HRT and found an interesting article than answered some of my questions and raised more concerns. HRT has many side effects and should be monitored closely.
Until we actually have more info and a reliable way to ascertain that the transgender male to female has transitioned permanently to a mental and physical state that is part with CIS females, there is no way that they should ever be allowed to play girls'/women's athletics.
Also, we have no real idea of the longterm health risks of HRT so I am surprised that doctors are being allowed to use teenagers as guinea pigs - no matter how willing they are.
I don't know that is the case here. I believe that our concerns are valid.
Regardless of their psychological gender ID, It is the gender of their body that will used to participate in athletics. Where is the PROOF that HRT will destroy male muscle to the point of making it compatible to a CIS female? To date, I have found exactly none.
From what I have read so far, just because their psychological gender ID aligns more closely with female, it does not align completely. I really don't want to deal with male aggression brought on by HRT. I really feel that we need to know more before we throw CIS females under bus by trying to bend over backwards to be "fair" to transgenders. Shouldn't the goal be to be "fair" as possible to everyone?
Correction......that is on par with CIS females
The muscle tissue atrophies with the absence of testosterone. The estrogen also causes them to gain weight.
Why would a trans female experience male aggression brought on by estrogen therapy? It seems that would be the expected action of a trans boy taking testosterone. Trans females get mood swings and other hormonal joys that we deal with every month.
I do not see how we CIS females are being thrown under any bus because trans people are permitted to take part in their identified gender role as long as the trans athletes has been on effective HRT with their levels at standard female levels for more than 6 months. Having surgery and the removal of the testes would be optimum but surgeons are leery of operating on teens and there is a significant cost for that, unless it could be paid for by Medicaid if the student's family didn't have proper coverage.
Hormone therapy can influence behavior and mood in ways that are unpredictable. This is true no matter the drug or the sex of the person receiving it.
Here's the thing: there are many so-called gender roles, but sports is a sex role. By that I don't mean that procreation is happening in organized sport, but that the sports are segregated based purely on biology. It has nothing whatsoever to do with traditional gender roles. It's not about separating boys and girls because of custom or morality. It's because of performance due to biology. Sports programs for females had to to be created to give them the opportunity to participate. They were physically incapable of competing for spots on sports teams because of lesser female performance.
One thing every female in a sports program knew (up until recently) was that everyone they were competing against - even if they were an extraordinary physical specimen - was every bit as female as they were. That gave female athletes a sense that the competition was fair. Now that is going away because of a laudable desire to cut someone a break who is struggling with dysphoria. The problem is that though that compassion is commendable, it may well destroy an opportunity that had previously been set aside for someone in need of it.
It's worse than a straight trade-off, because not only does a natural-born female lose out, but the other females who want to take part are discouraged. That defeats everything that advocates for female athletes have been fighting for for 50 years.
When has a trans female on HRT ever become unusually aggressive that was determined to be caused by her hormone therapy? You are arguing for a solution when there is no problem needing be addressed.
Your idea would also ban intersexxed people from sporting competition.
From my perscpetive it seems that conservatives have found a new minority that they can attack and who cannot fight back because of the rare situation of a trans athlete is better than their CIS competitor. Do you need to feel superior to someone so you can be happy?
I am far from a conservative and I have repeatedly expressed my concerns about this situation for ALL involved. We need far more research and understanding than studies on a few dozen or hundred people transitioning. When is science ever satisfied with such a limited amount of subjects?
OTOH, it is you who are saying that males taking HRT are 100% the same as CIS females with absolutely zero proof to back up that assertion - possibly because there are not comprehensive studies on large enough control groups.
Usually you are very analytic and open to discussing possibilities so I am not understanding your stance on this issue.
Still zero proof that it lessens their muscle strength to make it the exact same of CIS females.
Uh, consider the fact that taking estrogen does not completely eliminate the testosterone as long as they are physically intact.
Male aggression / estrogen induced mood swings? We have no idea what we are dealing with here because we don't have enough subjects and years of study to comfortably know what kind of emotional Hell we are subjecting these people to.
I completely disagree and will continue to disagree until science proves otherwise.
I have seen people's moods - and even their apparent perceptions of reality - swing wildly under hormone therapy. Women and men. It happens.
Not at all, but it might mean they would have to compete in male sports, not female. The population is small enough that I think - for now - these cases should be evaluated on an individual basis.
Politics has nothing to do with it - at least not for me. This is true for many others. There have been several so-called liberals who have publicly expressed the same views I have. The article seeded here mentions a few, but there have been others all over the world. Unless, it's your position that anyone advocating for females athletes is being politically conservative? That would be a new one on me.
I don't know. Do you need to take cheap shots at people to make an argument?
And ya know what????? Sports are involved with THE PHYSICAL GENDER - not the "I wanna be" gender.
People do some pretty insane shit, especially when it comes to school or school sports. Just look at all the people spending hundreds of thousands - even millions - of dollars to fake getting their kid onto a sports team so they can go to the college they want to go to. Who would have predicted that lunacy?
Look at how many athletes use performance enhancing drugs and/or steroids to compete - in spite of knowing full well the dire legal and medical consequences. Look at how many do it even though they are already at the top of their game (see: Barry Bonds)
It doesn't even need to start out as something nefarious. Maybe somebody genuinely wants to make the change, but decides along the way that maybe they don't need to rush to get the testosterone out of their system. Maybe they could make the change as slow or as minimally as possible and just enjoy the slight benefit that goes along with it. If it's not technically cheating, it's ok, right?
um.. that's been happening for quite a few years, decades even - have you not been paying attention ? i haven't seen any biological male pretend to be a trans female just to win at female sports to go to their choice of college to compete on female's sports teams -- maybe you could show a couple instances ?
oddly.. those performance enhancing drugs, for guys, aren't changing their biological sex nor enabling them to compete in women's sports - it's just so they can be better at competing at guys sports (same applies to women)
you do have a point with that and i will agree that rules need to be set in place for instances like that.
I accept the fact that some biological males identify as female. Male body, female mental identity. I get that. And it makes great sense to accept people for who they are and not force them to conform to societal norms (as long as they do no harm). So, in this case, individuals who identify as the gender opposite their physiology should be allowed to do so.
So now move to physical activities like sports. We segregate male and female sports for a very good reason. That reason is because the male body is generally more suited to athletic endeavors. No matter how talented a female tennis player, she typically will be at a great disadvantage going up against an opponent with male muscularity. Moving to sports like football or hockey illustrate the problem in rather glaring clarity.
For the most part this is not going to be a problem because there are so few trans. But the ethical and logical factors are still worthy of discussion.
A counterargument is that people are naturally different. So some girls are naturally more muscular than others and thus have a similar advantage. And that is true. It is also true that some people are simply not athletic. The natural advantage argument is sound. Recognizing that most differences must simply be accepted, we need to draw lines of demarcation at what are considered the critical differences. Historically, competitive athletics have done just that. Depending upon the sport we draw the line based on age, weight, height, gender and/or skill level (e.g. beginners vs intermediate vs advanced). These are the measurable factors that matter most in sports.
Now we have legislation that in effect argues that the well established gender demarcation is no longer valid if an athlete believes himself to be female. But the athletic / competitive reasoning for gender demarcation was not found to be invalid, the reasoning for the demarcation remains sound, right?
Seems we have a substantial logical contradiction.
That sounds way too reasonable for this forum.
Well, I don't think the Democrats are going to find that this will be a winning issue for them.
Hmmm interesting and thought provoking .. I have to say no, the reasoning is no longer sound, another major boundary has been moved - thus opening the door for further challenge to the standard guidelines.
.. females have already crossed over to playing football with males, as well as competing in wrestling programs.. a female can even be a Boy Scout .. when it comes to gender equality .. transgender rights .. the battle 'kind of really' has just begun. What team will the gender neutral play for? My friends youngest daughter identifies as Agender..
Must have been difficult for him to come out of the closet...
Yeah - the door was too low.
And should continue to do so, indefinitely and probably forever. When it comes to transgender, there is still too much to learn and understand before we allow people born with male bodies to compete in female athletics in any sport. I don't know if there are enough hormones to have ever made it fair to allow Caitlyn Jenner to compete in girls'/women's athletics. Until we know, then transgenders should not be allowed to compete as females - period.
I have sympathy for the transgender people of all ages. Life can be confusing enough when the brain and sexual organs are aligned.
Ironically, I think the failure of trans advocates on this point drives some young people into changes they don't need.
For some people who genuinely look at their body and see themselves trapped in something alien, probably the only way they can ever find peace is through surgery and hormone treatments. One of my oldest friends is one of those people.
But I think for a lot of people, they present as someone who acts and has preferences outside of expected gender norms and the trend today is to decide that person is trans and requires medical intervention. That approach is actually enforcing gender stereotypes. If we were serious about defeating those standards, we would tell young people there are an infinite number of ways to be a male or female and allow them to behave as they are comfortable.
There is nothing wrong, for example, with being a female with short hair, wearing pants, playing sports, driving trucks, or whatever else it is we think guys normally do. And the reverse, of course, is true. Probably many people could live as what they are without having to behave in ways that socially conform to the expectations of their biological sex if the rest of us were just ok with that.
I think you are correct. People in general seem overly concerned about acceptance. That is part of the reason why group think even exists. We all have a tendency to try to fit in and be accepted. It takes work to think for oneself and it takes guts to go against the established norms.
Live and let live would indeed go a long way to reduce radical moves by people to conform.
Therein lies the rub.
Jejune.
Rumpelstiltskin.
So far, the "legislation" hasn't passed the Senate sniff test yet.
I suspect knowledge that this is very unlikely to pass the Senate was part of the thought process for many.
Why? Both Houses of Congress have been trying to pass ENDA for over 2 decades, the Equality Act is the next step since it includes housing and the jury system.
Frankly, as they already allow females to participate and compete in male sports, such as baseball, football and others, then there should be no qualms about allowing males to do the same in girl's sports if they choose to do so.
IMHO, there won't be that many males that will want to participate or compete with girls in their sports. However, if there are any, they should be allowed to do so, and if not, then they should not allow girls to so in boy's sports.
JMOO
As far as I know, the only girls in 'boys' sports are competing in sports were there is only a 'boys' team.
Well....I have read where there is a girl playing on an all boys football team, baseball team, soccer and a few others ......
Soccer:
Baseball:
Football:
Jen Welter becomes first woman to play in men's pro football league in contact position -
These are just a few I could find right off. There are more who are set to follow in their footsteps.
The only team that I see there that they could have a girls soccer team.
From your link:
So it looks like they don't have a girls soccer team. It also says 39 girls play on boys teams in CT.
There are no 'girls' football or baseball teams that I know of.
Not so....
Football:
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Baseball:
Soccer:
Just doing a bit of quick on-line research proves this is not the case.
'Girls' was the operative word there RW.
Your first 'football' link is for a defunct Ausie WOMEN's league. BOTH leagues have half naked women playing 'football'.
As for your baseball link, I saw 'A league of their own', too. The last game they played was before even I was born.
As I said, as far as I know, there are no GIRLS baseball teams. Recently, they are allowing girls play Little League and that should help girls compete on a one on one basis. As your link showed, last year we FINALLY fielded a women's National baseball team and many of those young women probably got to play in Little League. Maybe some day there will be women in MLB.
As the CT link you posted shows, 39 GIRLS are playing on BOYS teams because there are no GIRLS soccer teams for them to try out for. It isn't a stretch to presume that there are many states where GIRLS are doing the same. The fact that some colleges have teams and the US fields a national team doesn't change that fact.
So it's pretty obvious that even 45 years after Title IX, GIRLS still don't have anything near equal opportunity in sports.
Couldn't disagree more.
Girls playing in boys sports? Okay, if they can compete, i'm all for it. But boys in girls sports? The average boy athlete WILL dominate the average girl athlete in most sports. It would penalize girls in girls sports. Not good, not good at all.
Some things are just natural/logical separations and IMO that is one of them.
Well....I have to disagree with you there. That's kind of misogynistic thinking. I have met a good many girls who can hold their own any day of the week against a male. And I have seen males get their butts kicked by a female.
Girls today and not the little shrinking violets and fragile Magnolia blossoms of yester year. I was a Tom Boy in my youth and could out run, out tree and rope climb, and out wrestle any boy in our neighborhood. And that is fact. I also played field baseball, hockey, ran track, and could punch with the best of them. And most of today's girls are more fit that most of us were in my day.
So if you think there are not some girls that can hold their own in a boys sports, or could not fairly compete against boys in girl's sports, you might want to think twice.
As have i, myself included in one instance but it simply isn't the norm. The physiology of the situation dictates the norm. And that norm yields boys over girls most of the time. Thats just reality no matter how you try to slice it.
Not even close to what i was said. In fact its just the opposite of what i said so i suggest you take that chip off your shoulders and read what i said again.
Boys playing in girls sports will take spots from away girls. No question about it. And i for one am surprised you would support taking those opportunities away from girls. Very surprised. Having coached JrH and HS sports, its already hard enough telling parents and the kids they didn't make the team. This would just make it worse for the girls.
This is just another case of taking care of a minority while screwing the majority. Nothing more, nothing less.
Not so. It's called gender equality. A term I know most males hate to hear or see. No matter what their gender, if the person qualifies for the position they are trying out for they should have just as much right to be considered for that position as anyone else, no matter what their gender. To do otherwise is called gender bias or prejudice. This term is not one that males hear, but, a large majority of females do, and not only in sports.
So for you to say that women are considered a minority, then your male chauvinism is showing bright and clear.
Your words not mine. Once again the chip on your shoulder shines through like a beacon in a lighthouse. It's clear now that you have no interest in checking it at the door on this one.
The minority is the small number of biological boys who would try to take spots from the majority of biological girls in sports. Make no mistake, that is a minority. A very small minority And again, i am honestly surprised you would support taking such opportunity away from girls.
I don't. Not for gender equality, not for anything.
Well..... I am not taking anything away from girls. Again, it's called gender equality. If a male or female can qualify for the position, they have a right to be considered.
Biological gender has no real meaning one way or the other. It would be unfair for a trans-gender of either sex to be denied a spot on a team they are amply qualified for on any team and allow a totally unqualified person to take the spot simply because they are biological. That is called prejudice.
Seeing how we disagree on this topic, let's agree to disagree and call it good.
Agreed
I wonder how many people would support curbing Title IX in regards to sports?
Instead of male and female sports, just have anyone interested in playing any sport simply try out. To make the team, you have to be among the best with no regard to sex. Title IX says that opportunities must be equal, and if everyone has a chance to try out, that is equal. Just because the results might not be satisfactory to some won't matter, because everyone has the same opportunity.
Bet that wouldn't fly!
It is interesting how few "feminists" (and they are plentiful here) are voicing an objection to this.
Must be an awfully confusing time for them.
Yet y'all have been harping on it for DAYS while ignoring the MAJORITY of those that will be helped by the Equality Act.
Most feminists are intelligent enough to understand that the Equality Act will not have a negative effect on the political, economic or social equality of the sexes.
Wrong, it’s still a minority, negatively affecting a majority.
A victory, for the few boys, who want to dominate girls sports.
Congrats!
First of all, it would behoove you to READ MORE CAREFULLY.
Secondly, please cite what majority will be negatively affected by the Equality Act and HOW will it 'change' them.
Your comment illustrates a utter lack of understanding of the content and effect of the Equality Act.
Congrats!
Well as usual, your counsel is misplaced. Nothing new there but i’ll be happy to help you understand it.
Boys playing girls sports? Bad.
Girls playing boys sports not so bad.
Gender equality in this case is nothing more that just another progressive exercise in left wing moonbattery.
Refer to post 11.2.15 ..... lather, rinse, repeat as necessary
So don't READ MORE CAREFULLY. If you want to continue to post baseless comments, so be it.
You'd have to understand yourself and your comments have illustrated that you don't.
Concentrating on what you admit is "A very small minority" in order to deflect from the 23 MILLION+ that the Equality Act protects is another neo-national exercise in wingnuttery.
Since it's unnecessary for me to re-read your uninformed comment, I'll take a pass.
Rather than more snark, I'd much rather read your reply to my comment. Here, I'll repeat it:
Please cite what majority will be negatively affected by the Equality Act and HOW will it 'change' them.
I'd also like to know who will be negatively affected and how they will be affected because others have guaranteed equal rights that the majority already enjoy.
Snark is as snark does.
Your question has been asked and answered more than once. The fact that you don’t accept the answer is not my problem.
Here’s another one for you. How many kids have you had to tell they didn’t make the team because others were better? Not many, if any, I bet.
Read the thread. Asked and answered.
I have obviously read the thread and I understand that many people think that trans female teens should not be competing with CIS teens. The problem is do you think that CIS females would fare better in athletic competitions if they were forced to compete against trans males, who were born female?
What rights will I as a CIS female lose if trans people have guaranteed equal rights? Will you as a CIS male also lose any rights because of their guaranteed equality?
Would you rather have separate athletic leagues just for trans teens in the spirit of "separate but equal", but that would also mandate that the school system would be forced to provide coaches and school transportation to those events.
Do trans kids and adults not have any secular rights that need to be protected and guaranteed because scholastic athletic events is just once small piece of that situation? This include workplace/employment protections, rental and home buying, adoptions, healthcare and the public sector, among many others.
I see a lot of similarity to the time when black and white kids competed against each other and white parents thought that black students had an unfair advantage. Maybe you would be happy if male to female trans teens would have an automatic 5 seconds tacked on to their performance. I am certainly not suggesting that this is an easy problem to solve but these students/people didn't ask to be born trans and they cannot be treated unequally just because you don't like or understand the concept of being transgendered and their having equality. Are the CIS teens complaining or it is someone else who are saying that trans kids need to be set apart from their classmates because of their birth biology is incongruent from their psychological gender identity?
From my perspective, it seems that trans people are an easy lighting rod for conservatives to attack because first it was the bathroom bills, despite the fact that trans people have never attacked anyone in the bathroom. They are usually the victim and their rate of being killed for who they are ranks at or near the very top.
Wow, pithy. /s
So now you're claiming that "A very small minority" is a majority." Got ya.
Are you one of those rare conservatives that supports 'participation' trophies? I only coached on year of softball in Chicago a LONG time ago. Everyone made the team.
You are clearly very “vested” in this conversation. I wish you the best in your endeavors but not at the sake of others. I’m not up on all terminology of this topic so let me simplify it once again.
It is absolutely ridiculous trying to rationalize that it is somehow fair and equal to allow biological boys to compete in girls sports. The average boy athlete will dominate the average girl athlete thus putting the all the girls at a significant disadvantage and shitting all over the progress made for women via title nine
it is one of the crazier progressive notions i’ve ever heard. Right along with free college for everyone.
Ridculous!
Again, if the shoe fits, put that sucker on and lace it up.
I can’t make it any clearer for you. Feel free to keep trying to obfuscate what I’ve said here. You’ll be playing with yourself from this point forward so enjoy!
So .... everyone makes the softball team in Chicago? Nice! Did everyone get to start as well? Wouldn’t want to hurt any feelings now would we.
There's really no such thing as "male sports." Sports are sports. As it happens, males tend to be better at most sports than females, so where those sports are competitive, males tend to be the ones to make the team. Thus, alternative opportunities were created for females, excluding males from participating. If males weren't excluded, we would have the same scenario we had before; i.e. sports programs that are almost entirely male.
The title of this article is false. If 8 of the 236 votes came from Republicans that means 7 Dems did not vote for it. But it is the Daily Caller so, no surprise there.
It is also cherry picking one small aspect of the bill in order to condemn it.
It is also cherry picking one small aspect of the bill in order to condemn it.
That's very usual for the right.
Yep. And instead of asking to amend that one little section, they will just use it as an excuse to scrap the whole bill.
What little section would you amend, and why?
Surely the Democrats who co-sponsored the bill (it was just about every one of them) could have read the bill first and amended it like normal, right?
Or is this just a Nancy bill that had to be passed to see what was in it?
Why would I amend it? I am not the one that has a problem with it.
I am not against equal rights and protections.
Why would anyone amend it?
What part would be amended?
I mean, you were the one who brought amending it up.
Neither am I, but then again, I wasn't the one who brought up amending it.
Personally, I would scrap the whole thing and forget amending it at all.
If your for equal rights and protections, why would you scrap the whole thing?
Because it is totally unnecessary.
We have equal rights.
Bullshit.
Those in the LGBT community can loose their jobs, their homes, the right to adopt, all based on where they live.
Equal rights shouldn't be based on what state or town you live in.
So you support this bill.
And pigs with wings.
You appear to have an unique ability to read what I don't post.
Either that, or you are just being intellectually lazy and dishonest by attempting to put words in my mouth. Typical ploy when you have nothing else to offer.
Doesn't work for me.
Took me all of a 30-second Google search to find out that 7 Democrats did not vote. So every Democrat who actually voted voted for it.
Whew! That was so damn hard………………….
LOL!
Nice job pointing out the deflection spin on that comment.
Hey, you know it is hard---Googling AND math together!
Oh no!
The article claims that it was a unanimous vote by Dems. That's still false no matter how you try to pretend otherwise. When you agree that 7 dems did not vote you are also saying they did not vote for this bill. That's how our language works.
Maybe someone else can explain the definition of unanimous to you. I gave you the definition, but I can't understand it for you.
If no Democrats voted against it, and every Democrat who voted voted for it, yes, it was unanimous.
Damn, this ain't rocket science,
Try this - The adjective unanimous comes from the similar Latin word unanimus, which means “of one mind.” So when people think unanimously, they all have the same idea in their heads. A vote is unanimous when all voters are in agreement. Said Marcus Cicero, “Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.”
Too much information?
Unanimous:
u·nan·i·mous
[yo͞oˈnanəməs]
ADJECTIVE
(of two or more people) fully in agreement.
"the doctors were unanimous in their diagnoses"
synonyms:
united · in complete agreement · in complete accord · of one mind · like-minded · of the same mind · in harmony · at one · with one voice · concordant · undivided · consentient
(of an opinion, decision, or vote) held or carried by everyone involved.
synonyms:
uniform · consistent · solid · united · concerted · congruent · undivided
Seems like the article headline is 100% correct.
Why dispute the unvarnished truth?
Obviously because it's not even in the same universe as truth much less the "unvarnished" version of it since you yourself have shown that this vote was not unanimous by Dems since 7 of them did not vote and therefore, by logic and language, DID NOT VOTE FOR THIS BILL. You do not get to corrupt both the arithmetic and the language to make it otherwise no matter how determined you are to make a false claim.
Oh, FFS.
I will do this just once more.
Read this and see if anyone on your end can explain it to you:
(of an opinion, decision, or vote) held or carried by everyone involved.
synonyms:
uniform · consistent · solid · united · concerted · congruent · undivided
NO DEMOCRATS VOTED AGAINST IT. Every Democrat who voted was for it. That is what makes it unanimous among Democrats.
SMMFH
There is a sport where men and women compete against each other and have for years.
The Iditarod, The Last Great Race On Earth.
The Iditarod ® Race is truly a race among equals, women and men. There is no separate race for women , no special privileges, no mercy. Women compete toe-to-toe with men—and they have a history of victory.
998 miles in some of the most treacherous areas of the world. Crossing two mountain ranges it stretches the competitors to their physical and mental limits.
Just finishing this race is a great accomplishment.
In it's history women have won the event 5 times. This year Ally Zirkle finished 4th. She also has three 2nd places finishes in this race.
Men and women also compete equally in motorsports. We are powered by gasoline instead of dog chow.
They also compete in horse racing. They are powered by horsepower instead of gasoline.
Need to add the other pic Kavika -
Have you not seen, ''Chariots of Fire''
All the usual sorts are carping about trans-males getting on women's sports teams but ignoring the fact that this law also also trans-females to play on men's teams. That would seem to me to be a much more likely thing to happen but why doesn't that spark the high dudgeon from the Constant Belly-ache Community?
Since this is turning into a urinary olympics about definitions between physical and mental "sexes" - gonna close it down.
Good discussions for the most part.
Thanks.