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World swimming bans transgender athletes from women's events

Discussion in 'Current Events' started by Oldyoungin, Jun 20, 2022.

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  1. Pixie

    Pixie Well-Known Member

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    Not at all.
    I am delighted.
    Beware of stereotyping without borders. You will usually be wrong.
     
    Pixie, Jun 21, 2022
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    I was curious what the reaction would be but I've seen very little opposition to the move. I certainly support it. So I'm not sure where you see this 'explosion'....
     
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  3. Bluesguy

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    Remember when the women's national team played the 15 year old boys team and got their butts kicked!
     
    Bluesguy, Jun 21, 2022
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    Yeah so funny and epic. Equal pay but you can't beat a bunch of high school aged boys.
     
    Oldyoungin, Jun 21, 2022
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    Point taken. I mentioned simply because of the lefty news media all clamoring to produce the most hyperbolic of responses...
     
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    The TOP LPGA players longest drives hardly make it into the bottom 20% of the PGA players. Some would say OK they get to play from the lady's tees. Well does that mean women runners get to start from the "women's" blocks or women swimmers get to jump in first and get a half pool length head start?

    And the women's soccer team did not want to take the risk of having a major part of their compensation based on the league income, like a commission. You know risk that men are more likely to take. So they took a fixed amount. The men came out great with the risk they took and then the women cried "THAT'S NOT FAIR"!!!!!
     
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    Physically that has always been the case. Biology 101 shows that on average, men are physically stronger than women. Its time you woke up to that fact.
     
    Kal'Stang, Jun 21, 2022
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    until someone creates a machine that can change x and y chromosomes,, there is no such thing as "transgender" , you may use the term "trans" correctly tho' as long as you acknowledge it is "transdressers"
     
    ToddWB, Jun 21, 2022
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    Lol…how parochial.
     
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    I mean at the end of the day, sports is entertainment. Pay is based on how many eyeballs you draw....or your MLB baseball and you get paid because of the large network contracts with cable providers.
     
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    Transvestite.
     
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    Thanx.. the term had escaped my vocabulary.
     
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    So what,?
    All the more reason why men who think they are women should not compete against naturally born women.
    Women dont have to be stronger. There are sports such as ice dance which dont need strength as much as ability.
    Compétition should at least be between those of equal foundation.
     
    Pixie, Jun 21, 2022
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    You're arguing against the wind here. I agree men should not compete against women.
     
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    That wasn't really my principle point.
    I also argued that strength is not always the ultimate winning attribute.
    It depends which sport you are considering.
     
    Pixie, Jun 21, 2022
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    I used to play competitive billiards, there were men’s and women’s leagues. Go figure.
     
    Steve N, Jun 21, 2022
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    No idea.
    Same in the UK darts teams. I suspect that has to do with historical class/pub culture more than anything else.
     
    Pixie, Jun 21, 2022
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    We are not physically equal and never have been. There are things women can do that men can't and vice versa. Read a book or something.
     
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    Or how about the time the Williams sisters decided that no man was a match for their Gurl Power!

    A 200th-ranked male tennis player on the downslope of his career dispelled their foolish notions.

    When Serena Williams and Venus Williams Lost to a Male ...
    https://www.essentiallysports.com › Tennis
    Jan 19, 2021 — Former German tennis players recalls an episode when he beat Serena Williams and Venus Williams during the 1998 Australian Open.
     
    Creasy Tvedt, Jun 21, 2022
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    True, drags are always on level pavement, usually in a kind of field.
     
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    Trying to create equality out of unequal parts is a failure.
     
    jcarlilesiu, Jun 21, 2022
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    I remember this forum having leftists in it defending the idea that men and women are the same, even physically. My oh my how a couple years have changed perspectives lol. I mean, imagine being so foolish you could ever have actually been convinced that men and women are equal physically lol. Men are not women, and vice versa.

    these are the exact type of people whom would have been convinced by Hitler that Jews were evil. They were literally convinced men are no stronger or faster than women on avg, especially in the athletics. They belong to the portion of our population that can be convinced of anything if you have an authority tell them.
     
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    That concept proved too challenging for our science believing liberal friends.
     
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