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@booboo After the 6N, right?
No answers, just sharing "learnings" as I never looked at this before
CAS's position on "sex in sport" re-Semenya just seems illogical if taken in isolation (a stop-gap measure which I can understand)
And I don't think participating in elite-level sport is a Human Rights issue too ... I half expect the ECHR to not hear it at all for that reason
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@no-quarter said in Trans in sport / Laurel Hubbard:
"6-7 years" doesn't sound particularly scientific, and I think the jury is still out on that. Benefitting from elevated testosterone levels through puberty/teenage years is undoubtedly a big advantage that would take a LOT of work to undo - to the point that allowing biological males to compete in female divisions is probably never going to be a level playing field.
Yeah, just found it interesting she thought a longer period was needed than we're ever hearing talked about at all. She follows the science, was on puberty blockers, and then testosterone blockers due to her DSD ... quite similar to a trans woman, while being XX female ... and a decent athlete, if not elite-level
She sees a role for medical gatekeeping (case-by-case) to look at other developmental advantages like bone density that occur during puberty
Good to talk to someone like that, without the gender ideology aspect coming into it at all
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Oh goodie, the doing away with gender specific uniforms will open up the ability to wear the official school brassiere by XY chromosome students with no questions asked or fingers pointed now!
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"Having a head boy and head girl “just didn’t sit right” with the school’s principal and deputy principal, so they introduced four head student positions instead.
“We didn’t want to define the students by the gender for those roles,” said Kylie Horgan, deputy principal. “We have got a lot of gender-neutral students, probably a higher percentage than most schools, which is great, we celebrate that."
So no difference other than you now have to ensure there's always at least two females.
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I can see how teenagers would be drawn to made up nonsense like "gender fluid", but adults should know better.
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@antipodean how long is it going to be, before some boy tries to enrol at a Girls School, or a Girl at an all Boys one and the media jump all over it claiming sexism/genderism/whatthefuckeverism
THE.WORLD.BE.FUCKEDED
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@taniwharugby said in Stupid shit you see on the internet:
@antipodean how long is it going to be, before some boy tries to enrol at a Girls School, or a Girl at an all Boys one and the media jump all over it claiming sexism/genderism/whatthefuckeverism
THE.WORLD.BE.FUCKEDED
A locals girls school (prep / private) has a student who wants to dress as a boy & be referred to as a boy.
My neighbours daughter goes there and she thinks it's not a big deal at all - basically just part of the way people are. Which is nice for trans people. The parents, on the whole, are very supportive of the situation as well. At least they were until one parent asked "ok, but what happens when a boy who wants to be a girl wants to enrol there" which apparently has changed peoples views somewhat ...
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@booboo said in Trans in sport / Laurel Hubbard:
Going to suggest we split the non-sport Trans debate out of the sports talk stuff.
Because I think there are different issues at play.
And if I sober up any time soon I shall do it. If any if you other mods see an opportunity and have the time ...
It's all related and leads to the completely absurd situations like males competing in female sports. We've got to stop shoving this absolute garbage down kids throats.
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@taniwharugby said in Trans in sport / Laurel Hubbard:
@antipodean how long is it going to be, before some boy tries to enrol at a Girls School, or a Girl at an all Boys one and the media jump all over it claiming sexism/genderism/whatthefuckeverism
THE.WORLD.BE.FUCKEDED
To be fair, we had a girl enrolled in our 6th form class at Whangarei Boys'. In 1976. Nobody died.
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@no-quarter said in Trans in sport / Laurel Hubbard:
@booboo said in Trans in sport / Laurel Hubbard:
Going to suggest we split the non-sport Trans debate out of the sports talk stuff.
Because I think there are different issues at play.
And if I sober up any time soon I shall do it. If any if you other mods see an opportunity and have the time ...
It's all related and leads to the completely absurd situations like males competing in female sports. We've got to stop shoving this absolute garbage down kids throats.
Kids don't usually care, and for under 12s, sports are generally not able to be separated by gender anyway (by law - S49 of the Human Rights Act) so it doesn't really come up (and legally can't). I don't want to get into the legal niceties around additional gendered events as a means of encouraging participation, but the general reasons behind that legal restriction is that gender/sex don't have a serious impact on sports for under 12s (there will no doubt be examples to the contrary, but that's where the line was drawn as a balance between inclusivity and safety).
For all the hypotheticals, can anyone point to a NZ-specific example of high school sports where it ever actually happened and the trans girl was the new clear best? Usually the complaints are that girls can't play in the boys competition which means they can't play at all since there is no girls competition, but maybe there are some examples somewhere of trans girls ruining competitions.
There are also trans boys and men overseas who have to compete in women's divisions etc because of these types of laws, which doesn't seem to work out that well either.
Also, what's Parliament's interest in legislating this? From their perspective, in terms of sports legislation currently active, the main thing they care about is participation in physically active sports and recreation which goes back to the benefits like cost savings to the health system from lifelong physical activity. If it was purely about things like competition and results, the legislation and funding priorities would be different. With that in mind, why would or should Parliament get involved?
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@Godder I'm obviously not talking about under 12s before puberty hits where there is little difference between boys & girls. Although if you convince a boy that is gender a-typical that he is actually a girl then that could become a problem when he hits his teenage years if he wants to compete as a girl.
I'm also not sure where you're going with government legislation? The only rule we need is that you can only compete in the category that matches your biological sex. It really that simple, someone's gender identity doesn't change their biology.
Also, it's not about trans women ruining women's sport, although that is starting to happen around the world. It's about protecting female only categories to make it fair. There's almost no overlap between men and women when it comes to physical attributes - an 80kg male will almost always be stronger than an 80kg female. A top male athlete will always be stronger than a top female athlete. So you get a male that is ranked way outside the top echelon in male sports suddenly go near the top when they start competing in female sports - that's just not fair to all of the female competitors.
And the wider issue is this whole trans movement is hyper focussed on stereotypical ideas of how men and women behave, which almost nobody fits into perfectly. Constantly focussing on these stereotypes is not good for children, we need to let kids be kids and not encourage them to put labels on themselves based on their interests and behaviours. It's little wonder so many are deciding they are gender neutral given how few people actually fit into the male/female stereotypes.
It's hard enough growing up in such an interconnected world as it is, we need to stop fucking with kids mental health with toxic shit like this.
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Did we ever stop to consider that the people who are advocating that trans women should be able to compete may actually despise competitive sport? I’d be interested in the intersection between them and the people who have been steering us towards versions of sports that don’t have winners and losers. Maybe they simply don’t care if it destroys women’s sports because that’s kinda their goal?
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@jc possibly a poor example but it reminds me of pro-life folks that promote options like adoption, but have no interest in adopting kids themselves. We don't want to be involved but we have a VERY strong opinion on what should happen.
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@paekakboyz I was somewhat bemused hearing the Greens pro-choice re gender or binary or whatever, yet they have sat back quietly with the Vaccine mandates...good to be able to pick and choose when you should give people a choice I guess.
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@taniwharugby I guess their position is that one is innate (ie born that way... or not!) and the other is a different type of autonomy question about your body and what you can be 'made' to do to it. But it gets murky pretty quickly aye.
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Striking a balance between fairness in competition and the rights of transgender athletes
Since there is no typical transgender athlete, broad rules don’t seem appropriate. But that’s exactly what legislation seeks to do.
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@godder That’s based on a false premise, i.e. that there if there is an obligation to legislate it is to define what a trans athlete is so that they can compete. It ignores that there is another legislation option. You can legislate to protect natal women’s sport and trans athletes become just another class who are shut out, along with us uncos and geriatrics.
It’s perfectly possible to legislate on the basis the you need to provide the best outcome for the greatest number of people, which at the end of the day is what underpins the concept of democracy.
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Didn’t know where to put this
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Transgender debate, in sport, in general
