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@Kid-Chocolate There'd be thousands of 15 year old boys in America better at soccer than her. They should all identify and get selected to shut her up.
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@booboo said in Trans in sport / Laurel Hubbard:
A number of comments:
- Well done FINA. Nearly got it right. The whole puberty thing still leaves it open. Don't know about you but in my lived experience growing up I really can't recall any prepubescent girl being more athletic that the boys in my classes at school.
My daughter raced in the NSW State Cross Country last weekend - she is 12, the race was for 12/13yrs so racing up a year. Also racing up a year was a 12yr old girl called Eliza Lawton who won with a time of 10:03 on a hilly 3km grass circuit.
Her time was also fast enough to win the equivalent 12/13 boys race (by 1s but still) - racing up a year!!!
Insane - remember that name, if she stays healthy she'll be an Olympian for sure
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@voodoo wonder if she is related to the Lawton family that produced several Wallabies over different generations?
This is a rugby site, so thought I’d ask
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@ACT-Crusader said in Trans in sport / Laurel Hubbard:
@voodoo wonder if she is related to the Lawton family that produced several Wallabies over different generations?
This is a rugby site, so thought I’d ask
Dunno, think her Father was a national-level runner though
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@booboo on point 1, when I was in grade 5, I tried out for the school Aussie rules team. There were about 80 boys from across grade 5 and 6 that tried out. Only me and one other grade 5 boy made the team and the rest were grade 6 kids. A few of us convinced one of our friends, a grade 6 girl, to try out too.
She would play footy at lunch time with and knew how to play.
She was tall and slim and could jump higher than the rest of us. She was fast too. She made the team as our ruck.
This wasn’t a case of making up the numbers or some crusade by a teacher. This was 35 years ago and sure there were no girls teams for footy, but she could play and her athleticism was too good to pass over.
She wore headgear and a mouth guard like a couple of the boys in the team.
She was easily in the top 3 best players for us.
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@ACT-Crusader @voodoo there's 2
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Megan Rapinoe: Banning Transgender Athletes from Women's Sports Is 'Disgusting'
In an interview this week, U.S. women’s soccer player Megan Rapinoe called bans on transgender
Rapinoe’s recent activist logic:
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Demands equal pay for “women” athletes.
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Insists that sheilas with testicles qualify as “women.”
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What a difference a day makes.
Pt 1: Sunday, June 19
Pt 2: Monday, June 20
FIFA, World Athletics review transgender rules after swimming's change
World soccer's governing body FIFA and World Athletics said on Monday that they are reviewing their transgender eligibility policies after swimming passed new rules that restrict transgender participation in women's events.
Thank god somebody at FINA had a spine and common sense. FINA leads, FIFA follows.
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I really hope s/he wins.
The University of Pennsylvania has nominated transgender swimmer Lia Thomas for the 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year award, the American college sports regulating body said.
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@MajorRage I'm with @Kid-Chocolate
Just for the shits and giggles.
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Party time, excellent.
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Sounds a good outcome.
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Lia Thomas Loses Bid for NCAA Woman of the Year Award
Biologial male “transgender” swimmer Will “Lia” Thomas’ bid for NCAA’s 2022 Woman of the Year came t
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@Kid-Chocolate thank goodness. Never should have been considered.
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@Kid-Chocolate I’m adamantly against trans women competing on equal terms in women’s sports, and I think Thomas does sports no favours on that front.
But I have to say the article you linked to is a shitty piece of writing.
Whatever we think about the impact of trans activism on women’s lives, Lia Thomas is perfectly entitled to call herself Lia and to refer to herself as a trans woman if she wants, and she hurts nobody if she does so. There’s no need to the writer to put those things in quotation marks, that’s just being an arsehole.
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@JC You’re right that he can call himself whatever he wants to but Thomas is biologically male whether he likes it or not. No amount of hormones and bodily reconstruction can change this. He has invited criticism but competing against females with an unfair advantage. Thomas knows this whether he admits to it or not. Trans athletes have injected themselves into these situations where common sense dictates it is wrong. Trans athletes should create their own competitions and not disrupt biological norms of competition.
Transgender debate, in sport, in general
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