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Lia Thomas Loses Bid for NCAA Woman of the Year Award
Biologial male âtransgenderâ swimmer Will âLiaâ Thomasâ bid for NCAAâs 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 Iâm adamantly against trans women competing on equal terms in womenâs 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 womenâs 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. Thereâs no need to the writer to put those things in quotation marks, thatâs just being an arsehole.
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@JC Youâre 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.
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I'm starting to err to the right-wing on this.
@JC said in Trans in sport / Laurel Hubbard:
Whatever we think about the impact of trans activism on womenâs 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. Thereâs no need to the writer to put those things in quotation marks, thatâs just being an arsehole.
See I think I do agree with the above.
But, and Imentioned this on another thread a while back, lots going on in my world these days with menopause. As all this goes down, I'm learning more and more about the female part of the reproduction cycle. Not what you learn in school, the real world. The hormone changes etc. Watching my wife go through two pregnancies was amazing, and honestly, completely unrelatable. Now, as the monthly cycles are changing, it's really shit. And we, as blokes have to be honest here. We really got the good end of the deal. As much as we joke about 1 grumpy week a month etc, it really is much more than that and most of it, in fact almost all of it ... is pretty shithouse.
Thus, I think woman have every right in the world, to be up in arms when trans woman are treated 100% like woman.
Unless you go through all of that, I just can't see how you really understand what it actually means to be a woman & why you should be granted all of the rights that are associated with that.
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@MajorRage said in Trans in sport / Laurel Hubbard:
I'm starting to err to the right-wing on this.
Lovely phrasing.
100% agree with the entire post, BTW.For what it's worth: The one person I've met "IRL" - with the most virulent opinions on this - has a vagina, and fucking detests trans in women-categorised classes.
I still don't know what the answer is, but the best idea I've heard so far is dismissing "Mens" and "Womens" classifications in sport (fuck, it's sexist, innit?) - and bring in "Open", and ... let each individual agency open up whatever other catergories the fuck they want...
Weight, Current-Testosterone, Testosterone-as-measured-at-puberty, height, identified-sexuality, current-penis-or-vagina, birth-penis-or-vagina, fucking... whatever they want.
Boxing/UFC categorises by weight... is that fattist? Just... Open or "choose the class you want to compete in, and change your weight, dick, whatever - to reach the limit" -
To complicate matters further... I watched something recently where some 'disabled' dude wanted to be able to compete in the Olympics against 'non-disabled'...
I think he was a long-jumper?
And had a prosthetic leg.
A prosthetic leg that was literally a fucking spring.
He's gonna nail the "Open" class. So then... Olympics categories become... "Open", "non-prosthetic-with-birth-dick", "non-prosthetic-with-birth-vagina", "non-prosthetic-who-tested-below-testerone-level-X-at-age-12", etc -
@broughie said in Trans in sport / Laurel Hubbard:
@JC Youâre 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.
As I said I donât agree with their right to compete, and I also admit that he may be a bit cynical in what theyâre doing. But thatâs not my point, which is that you can make all of those arguments without being a dick about it.
Putting âtransgenderâ and âLiaâ in quotes are unnecessary provocations. Lia Thomas considers herself to be a transgender woman, which is her right. She calls herself Lia, which is as uncontroversial as me saying call me Bob.
I can disagree that a trans woman is identical to a natal woman - which I do - or that trans women should be able to compete against natal women - which I do - without denigrating Lia Thomas or other trans people or insinuating that they are all charlatans. And so can the author.
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@JC I get where you are coming from and if I met him I would call him Lia and be friendly but if I was there where he won that NCAA event I would have made a statement. Turned my back perhaps.
TownHall is a conservative rag whose audience is what it is. Conservative media is a minority compared to liberal media. Conservatives are slammed with far worse, for differences in opinion, than your concerns in this article. Disagreement results in the typical name-calling with any âphobeâ suffix that can be added.
So the conservative side in the States has started to push back. Right or wrong but the bear has been poke and quiet hard working people are expressing themselves more and not accepting someone saying the sky is red when it is not. The Dems will be displaced this election cycle because they donât support common sense ideas.
So this is the context. This is why Trump was popular because he fought back. Not always in the kindest way. That is why I would prefer DeSantis. He is confrontational without being nasty.
Appreciate your thoughts and we really are not far apart.
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@ploughboy said in Trans in sport / Laurel Hubbard:
thought i would add this story here.
A hamilton netball club have a trans player playing for them in the premier grade. that player punched another player in a game . she/it/them received a two week ban.Two week ban for pucnhing in a non contact sport? Jesus.
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@ploughboy said in Trans in sport / Laurel Hubbard:
thought i would add this story here.
A hamilton netball club have a trans player playing for them in the premier grade. that player punched another player in a game . she/it/them received a two week ban.Not to mention blokes can usually hit harder than women.
Shit, is it sexist/bigoted/misogynistic of me to say that ? I hope not !!!!
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I get where people come from talking about "open" categories and split them up by weight etc, but the male/female categories are by far the most important. An 80kg male is stronger than an 80kg female basically every time. The top male atheletes outperform the top female atheletes by some margin, there's no overlap between the sexes at all at that level.
So whatever way you split an open category it's still going to be absolutely dominated by men, you will just kill off any chance of a female playing professional sport.
But maybe that needs to happen before females take more of a stand. Really they should be refusing to play against trans females altogether, but I believe overall females are actually more supportive of them competing than men are. So until more females take a stand this will just continue to happen.
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@No-Quarter There's plenty of females taking a stand. From what I've been watching, the tide is turning.
I always suggested the open and female categories, because on the surface it provided trans opportunities to participate. The reality is it prevented them from interfering in women's sport.
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@antipodean yeah there is more and more taking a stand, my comment was referring to 1) studies show women are more supportive of trans athletes overall than men, and 2) the only way for this madness to end is for women to actually refuse to compete against them, as it doesn't appear many sporting bodies have the balls to draw a line in the sand.
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@No-Quarter said in Trans in sport / Laurel Hubbard:
@antipodean yeah there is more and more taking a stand, my comment was referring to 1) studies show women are more supportive of trans athletes overall than men, and 2) the only way for this madness to end is for women to actually refuse to compete against them, as it doesn't appear many sporting bodies have the balls to draw a line in the sand.
Re point 2, I don't think women refusing to compete against male-bodied athletes will work for the simple reason that for many trans activists this isn't about the sports at all. It's about acceptance that trans women are women, full stop. Agreeing to an open class would be a concession on that argument, which for them is the red line. I think that in the minds of many activists they would rather all sports goes on the bonfire than they give up ground on the fundamental principle that there should be no differentiation between a trans woman and a natal woman, so refusing to compete would mean they shrug and say OK let the sport die.
I think we also need to consider the possibility that there may be a significant overlap between people who are trans activists and people who believe that competitive sport is irrelevant or even damaging.
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@JC said in Trans in sport / Laurel Hubbard:
Re point 2, I don't think women refusing to compete against male-bodied athletes will work for the simple reason that for many trans activists this isn't about the sports at all. It's about acceptance that trans women are women, full stop. Agreeing to an open class would be a concession on that argument, which for them is the red line. I think that in the minds of many activists they would rather all sports goes on the bonfire than they give up ground on the fundamental principle that there should be no differentiation between a trans woman and a natal woman, so refusing to compete would mean they shrug and say OK let the sport die.
I think we also need to consider the possibility that there may be a significant overlap between people who are trans activists and people who believe that competitive sport is irrelevant or even damaging.
Agree entirely. The activists are the real poison in the whole debate. Seemingly think they live in a society where everybody else is wrong, they are right, and anybody who disagrees must be destroyed.
They are best completely ignored if you ask me. There is a reason why so few actual trans woman get involved in these debates.
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