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@Victor-Meldrew said in Olympics Thread:
Not a good Olympic look, but could become one of the memories of these games.
Good on that woman.
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Actually, having read the thread on @Victor-Meldrew 's post my feelings have morphed a bit.
Carini didn't pull out on principal. She didn't make a choice. She got smacked, and smacked hard, and pulled out as self-preservation. Should not have been put in that position.
Poor girl.
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@MajorRage said in Olympics Thread:
So it turns out this Algerian competitor is not trans, but has XY chromosomes ...
I'm not touching this debate again.
Not even pretending to be a woman
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Absolutely
She’ll never get a Damehood
But she should
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“I am heartbroken. I was told a lot of times that I was a warrior but I preferred to stop for my health. I have never felt a punch like this. After the second blow to the nose, I couldn’t breathe any more. I went to my coach and said ‘enough’. It could have been the match of a lifetime, but I had to preserve my life as well in that moment.”
Males have higher bone density than females, among a host of other advantages, even with DSD as they still had elevated levels of testosterone during puberty. It's self evident that a male punching a female will do more damage than a male punching a male. In a combat sport I just cannot believe they have allowed it, the science on this and also trans women is clear and easy to understand.
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@No-Quarter said in Transgender debate, in sport, in general:
In a combat sport I just cannot believe they have allowed it, the science on this and also trans women is clear and easy to understand.
this goes into the 'gnarly' camp though. This is not trans-related. This is about where the blurry line between male and female with intersex cuts off. The fighter has XY chromosomes.
I don't have an answer for that, but it appears the IOC line (passport gender) is not the same as the combat sports governing body line.
This sucks for basically everyone. Someone is going to lose, and it is going to be shitty
Edit: ignore me, brainfart. XX = female, not XY.
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Great, now we get three days of 'what is a woman' chat featuring some of the dumbest people you've ever seen voicing their opinions on boxing, a sport they have never watched.
More than happy to sit out of it and check back in if/when you've all come to a resolution.
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@nzzp it's not a blurry line at all. You are either male (XY) with DSD (Differences of sex development) or you are female (XX) with DSD. The males with DSD should absolutely never be competing in the women's sports categories.
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@No-Quarter right you are.
Brain fade - I thought XY was female. Will edit post.
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@barbarian I hadn't caught up with this thread so went and posted in the one in the Politics forum, I think that's the best place for it, should try to keep this one as a celebration of all of the other deserving athletes at the games.
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@No-Quarter said in Transgender debate, in sport, in general:
Letting males with DSD compete against biological women is just insane. When the hell will this madness end.
Words fail me on this one. The fact this farce was even sanctioned is just shameful.
Of course JK will get ripped apart by rabid trans folk accusing her of all sorts of horrific prejudices. Standard.
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Allowing them to compete in some female sports is one thing , but combat sports is on another level of sickening for the majority .
What I do find interesting, the most vocal people against this appear to be men if the internet is anything to go by , because most decent men know there is nothing more cowardly than hitting a woman , but the feminists are quiet.
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@kiwiinmelb said in Transgender debate, in sport, in general:
Allowing them to compete in some female sports is one thing , but combat sports is on another level of sickening for the majority .
What I do find interesting, the most vocal people against this appear to be men if the internet is anything to go by , because most decent men know there is nothing more cowardly than hitting a woman , but the feminists are quiet.
Yeah at least in the 100 metres or weightlifting ( thanks heaps for putting us on the map there Laurel ) nothing gets hurt but pride.
This is another thing entirely and potentially fucken dangerous.
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@MajorRage said in Transgender debate, in sport, in general:
So it turns out this Algerian competitor is not trans, but has XY chromosomes ...
I'm not touching this debate again.
Worth noting that there's been very few facts offered in this debate, just shit slinging from both sides.
The competitor was banned by the IBC - a notoriously corrupt organisation - but not by the IOC. There's been no evidence provided about the chromosome make-up of the competitor.
I do think it's entirely unfair to label the competitor as a man, however. There are intricacies to this debate that seem to have been overlooked by the masses (on both sides) in favour of fear-mongering.
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@Mr-Fish said in Transgender debate, in sport, in general:
@MajorRage said in Transgender debate, in sport, in general:
So it turns out this Algerian competitor is not trans, but has XY chromosomes ...
I'm not touching this debate again.
Worth noting that there's been very few facts offered in this debate, just shit slinging from both sides.
So facts such as "banned from competing in the world champs due to failing a sex test" don't count?
But I guess that corrupt IBC just faked the chromosome and testostone tests...
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