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Transgender man wins women's 100 yd and 400 yd freestyle races.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    I really don't know what other objective or logical answers you are seeking, what false dichotomies you are trying to wedge my responses into, etc. but since you are getting increasingly upset and angry I think we should just leave it there. I entreat you to re-read my posts and view them from a perspective other than your own. The public mob will not decide what best medical practices are, if you are asking me for my abjectly amateur opinions about hypothetical, counterfactual children you want me to decide to diagnose or medicate without knowing anything about themselves, their medical history, or indeed, not having any medical license. I think discussing that at that level on a message board is as useless, damaging and misleading as trying to give people legal advice on the internet. You come off as slamming the table that I won't join the pitchfork mob in 'saving the children.' Good day.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,321 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    Not sure how you think I am "upset" or "angry", you are free to read my posts in whatever tone you want, I can't control that for you.

    We can indeed leave it there, you do a lot of mental gymnastics in the thread to avoid answering any questions at all, it is tiring. You said before that this was a debate, you have not debated anything from what I can tell or see.

    Have a good one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal



    Not sure how you think I am "upset" or "angry"

    Allow me to highlight that for you:

    "That is a long winded answer of nothing, again. And another avoidance of the question...AGAIN!"

    "are you in favour of that child receiving hormone blockers? Not if they are in precocious puberty or found their daddies testosterone gel.

    "Try answer that, just try, go on."

    You still haven't answered my question: what, exactly, are you trying to argue?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,321 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    That is text on a screen my friend, you read it in your own tone 😃



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    What, exactly, are you trying to argue, and what are you trying to get me to agree with you on? Please be specific.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,823 ✭✭✭DeadHand


    Indeed.

    Misogyny is the hidden heart of political transgenderism.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,321 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    You said I was "angry" and "upset", I am neither. I believe we said we would leave this, no?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 725 ✭✭✭mjsc1970


    Right. 136 pages in.

    Transgender Man (Identifies as Man, but critically, no medical procedure or drugs or testosterone involved) wins Women's race of some sort = So what. No one cares. This is not news. At all.

    TransWomen win various women's sporting races/events = Sorry. This is not on. In a sporting context. Ever. Just No.

    TransWomen/Men self determining their Gender as opposite to their Sex, or Non Binary = All good. Zero issues with this.

    But when it comes to sport, the sex categories are there for a reason. They are not their to appease your feelings.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Caitlynn Jenner is a misogynist?

    What is "political transgenderism?"



  • Posts: 2,263 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Caitlyn Jenner is opposed to biological males competing in women's sport.

    A former Olympic athlete, too. I suggest her opinion on the matter is worth listening to.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    But when it comes to sport, the sex categories are there for a reason. They are not their to appease your feelings.

    It's beginning to sound like it's exactly what they are there for. If we so chose we could just report bicycle and swimming race times, period, without dividing by category. It isn't a contact sport or anything. But people have placed a lot of emotional stock in the categorization, clearly, as in the case of people getting real out of sorts that a trans woman places in a high or top position in the womens division. People place an obsessive amount of importance on "who the fastest woman is" etc. instead of the fast human. Without this division, people decry an 'erasing of the existence of women' and all that other rhetorical clap.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,521 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    People are interested in who wins a competition, the "women's" bit is being dropped more often for reporting and people don't care, however people will be interested that Chelsea won the league and that it was the female league just as people who follow boxing don't always report the weight class (age does feature prominently for whatever reason). Those who follow will generally know implicitly.



  • Posts: 2,263 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    People place an obsessive amount of importance on "who the fastest woman is" etc. instead of the fast human.

    Athletes focus on winning.

    And if you categorize sport on who the fastest human would be (and equivalent in other women's sports), that would obliterate women's sport altogether. Men would win almost everything. The very reason why sex categorization exists to begin with.

    Up until about 5-years ago, this axiom didn't even need to be said.

    Furthermore, there was no "trans rights in sport movement" in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, and up to about a couple of years ago when - all of a sudden, almost overnight - very immediate demands started to be made. Social pressure and opportunism more than anything else. The experiment has failed, more people are aware of the wholly negative impact on women's sport and - most importantly of all - sporting bodies are starting to come to the same conclusions. Better late than never.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Furthermore, there were no "trans rights in sport movement" in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, and up to about a couple of years ago when - all of a sudden, almost overnight - very immediate demands started to be made.

    You're not even worth the effort, you don't fact check your own assertions ever:




  • Posts: 2,263 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I said movement.

    Of course there have been a handful of cases over the past half century, but there was no concerted movement - nothing like what we've seen over the past number of years.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    The first trans woman in sports is a movement. That's as feckless as annexing Rosa Parks from the Civil Rights Movement. This was a state supreme court case and everything. Yes it was a significant start of the trans in sports movement.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,716 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    These blockers still have the same risks when used to stop precocious puberty, which is nothing to do with "gender affirming care" so I don't know why you keep bringing it up.





  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Why do I keep bringing blockers up when people keep mentioning blockers, it's an enigma.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,716 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    Except that's not what I said is it? I said why do you keep bringing up precocious puberty (weirdly specifically in 2 year olds) when it's unrelated to gender affirming care.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Except that it is, it is encompassed within the term. These conservatives law banning gender affirming care are also excluding children with precocious puberties from receiving treatments:

    Now, under Senate Bill 480, it is illegal in Indiana to provide puberty blockers to minors to treat gender dysphoria. This ban’s language ensures that people like me, who have medical conditions that are not gender dysphoria, could access the necessary care. Here’s the catch: at 12, I came out as transgender. So, at 7, puberty blockers were the appropriate treatment for me, but five years later, they posed such a great danger to me that it was made illegal to prescribe them?

    I encourage people to use more specific language if they wish to only discuss a specific thing in a narrow way.



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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 30,096 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    This doesn't seem particularly relevant to the topic, but off-label prescribing is an issue for lots of drugs. They are not FDA approved for treating gender dysphoria. I don't really get how often the same people who mocked people taking "horse dewormer" (it is approved for use in humans) for covid are now apparently fine with off-label use of drugs.

    Its a complicated area, but its ultimately not relevant to sports.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Of course it is relevant to sports, even going by the posts of others in the thread:

    but critically, no medical procedure or drugs or testosterone involved

    the use of medical procedures and hormone therapy, and whether they have been applied or not, has been raised as a critical aspect of this topic.



  • Posts: 2,263 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    This pretty much sums it up, completely.

    It doesn't address the question of the inherent advantages of biological males in women's sport - as adult athletes; it's instead a wholly diversionary tactic.



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 30,096 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    Of course it is relevant to sports, even going by the posts of others in the thread:

    Fine, I'll put it differently. The primary issue with transgender females participating in sport is that they have undergone male puberty. There is an open question as to whether those who have not done so are actually at an advantage and, for example, World Rugby do not currently restrict them. Whether kids should undergo such things before puberty is not relevant to the topic.

    Whether or not adults have undergone surgery or hormone treatment does not seem to matter in eliminating the inherent advantage based on what evidence we do have at the moment.

    Adults who have undergone neither obviously have a massive advantage.



  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,715 ✭✭✭hometruths


    Like Caitlyn Jenner her opinions are probably worth listening to.

    Richards has since expressed ambivalence about her legacy, and came to believe her past as a man provided her with advantages over her competitors, saying "Having lived for the past 30 years, I know if I'd had surgery at the age of 22, and then at 24 went on the tour, no genetic woman in the world would have been able to come close to me. And so I've reconsidered my opinion."


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  • Posts: 2,263 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Many female athletes will quit women's sport if a biological male they cannot beat, enters the competition.

    We've seen this already in the case of Hannah Arensman, who quit her Olympic dream after being beaten by the trans cyclist, Austin Killips.

    A female cyclist who gave up her dream of competing at the Olympics after losing to a biological male has said the experience 'hurt on a million different levels'.

    Hannah Arensman, 24, quit cyclocross after also receiving abuse from a left-wing, Antifa gun club which protested at her final race after claiming 'there's a massive TERF [trans-exclusionary radical feminists] problem in cycling'.

    Arensman is a 35-time winner on the national cyclocross circuit and previously opened up in heartbreaking detail about her decision to leave the sport, saying the inclusion of trans competitors meant she would 'lose no matter how hard I train'.

    She quit the sport after losing out on a podium spot to trans rider Austin Killips in the Women Elite category at the 2022 National Cyclocross Championships in December. It would be her final competitive race.

    Again, we can have all the hormones and philosophical / academic debates, but this is the actual reality for many women in their own sporting field.

    This is the same Austin Killips who pushed Hannah mid-race off her bike, and the same Austin Killips that recently won a North Carolina cycling race by 5-minutes.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    I understand that's the strand/sub-thread a lot are largely focusing on. I'm not taking a side on that either, I've already ceded I'm not a sports expert, I'm no athlete, I'm cisgendered, I'm therefore the wrong person to ask, and agnostic about what the competition/admittance rules should specifically be. What I've discussed is where these concerns overlap, even conflict, with public policy on gender care for minors and trans/intersex sports participation by minors up through and including college even. There is a school of though that wants the competitors to be understandably 'fairly matched,' the highest virtues of sporting competition; that argument given current scientific rational requires them to have a certain hormone level depending on the division they are in, and may even require them as you said to have never undergone a puberty, especially a male puberty, because of broadly-speaking physical advantages in male physique. But therefore, what then - that gives the message that if a child is trans, understand themselves to be trans, is diagnosed with gender dysphoria, AND they have a passion for sports, a ticking clock is being put on them to stave off puberty or never be accepted into or fitting into sports as those advocates suggest they should, ie. allowed to be a trans woman competitor who never underwent a male puberty. And that is in direct conflict with another school of thought, also expressed by views in this thread, that such prevention of a male puberty, precocious or otherwise, is a defacto immoral practice that ought to be banned. Therefore, there is serious crises about that child's right to peaceably play sports, and to exist in a similar sense to that expressed here in defense of womanhood.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Second place went to 17-year-old Ava Holmgren of Canada, who was just one second slower than Killips. Third place went to fellow American Lizzy Gunsalus, a 19-year-old, who was just six seconds slower than the winner.

    And Killips placed third, not first or second, with Arensman reported as a close 4th. Her assertions that she would 'lose no matter how hard she trains' are baloney, she wouldn't have said the same thing if 3rd place was another woman, she was already soundly beat to the finish by 2 others.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,232 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    This is bizarre and ludicrous nonsense. Nobody advocates puberty blockers for toddlers who might be trans. Nobody.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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  • Posts: 2,263 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    If Killips were in the male division, she would have performed much, much worse.

    What we invariably see is that biological males in their own category, perform really badly. As soon as they transition to women, they are suddenly - miraculously - in the top 5 in the women's competition.

    We never see the same regularity on the other side - i.e. stories of biological females transitioning to become males, who then suddenly perform better against biological males.

    That imbalance speaks volumes.

    Take the case of Lia Thomas.

    Before transitioning, Thomas was nationally ranked #462 in the NCAA men’s official swimming competitions.

    After transitioning, Thomas jumped to #1 in the NCAA women’s category.

    This pattern repeats itself over and over and over again.

    Nobody is arguing that all trans athletes will always win first place. What we're arguing is that they have an unfair advantage.



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