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

So just getting back to the basics of this thread. Men in mens sports & women in women's sports, (same for the changing rooms), sorted, respect 👌

You can leave all the gender identity stuff outside the door of the velodrome, the basketball arena, pool hall, boxing ring, athletics track, swimming pool or football pitch, because ones chosen gender identity has nothing to do with human biology, ot physiology, which is where sport is at.

Think lung capacity, muscle fibres, triceps, biceps, quads, Q-Angle, bone density, bloods, heart size, rib cage, power & speed too ….

Men & women are different.

Love Riley Gaines ❤

You seem to be advocating that the most effective way to support female sports is to pay to spectate at female sports events. Is that correct?

Or do you accept that there are more ways than paying to spectate at a female sports event to support female sports then? Do you accept that many of those ways of supporting female sports are likely to be far more effective than merely paying to passively spectate at sports event?

And the final push here… does it cross your mind at all that someone who actively advocates for female sports, whether in real life, online, or both, is perhaps doing more than someone who literally passively spectates from the sidelines.

And what about someone like me who has not paid to spectate at any sports event in decades, because the sports I'm most involved with do not charge people to spectate? Am I now disbarred from advocating for female sports on the internet because I have not paid to spectate at a female sports event?

Very few people care about women's 8 ball pool apart from those who compete in it.

Still doesn't mean they're not entitled to fair play.

 how the nature of your support for women's sport is so much more effective than mine 

You are Tilting at Windmills, I didn't mention you nor did I pass any comment on what or how you support anything.

The post that you were replying to said this :

LOL I can't play in all the sports that exist! Nor even go to see them all. TBH I've never been a big fan of watching sports, though I do still practice some, but not as many nor as intensively as when I was younger. I still think access to sports is really important for the next generation though, including my own children, and now even grandchildren - well ok only one so far.

But worth fighting for IMO, and discussion about the issues on internet is as useful as anything else IMO. Raises awareness.

So now, because I agree with her points, I'm going to make as close to exactly the same points she did :

LOL I can't play in all the sports that exist! Nor even go to see them all. TBH I've never been as big fan of watching sports as partcipating in them, but I do still practice some, but not as many nor as intensively as when I was younger. I still think access to sports is really important for the next generation though (even though I have no kids of my own).

But worth fighting for IMO, and discussion about the issues on internet is as useful as anything else IMO. Raises awareness.

So I'm going to ask you again, given I'm making EXACTLY the same points that you responded to:

Can you tell us how much you're supporting womens' sports, and explain how the nature of your support for women's sport is so much more effective than mine that you think you can tell me that I'm only pretending to care, and wouldn't tilt my head sideways to watch any?

Or are you just a complete hypocrite who doesn't actually support womens sports, but would like to shut down an opinion you disagree with and seem incapable of engaging directly with?

No, it was me you replied to with that, after first wrongly assuming I was male and therefore (apparently, IYO) unfitted to have an opinion about female sports - although it seems that you feel that you, also male, are perfectly fitted - in your own mind - to hold an opinion on the same. Presumably because you think you hold the "right" opinion.

So perhaps you'd care to explain to me then why you think your opinions about women's sport in general, or even Women's pool in particular, are more valid than mine? What do you do IRL to promote women's sport - and what do I do?

Would you agree that a woman who practises any female sport and has daughters who practise different sports at various levels, is probably entitled to have a definite opinion on how female categories in general should be organised?

And TBC, my opinion is that if female categories exist, they shoudl be limited to females. If there's no need for single sex categories in a sport, then that's fine too - but rules need to be explicit. A pretence of having single sex categories while not really having them in practice is the worst of both worlds.

If you can explain why that is wrong, I'm all ears.

The irony of you trying to tell other posters that they shouldn't be actively advocating by posting here

You think the people who run 8 ball tournaments are reading your posts?

I doubt it.

Do you realise that we can see what you've posted before? This is the absolute bovine manure which you posted :

If you want to support women's sports though best go to an event and pay to watch it, instead of white knighting on the internet.

Can you tell us how much you're supporting womens' sports when you're not ranting and raving in this thread on the internet, and explain how the nature of your support for women's sport is so much more effective than mine? And also explain how I have no interest in womens' sports, but you have enough that you feel you are "allowed" by your own standards to rant and rave in this thread?

Can you explain how you feel you can post in this thread rather than spend the time getting involved with sports? I'd imagine most people would think that's a prefectly acceptable question to ask of you when you're telling people that they should be doing something other than posting in this thread.

Or are you just a complete hypocrite who doesn't actually support womens sports, but would like to shut down an opinion you disagree with and seem incapable of engaging directly with?

So can you tell me what you know about the poster who you told :

If you want to support women's sports though best go to an event and pay to watch it, instead of white knighting on the internet.

I don't know anything about the poster they didn't volunteer.

 TBH I've never been a big fan of watching sports

You will have to take it up with them.

So why do you think it's irrelevant for you when you hypocritically assert that other people need to show an interest before they can post in this thread?