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

Sorry the above post should have quoted this one!

LOL, you got caught out and can't give an answer so you run for the hills. Priceless.

Except earlier on you clearly thought you did know something, since you told me I had no interest in sports and was "white knighting".

Could you explain where that fabulous insight came from please?

As for the subsequent post, you didn't know that at the time you told me I had no interest in sport and was "white knighting". Not to mention that not watching sport on television is not the same as not being involved in sports. Specifically, female sports.

There's a similar sentiment in an article by Joe Humphreys' in the Irish Times on Monday. He divides the debate into two camps. Those whom he addresses directly and for whom it is "deeply personal" (trans people) against the "others" for whom it's no more than "intellectual sport". It's pretty disingenuous. What he doesn't know about the motives of the other side, he just assumes the worst, ie nothing more than self regarding intellectual posturing, as if none of us have wives, girlfriends, daughters or grand daughters who are involved in sport.

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/10/14/why-political-debate-is-so-fraught-whats-personal-to-you-is-intellectual-sport-to-others/

Even if you accept the point that the other side are less personally invested, it's the old 'stay in your lane' thing that is still a common attitude here. Like you have to establish a right to comment on something before opening your mouth, often in case you get in the way of someone who's up to no good, or bullying their way to what they want. It reminds me one night we were on a bus and overheard a drunk woman abusing a young black guy. When we intervened we were told by her companion "Stay out of this. It's nothing to do with you". You're expected to keep your head down in Ireland and not get involved in things that don't directly affect you.

 It reminds me one night we were on a bus and overheard a drunk woman abusing a young black guy. When we intervened we were told by her companion "

Stay out of this. It's nothing to do with you

You can't leave us hanging there?

What was she saying to the young guy and what happened next?

Did you report the crime you witnessed to the Gardaí?

You potentially witnessed a hate crime.

Details below.

https://www.garda.ie/en/about-us/online-services/online-hate-crime-reporting/

Any criminal offence which is perceived by the victim or any other person to, in whole or in part, be motivated by hostility or prejudice, based on actual or perceived age, disability, race, colour, nationality, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or gender.

Really?

Words were exchanged including her calling him a monkey.

Up to you though, if you want to stay out of it.

So women pushing for equality in women sports, sports that they can participate in, is women white nighting for women?

While a man admittedly who has no interest in women's sports is pushing for men to compete in sports he has no interest in competing himself and doesn't watch, so why post here.

So women are wrong for fighting for their rights.

While a poster is white nighting for men to infringe on women's rights.

My post on 14 Oct was deleted by Beasty and I was warned for link dumping. I'm going to post the video again with a bit more background. Nike, probably the most instantly recognisable sporting brand (Just Do It!) likes to present itself as being supportive of women in sport, but has been remarkably silent on recent intrusions of males into women's sports. In fact they're extremely hypocritical. They tried to climb on the #bekind bandwagon, claiming that Caster Semanya was being discriminated against because he didn't meet the stereotypical appearance of a woman, when in fact he was prevented from competing in women's races due to being a man - this was revealed in court documents submitted as part of a CAS case. They have also been inextricably linked with the now defunct Oregon Project, where running legend Alberto Salazar and others abused female athletes (Kara Goucher, Mary Cain and others), shaming them for their weight and driving them to ill health by overtraining. This ad by XX-XY features a series of women athletes asking Nike if it will stand up for them.

Out of interest, who has been doing the criticism of the brand? Any major organisation, or just TRAs on the internet?

I'm not aware of anything in particular other than the banning of the XX-XY brand from TikTok. Sey has posted critically on her substack regarding TikTok allowing sponsored content featuring people with double mastectomies targeted at young people with with gender dysphoria, but I don't know if the ban pre-dates that. That and the TRA's of course, who, like the poor, are always with us it seems.

You're the second TRA to use the word "retarded" in this thread. I would have thought that was quite an offensive word to use in and of itself (Offence to use at all in any use case, no matter who you are describing). At a level similar to the "N" word. At the very least it's very un-PC indeed.

I think the above post says a lot more about you than it does about Jennifer Sey.

If by that offensive slur you mean that she lost her job for pointing out the hypocrisy inherent in rich people advocating public school closures while the rich kids got to carry on in their private schools, then yes. Given the fallout from school closure here, her opinion had some merit, and she was brave enough to express it in 2020.

Funnily enough I was just over on another thread, lamenting the sadly all too common debating technique of throwing shade as a poor substitute for engaging with the actual subject matter.

What's wrong with making a profit, or are you one of the TRA's that think anyone who dares express a contrary opinion, no matter how firmly fact-based, should be permanently deprived of the ability to earn an income - possibly along with being burned alive, punched on the face, raped, etc, etc?

What "fear" do you think she's mongering? She is standing up for women in sport, and has referenced over 600 cases of men taking prizes that should have gone to women, so it's not a case of fear when that which she is trying to prevent has demonstrably happened.

#bekind my arse.