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

Deeply worrying that the damage to young people is being swept aside. As objective and logical thinkers, most of us have always found this questionable and have continued to raise this as a concern despite the hateful (stupid & ignorant) rhetoric thrown at us. About time the professionals involved take stock and become more transparent regarding the ongoing damage to young people.

It really is nightmarish scary stuff:

“ ..patients who came to me had more and more poorly controlled mental health comorbidities”

“no specific requirements for the psychological evaluation of young adolescents before starting them on the medical gender transition pathway”

The mental and emotional well being of children and young people is paramount. Above all else it needs to addressed and the fact that the Trans community have swept this aside as a non issue only to focus their attention on shouting indiscriminately about transphobic bigots, must surely now come to an end.

Navigating the way to trans surgery should be managed with all the mental health safety checks in place.. surely everyone agrees how very important it is to find the correct and emotionally-safe pathway for each individual. The unravelling of this debacle will exposed many for being brutal uncaring ideologically driven fanatics. Mental care for the individual on all levels comes first no matter who you are.. except of course young people and children, they are even more important and require tons of support and care.

It reminds me a little bit of the butchering of women in the medical dark days. Hysterical? Signed paper by a couple of males? Result: locked up or surgery or both.

I hope he's stripped of his medal soon.

Anyone increasingly alienated by the rudeness of gender-critical people? And how things are going increasingly right-wing?
I often get teased because I believe there should be a leftist gender critical movement that isn't that rude, that actually adheres to the call yourself whatever you want, wear whatever you please' dichotomy, but believes in basic biology.

Seeing how many gender-criticals are going further into the right-wing (e.g. Labour), to me, it feels like people don't want more people in the gender-critical movement.

Like someone like Graham Linehan was a liberal, but as he got further into the gender-critical movement, he got further right wing, and now he's an Aontu supporter. He's gone from being one of the big voices of the pro-choice movement to Aontu. That makes me wonder why leftist GCs (if they even exist) haven't banded together to focus on something that doesn't drive people further down the rabbit hole. Something that is genuinely focused on protecting vulnerable single sex women, rather than using it as an excuse for bullying.

Bit of context wouldn’t have gone amiss -

Midfielder Leila Wandeler said: “The result didn’t matter. For us, it was about testing our game principles.”

The team did not appear to take the contest very seriously, using 28 players in the 90 minute match.

https://www.news.com.au/sport/football/womens-national-team-humiliated-71-by-u15-boys-team/news-story/93e87b0dcac51e1d8146eddbb716f3f1?amp

It’s the likes of Piers Morgan and Donald Trump need to try harder instead of wetting their knickers and trying to make something out of nothing, like the above effort from Morgan, and this effort from Trump when Juventus visited the White House -

At one point Trump, who in February signed an executive order banning transgender participants from women’s sports, turned around to ask the Juventus players and staff about their views on the subject.

“Could a woman make your team, fellas,” Trump asked the players, who smiled nervously but did not offer a response.

When Trump asked the question again, Juventus’s general manager, Damien Comolli, attempted to deflect the query. “We have a very good women’s team,” he said of Juventus Women, who are the reigning Serie A champions.

“But they should be playing with women,” said Trump as Comolli chose not to answer. “He’s being very diplomatic,” said Trump.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/jun/18/donald-trump-juventus-transgender-players-club-world-cup

Ne’er a peep out of either of them when this happens, cos it doesn’t fit their narrative -

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2019/jun/13/usa-celebrated-all-13-goals-thailand-france-2019-world-cup

Change needs to be enacted from policy, ethics committees, government guidelines and professional healthcare regulations.

Honestly, I can’t blame anyone who grew up questioning their gender under the affirmation model. They were affirmed over and over, agreed with, encouraged to transition etc. from authority figures in their lives, activist groups etc., with no exploration of possible alternatives to their questioning. Sure we’d all feel we’d every right to compete in sports and that everyone else was a transphobe and bully if they disagreed. The affirmation model is a tragic disservice to our youth.

Imagine every single important care-giver in your small world as a child, or limited world as an adolescent, absolutely affirming you can be the gender you identify with and have and deserve the exact same rights as that gender. That’s the model..

Change starts with gently introducing early acceptance of their limitations in certain areas should they wish to pursue a transition. We all have to accept those limitations in life, too short, IQ not high enough to achieve dream of rocket scientist, unable to give birth on account of biology, going bald or growing hair in unusual places - for any gender? It’s hard to accept the things we can’t achieve or change, goals or physical attributes, but that’s life..

Does it feel othering to the person involved? Course it does but there are many many factors in life that set us apart and make us feel less than, so we rely on resilience and resourcefulness to find our place.

Exactly, that’s why, like I said - you won’t hear a peep out of Morgan and Trump, because it doesn’t fit their narrative.

Trying to make something out of a training session though, that fits their narrative, it might mean something if it were an actual competition, but it’s not, and made no difference to competition, and is actually common for professional women’s teams to practice against the men’s youth teams. A youth team beating the national women’s team in a friendly training sessIon means nothing, yet here we are with some people trying to make out that it supports their argument against women competing with men in sports competitions.