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

The number of Cheetahs competing at elite and pro sporting level here and at the Olympics is the same as the number of trans women.

So we could in fact have a 320 page thread demonising Cheetahs.

It is just as arbitrary.

 blatantly obvious problems in front of them

I have asked you several times to articulate the scope of the problems.

You point blank told me you had absolute no interest.

A bit rich of you to be acusing people of covering their eyes to be fair.

How many people this impacts currently in Ireland is irrelevant

Nonsense, the question is absolutely relevant.

The fact is you don't want to it answer or discuss it because you know it's absolutely embarrassing the amount of time being given over to what is virtually an non issue.

An issue in the majority being driven by hateful cranks to channel their bigotry.

"Ability not gender" - yet we're not talking about gender, we're talking about biological sex.

I haven't a notion what you are talking about.

But if you have a problem with that phrase, you need to take it up with the FAI.

Its not just about "trans" though, despite how much you are trying to make it the case so that you can rant about trump and right wing bigots. There are a number of males with DSDs who have competed against, and in some cases dominated, womens sports. The most prominent example being the 2016 womens 800m where all 3 runners on the podium were actually male. A person, such as caster semenya or imane khelif, who has been through male puberty should not be competing against women. End of. Trans women are also male and should not be competing against women if they have been though male puberty. The vast majority of actual female athletes agree with this. Maybe you should listen to them instead of just insinuating that it's actually a level playing field after all and they just aren't trying hard enough because "ability not gender".

It makes no sense to acknowledge that there are valid reasons for sports to be separated by sex, but also advocate for men to compete against women if they say the magic words that they are trans so as not to hurt their feelings.

The only thing here that is absolutely embarrassing is you clutching onto a facetious numbers justification like a drowning man with a life ring.

You have completely abandoned any pretense at justifying that biological males should be allowed compete in the female category on merit and are desperately jumping from one spurious side argument to another.

It is entirely irrelevant what number you claim in the self-selected group you decide. Something is either right or wrong irrespective of how often it occurs and no matter how many ridiculous side arguments you try to make the core of the issue remains that biological males have no business participating in female only categories of anything. It is irrelevant what their feels are on the matter of gender or how much chemical or physical body modification they engage in, they were always male, will always be male, will never be female and have no right to be allowed access to female only spaces or categories just like every other biological male human on the planet.

You've mentioned Laurel Hubbard a few times. Is that World Championship silver medalist Laurel Hubbard? Is that NZ champion Laurel Hubbard? Is that Pacific Champion Laurel Hubbard?

I bet all the women who finished behind her or missed out on their Olympic dreams think it's great a 40 something trans woman got to compete and beat them. Yay women's sports.