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

Jesus, thank God. I didn't know where you going with the start of that sentence.

Girls can play down a year to aid their development if the club don't have a girls team.

We don't do it though because they would dominate.

The majority of our women's national team came through the system of playing with boys, as did exclusively all the England's National Team when they first won the EURO's as far as I know. In England Males and Females can play up until Under 18.

The narrative that girls are wilting flowers who couldn't possibly compete with boys and would only get hurt, is fair frustrating for me to read, I can only imagine what is like for the girls competing, drives them on more probably. Hopefully.

Most clubs would have both genders in the same team up until puberty.

No they wouldn't, not if they have girls teams competing in the girls leagues.

About of a quarter of clubs don't have female teams.

That last paragraph is a strawman and unneeded.

It perfectly sums up the pearl clutchers IMO.

Is it "alot" or "most"?

About three quarters of clubs have female teams.

25% isn't which is the point.

The overwhelming narrative is all Girls are too weak to play with boys.

But it completely falls down when it's pointed out to them they already do.

It can't be an exclusive all encompassing fact if out right prohibition exits, because it hasn't been tested.

The problem is people accept things as facts until it turns out they aren't.

Thats not even getting into the fact that its a horse doing the majority of the work.

This is one of most frustrating things about this debate, people with absolutely zero knowledge of sport throwing their tuppence in.

But to educate.

Horse Racing, particularly jump racing is one of the most physically demanding and dangerous sports on the planet.

The Grand National is seen as the most physical and dangerous races of the calendar.

Blackmore won almost 600 pro races. Including the Gold Cup and a myriad of other personal accolades in the sport.

To dilute that down to it was fluke like a lottery win or sure the woman only won because the horse did most of the work is not even thinly veiled misogyny.

The mask never takes too long to slip. In your case it flew out the window.

Deluded by ideology, Rachel was indeed a superb jockey, the owners that supported her along the way had a huge impact on her career and as most of the top jockeys will tell you, they depend on the horse at the end of the day, I dont think many would put Rachel in the class of AP, Ruby, Paul Carberry or currently Sean Bowen, and she was one in a million, Holly Doyle who also is a superb jockey would also not be near the top guys in the sport but could win many group races if she was riding for Ballydoyle.

Boys and girls is fine. It's when they hit puberty that the differences appear.

The FAI allow mixed Gender until Under 16s

The FA Under 18s.

Denmark have no age limit.

The under 15 Dallas FC boys soccer team (not exactly a high quality outfit) easily beat the US women's national team (the best in the world at that point). But reality has no place in the world of ideology.

The US womens national soccer team were beaten by a team of u15 boys. The best teenage male runners can easily beat womens world records that have stood for decades. In 2025 a 17 year old boy set a record in the 800m that is a full 9 seconds faster than the womens record which was set in 1983 (a dubious record in itself)

The fact that this happens doesnt negate womens sports or show that women are "wilting flowers". Literally no one is saying this. Its just biology. Do you honestly think its because women just dont try hard enough? That's what seems misogynistic to me