Drainthefecesswamp wrote:
High jump and pole vault are contested on a rubber runup onto Mars.
Only the best elites can jump that high.
"track and field and other" isnt a great name, so it's just "track and field."
It's "athletics" everywhere but US and Canada.
Bad Wigins wrote:
Drainthefecesswamp wrote:
High jump and pole vault are contested on a rubber runup onto Mars.
Only the best elites can jump that high.
"track and field and other" isnt a great name, so it's just "track and field."
It's "athletics" everywhere but US and Canada.
+1
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_records_in_athleticsAs someone who has lifted for about 25 years now I must say it's not abnormal to run across very intelligent and conscientious lifters. Their policy is spot on. It's not anti-trans AT ALL. It's a matter of objectively looking at the situation and stating facts without emotion playing a part. Absolutely love it because it's not caving into the PC culture so present nowadays nor does it come across as being insensitive.
Finally a sport where common sense prevails.
I agree this policy makes total sense. Weightlifting from NewZealand had the guy Laurel Hubbard competing in the women's division (2017). Many of the women were shocked the authorities would allow it (they didn't know ahead of time).
Yesterday, Ms. Sipaia said it was an unfair for a man to compete in the women’s division.
“I only found out when we arrived in Australia and Tuaopepe told me about it,” she told the Samoa Observer. “At first, I thought my coach was joking until the day of the competition.”
I would like to see a sport or two where a huge number of men register as women and compete, to the point where there is no actual biological woman on the first two pages of results.
Then the "winner" gives the prize to the actual woman.
There should be mass protest against this idiocy. It's not fair to woman that work their tails off to compete in whatever sport.
Let's just say that the pro-trans crowd isn't engaging this thread as much as the other one.
I wonder why?
ppppopopopoooopp wrote:
Blah, blah. Why don't they cite the Peer-Reviewed Science Literature for their Opinions, rather than hate on the trans community?
In your emotionally-fueled statement, you choose to call a well thought-out & respectful policy hateful. Perhaps it's a rightfully cautious decision, based on emerging research, prompted by a need to protect female athletes.
Or maybe wrote:It’s not hating on the trans community. It’s loving on the female community.
Yup. Unfortunately, it's hard for people to take uneven-keeled look at such issues when they're involved in it.
Research has shown six stages of sexual identity development. It seems that the ones speaking out on this issue are stuck in the fifth stage, Identity pride, where they accept themselves and still feel rejection by society. In this stage they viciously immerse themselves in activism, which can be good but often ends up expressing itself in hate and vitriol.
The sixth stage is Identity Synthesis, where anger softens toward cissexuals, they develop trust, and they move forward with their lives to find solutions like everyone else, but now with their new identity.
Keith Ellison is being drafted into the investigation!
WASHINGTON — Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar recommended Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison investigate USA Powerlifting for barring biological males from women’s events, according to a Jan. 31 letter she sent USA Powerlifting.
Omar called it a “myth” that men who identify as transgender women have a “direct competitive advantage” and copied Ellison on the letter, “with a recommendation that he investigate this discriminatory behavior.”
“Under the Minnesota Human Rights Act, discrimination against anyone based on their gender identity is illegal. This includes in public accommodations, and in Minnesota, organizations such as USA Powerlifting. In fact, just last month a Minnesota jury awarded Ms. Christina Ginther $20,000 after the Independent Women’s Football League refused to allow her to participate because she is transgender,” Omar warned.
“I urge you to reconsider this discriminatory, unscientific policy and follow the example of the International Olympic Committee. The myth that trans women have a ‘direct competitive advantage’ is not supported by medical science, and it continues to stoke fear and violence against one of the most at-risk communities in the world,” wrote the congresswoman.
I'm glad that Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is taking a strong stand against this malicious anti-trans hatred from USA Powerlifting. We can use more fighters like her in the trenches.
Victimhood. The great rallying cry of left wing politics. Even if the victims are the great majority of women, who can never compete as equals in trans sport.
I'm With Her wrote:
I'm glad that Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is taking a strong stand against this malicious anti-trans hatred from USA Powerlifting. We can use more fighters like her in the trenches.
Transphobia will likely be an issue of National Security (unlike the imaginary "Wall") in 2020.
https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1092938170956693504Banned from Social Media wrote:
I'm With Her wrote:
I'm glad that Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is taking a strong stand against this malicious anti-trans hatred from USA Powerlifting. We can use more fighters like her in the trenches.
Transphobia will likely be an issue of National Security (unlike the imaginary "Wall") in 2020.
https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1092938170956693504
So why are they not Russia's Achilles heel?
Mmm. Ancient Rome had pretty strong security for the better part of half a millennium. And zero respect for the rights of anyone who wasn't a Roman citizen. Human rights don't always equate with security concerns. There is such a thing as overstating your case, Ms Harris. But that's what lawyers typically do.
I have to applaud these weight lifters. They are calling the transgender bull crap out like people should.
"I have read much of the relevant literature. I also have a background in elite sport, science and medicine. I have no hesitation in saying that this complex and often emotional issue really doesn’t need any more people — however well-intentioned — with no apparent knowledge of the field, and no relevant, contextual experience or expertise, wading in with what could be construed by some as political spin, unhelpful bias or even cynical virtue signalling."
--- Dr Antonia Lee (Medium)
Your opinion isn't wanted wrote:
"I have read much of the relevant literature. I also have a background in elite sport, science and medicine. I have no hesitation in saying that this complex and often emotional issue really doesn’t need any more people — however well-intentioned — with no apparent knowledge of the field, and no relevant, contextual experience or expertise, wading in with what could be construed by some as political spin, unhelpful bias or even cynical virtue signalling."
--- Dr Antonia Lee (Medium)
Well, let's apply that argument to everything, shall we. Only self-appointed experts like the worthy Dr Lee are entitled to express a view.
That’s it!
I'm With Her wrote:
I'm glad that Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is taking a strong stand against this malicious anti-trans hatred from USA Powerlifting. We can use more fighters like her in the trenches.
yeah, at I guess Trans dudes are seen as higher on the Victimhood Foodchain, therefore more deserving of protection than biological women.
I guess that is one way for a white male to jump up to the front of the pack in the Victimhood Olympics. Claim you are a women. That puts you in front of women, in front of gays, lesbians, Muslims... I don't think it would put you ahead of Black, but then that debate has yet to happen.