HS boys have testosterone and girls do not, giving the boys a major advantage in running. Hence a boy running as a girl in an all girls race has a huge advantage over every girl in the race.
This ain't brain surgery
Quote specific sentences of mine verbatim and state what you disagree with. I don’t don’t care to respond to silly rhetorical questions asking if I’ve heard of testosterone.
Quote specific sentences of mine verbatim and state what you disagree with. I don’t don’t care to respond to silly rhetorical questions asking if I’ve heard of testosterone.
Do you know who gets testosterone?
Do you know what it does?
Sounds like you don’t disagree with anything I actually said.
Why would a guy even want to compete in anything physical vs a girl? They really can't figure this out they don't get how damn uncool that is, really? Something just ain't right there.
They are not a man like you, a real man! I sincerely mean this even though it also serves perfectly well as a sarcastic response.
No, I really don’t see that. What “change” are you going on and on about? Are you assuming that every woman has to accept “your penis” in their restroom? Like accept it inside of her body? Or is there some kind of formal acceptance ceremony to welcome every penis to the restroom? How do they have to “change their lives” as opposed to doing whatever they would do anyway?
Acceptance means they have to put up with your daily whims, wants, and whines. It means women have to lose privacy, lose competitive balance, and lose equal opportunity (in sport). The world doesn't have to adjust to you; you need to adjust to the world.
This entire debate comes down to extreme narcissism and egocentricity.
It is no different than an F -> M trans person being in the men's room. I don't care and probably wouldn't notice since I just go in to do my business and get out. I don't have to change a single thing about my day or life.
I also don't care if they line up next to me in a race. If they beat me so what? They are men as much as any biological male is. If someone comes into the office and says they are no longer a she, they are a he I just have to use new pronouns. That is the extent of having to "adjust" and it just isn't a big difference. I don't see how any of this is that big of an impact on our daily lives.
How so? This particular trans person or trans people in general?
This particular person didn't ask for any special treatment. She just followed the rules like everyone else. If you don't like the rules, then try to change them.
A boy competing as a girl in an all girls race is not getting special treatment?
If that boy identifies as female they are a girl running in a girl's race. No need for trans or cis qualifiers, both are just "girls".
In a speech, Rishi Sunak said the stance was “common sense,” drawing applause from the Conservative Party Conference and accusations of transphobia from activists.
Yes. The girl who got fifth in the race is a woman. This isn't rocket science, but Republicans seem dumbfounded by the "what is a woman?" question.
Yes, most people on this site don’t seem to be from the running world. WA (C3.5 3.2.1) is very clear that to be considered a female, a transgender female just needs to provide a signed declaration that their gender identity is female.
It is no different than an F -> M trans person being in the men's room. I don't care and probably wouldn't notice since I just go in to do my business and get out. I don't have to change a single thing about my day or life.
I also don't care if they line up next to me in a race. If they beat me so what? They are men as much as any biological male is. If someone comes into the office and says they are no longer a she, they are a he I just have to use new pronouns. That is the extent of having to "adjust" and it just isn't a big difference. I don't see how any of this is that big of an impact on our daily lives.
I think even though these things may not have any daily impact on anyone's lives, people to varying degrees take issue when "truth" as they perceive it isn't regarded or spoken. Then, when they notice that an "untruth" is being proliferated more, they feel unease, and even threatened to an extent.
For example, let's say you're at a restaurant and you overhear a person informing a soon-to-be driver that at traffic lights "the blue light means stop and you go at the white lights" and then "when you approach an upside triangular yield sign, that means you should close your eyes and step on the gas." Most would continue to listen and not comment about what they've just overheard. It's not their business and won't affect them in the slightest. But, some people believing themselves to be genuinely concerned for the new driver and others on the road would check and ask, "haha you're joking, right?" and then if the answer is no, they would say back, "well, that isn't correct".
For the most people who don't say anything, if they happened to witness or hear about increasing numbers of instances of fatal accidents at yield signs because drivers are closing their eyes and hitting the gas, then a number will start squawking more and believing that there's a problem that needs addressing even though the chances of this affecting them is quite low. "How can our society survive when we can't agree on these basic traffic rules!?", they will say.
In short, people will always have a tendency to be drawn to what they perceive the truth to be and to condemn others who are nonconforming to this "social norm". There are Make America Great Again people who eschew societal norms by openly promoting what many believe to be extreme racist and nazi-ist views. In the exact same way, there are others who choose to defy social conventions through sexual confusion and transitioning. Then, there are all the people who feel threatened by either of these extremes even though the likelihood of either of them directly affecting anyone in the near term is near zero.
I don’t think women should be allowed to run cross country period. Their bodies aren’t strong enough for those kinds of efforts and they’re too weak mentally and physically.
People than never competed making policy is the problem.
I think I speak for a lot larger group of Dems when I say I do not care at all. The fact that somebody is posting about the 5th ranked cross country runner in Maine as if this is a critical political issue makes me thankful we are making the planet uninhabitable.
We as a species should drive ourselves to extinction as soon as possible.
Dear dumb dem,
If you don't care. Then why would you care if we make the following national law? "All athletes must compete in the birth of you biological sex. Additionally, it's illegal for any government entity to ever ask you about your gender."
Repeat after me. "A transgender woman isn't female." At best they are a transgender woman. Many would say they a male acting like a woman.
To the moronic Dem congresmman who said, "Letkidsplay", we are letting them play. NO one would prevent this person from playing in the sex of their birth.
It's like sex, no one is preventing a middle aged man like myself from having sex but they would prevent me from having sex with a child. How is that hard to understand?
The larger issue for me is we have to live in a society where objective facts matter. A transwoman isn't female and will never be female.
