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To think it’s completely and utterly unacceptable for men to compete in women’s sports?

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SwainedFreed · 24/07/2024 20:42

How the hell is this being allowed! I’ve seen the volume of medals they are earning - medals which should be earned by women. Men and women are not physically comparable and this is just a line which once again shouldn’t be crossed.

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BenjiCat · 24/07/2024 20:57

It makes my blood boil with the unfairness of it!

Projectme · 24/07/2024 20:56

It's beyond horrendous and pisses me off so much. 😤 but we aren't allowed to complain are we because we have to #bekind. Bollocks to that shit.

Flibflobflibflob · 24/07/2024 20:52

The training hours athletes (pro and not pro) put it to get good at what they do is immense. The fact that anyone can be knocked out of competition because some mediocre bloke with a host of biological advantages comes along and decides he’s a woman now is appalling.

The whole thing has made me realise how much people really don’t give a shit about women.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 24/07/2024 20:49

You'd think it would be obvious. However, I think it's the Emperor's New Clothes. If you say something that's obviously at odds with the facts, people assume it must be true that there's been a new scientific discovery, or how could you hope to get away with it? In this case, millions of years of human evolution is just being batted aside as if somehow something massive's changed in the last few years. Well, spoiler alert, it hasn't. Women have separate sports for the same reason children and older athletes do - it means like is competing with like. Male bodies that went through male puberty are still male bodies that went through male puberty even if the male is taking oestrogen and wearing stereotypically female clothing.

(And it's right and proper that they went through male puberty. Everybody has to go through puberty, even if it's tough. It's an essential part of human development and the children currently being given blockers are getting drugs that have a lot of very nasty side effects. Huge medical scandal in the making.)

XDownwiththissortofthingX · 24/07/2024 20:48

BunfightBetty · 24/07/2024 20:44

Well yes, anyone with a functioning brain knows this 🤷‍♀️ But we have wallies for politicians, so….

Politicians don't govern sports, and even if UK politicians kicked up a stink, that's inconsequential for sports where the governing bodies are based outside the UK anyway.

It's a problem for the governing bodies of individual sports to tackle.

BunfightBetty · 24/07/2024 20:44

Well yes, anyone with a functioning brain knows this 🤷‍♀️ But we have wallies for politicians, so….

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