To have allowed my dc watch the Olympic opening ceremony?

I'm surprised your kids didn't take themselves off to bed after the first three minutes. This one was boring as fuck!

Oh ffs! How is there so much IGNORANCE on Intersex, even today.

you don’t by definition fit into either category of male or female

WRONG. Wrong, Wrong, WRONG. Intersex just have genitals that don't match their chromosomes. BUT, they DO fit into either male or female. A blood test will tell which. Intersex people are not both or neither. They are still EITHER male, OR female.

This is 2024. How are people still this devastatingly ignorant and ill-informed on Intersex/DSDs?

Just to pull you up right here @HolyGround13 , you don't seem to have any medical or even working knowledge of intersex people at all. Not even the basics. NO HUMAN BEING is ever born with "both" male and female chromosomes. They are born with EITHER male OR female chromosomes. Not both. The fact that a blood test will determine what sex intersex people are, proves this.

Just a note that my comment abut the rapist volleyball player was addressed to everyone on this thread that keeps going on about it, not just to HolyGround13. And my comment "Let me spell it out for you since many seem very mentally slow." is address to all who keep going on about it, it is not personally addressed to HolyGround13.

I thought the 200 odd figures of a headless Marie anyoinette was unnecessary and gross

Saying things like “men” “women” and “biological women” is actually more confusing because intersex people exist.

No it isn't, because all people with DSDs are either male or female. HTH.

Are they “pretending to be women”?

Yes, they are. That is what drag is all about!

No, they’re performing drag, which has various roots and origins as theatre all over the world. Some people have said “dressed resembling a girl” started in the theatre when women weren’t allowed on stage, and men played female parts as well.

You've, without knowing it, answered the problem. That women weren't allowed on stage, that IS WHY men dressed as women. And now, even in an age where women ARE allowed to perform, men are still aping us, as if we are not there and are not allowed to perform. Drag has roots pre-suffrage, when women had zero rights. So WHY does it still....exist today? It's like they are FLAUNTING that era in our faces, rubbing our faces in it, when surely men dressed as women should have died the moment we were allowed out of the house and on a stage.

That is what makes drag queen existing today, all the more like pouring salt, bleach, acid into the wounds of women. Once we got the right to leave the house and to perform on stage, drag should have disappeared and ceased to exist.

As to the rapist volleyball player that people on here desperately resort to as whataboutery, the topic of the thread is the OPENING....CEREMONY. Can you read and comprehend English? If you want to discuss that rapist (and the outcry against him is very justified) then create a thread on that. T.H.I.S. .....T.H.R.E.A.D is about the opening ceremony. Let me spell it out for you since many seem very mentally slow.
O.P.E.N.I.NG.....C.E.R.E.M.O.N.Y. Opening Ceremony. The rapist didn't (to my knowledge, I didn't see watch it) peform at the opening ceremony. Do you need the dictionary definitions of those words 'opening' and 'ceremony'? Please just go away with your strawmen and whataboutery to derail the thread. Start a new thread if you want to discuss the horrible rapist.

Oh please, with this 'wHaT aBoUt InTeRsEx' bs. Intersex are still either male OR female. That they are intersex, is irrelevant. A blood test will show they are either male....OR female. It's as simple as that. They are not two sexes in one. Intersex people have REPEATEDLY asked that they be left out of this debate and that they stop being weaponised.
Their statements regarding the trans/drag issue:

Do you not understand the distinction between wanting to do something and actually doing it?

Actually, never mind. Neither Lia Thomas or any other trans women are relevant to this Olympics where none of them are competing. I hope you get help with your obsession - it’s weird to bring up trans people at every opportunity.

Have the day you deserve.

Which of my facts was wrong?

Yes, it appears that the IOC's new approach is to still allow males to compete as women but to ask the worldwide media not to say that they are male.

So what they have learned from Tokyo is that male athletes competing in women's categories goes down like a cup of cold sick with most of the world, who don't see this as progressive at all (so we won't be seeing any more "stunning and brave" Laurel Hubbard style reporting") but that's not a good enough reason for them to ban it.

Thankfully Lia is not competing, but there are two men competing in the women's boxing (BOXING) and a guy on one of the women's football teams. There may be more, I don't know.

I was responding to the OP who brought up Lia Thomas and talked about her being transgender. It’s right there in the quoted post.

You appear to be the one bringing transgender people into the conversation,
Deliberately
Everyone else was discussing the Christian aspect and the high level of drag queens in this section of the show.

Lia Thomas has never even competed at an international level or Olympic trials. How does she seem relevant to a dance performance at opening ceremonies? Or address any of the points I’ve made?

Or do you just like to look at photos of trans people so much you can’t help yourself but bring up them up constantly?

I’d be tempted to throw something personally, but no doubt I’d get a longer sentence than he did for that.

I mean I was hoping their team would lose sponsorships and some pressure would be applied so he didn’t get picked, but not much anyone can do at this stage, as you say.

There hasn't been a lack of reaction to the rapist that I've seen. Paula Radcliffe supported him on Twitter (fuck knows why) and got a lot of flak. If people were actually booing him in person, that's quite intense, what else can they do, riot? But yes, obviously he shouldn't have been allowed to participate.