US swimming authorities to let athletes choose to compete as male or female

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TerfedOff · 06/10/2018 09:20

www.rt.com/sport/440416-us-swimming-transgender-category/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Transgender athletes will be able to compete in their chosen category even if someone files a protest refuting their status.

Oh for goodness sake we mustn't let this happen in our country this is just such a nonsense and so unfair to women.

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Needmoresleep · 06/10/2018 09:46

The added problem is that swim and coach time is precious, and elite swimmers need to train a lot. Even in larger clubs it is only the top couple of squads who would get sufficient time to be competitive at regional or national level. And Clubs are required (a trickle down via Swim 21 certification from the Equalities Act) to have clear criteria, usually based on times, for qualification to those top squads. So say you had a top squad of 20 half of whom are girls. Two trans-girls and girls have lost 20% of their opportunity, whilst transboys have lost all of theirs. And could be more pronounced than that as from about he age of 13 the kids wanting to take the sport seriously will gravitate towards the best clubs and coaches. So if you had four or five trans boy swimmers in West London, it is very possible they would all be in the same club/squad. And they don't need to be that good to be better than the girls.

(Plus lots of school pools are used, some with limited or no private cubicles.)

VickyEadie · 06/10/2018 09:45

And the authorities, governments et al are perfectly happy to see the destruction of women's sport.

It's almost like deep misogyny is driving this.

BlackeyedSusan · 06/10/2018 09:42

Bye bye women's sport.

Knicknackpaddyflak · 06/10/2018 09:26

The choices of men exalted over the realities of women.

The male supremacy of it isn't even covert any more.

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