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A picture speaks a thousand words. Transwomen in women’s sport

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LemonGingerCakes · 23/10/2019 22:23

I've never started a thread like this before, but this is bothering me.

No comments. Just letting the pictures speak.

Spot the transwoman.

How is this fair?

A picture speaks a thousand words. Transwomen in women’s sport
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YouJustDoYou · 24/10/2019 18:26

It's cheating. They are dirty, dirty, cheaters, and don't care. I hate them.

mement0mori · 24/10/2019 18:21

Sorry I see this has already been mentioned in PPs x

mement0mori · 24/10/2019 18:02

Last go!

This one is a trans man (taking testosterone) in women's sports. They were not allowed to fight with the men due to the rules.

www.theguardian.com/society/2018/feb/25/transgender-wrestler-mack-beggs-wins-texas-girls-title

FamilyOfAliens · 24/10/2019 17:28

"I do feel guilty, but what can you do?" she says. "I don't go out to hurt anybody. I just want to play rugby."

I’ll tell you what you can do if all you want is to play rugby, Kelly. Play on the men’s team. Like you used to.

MarshaBradyo · 24/10/2019 17:20

It doesn’t matter what the athletes look like more what sex they are. I feel like this has crept up from out of nowhere. There are quite a few pics here, but it’s just being let to happen when sport is so very stringent on other unfair advantage (drugs for example)

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LemonGingerCakes · 24/10/2019 17:07

I think this thread is interesting. Trying to base acceptance or rejection of people in a category that isnt based on looks, based on how they look, is obviously wrong and this thread kind of shows why that is...

(Unless I’ve misunderstood), it’s not rejecting them on how they look (at least not in the way you are implying). It’s about their larger size/ height/ strength that gives them an unfair and unsafe advantage. The fact that they still look so male demonstrates how far from female some of them are.

No one is bothered by anyone (no matter how masculine) living as a female (or vice versa). Having to say they are something they’re not is a problem to many.

The real issue, however, is them appropriating women's sports (and beating women) when women just can’t compete with them (biologically).

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TemporaryPermanent · 24/10/2019 16:38

I think this thread is interesting. Trying to base acceptance or rejection of people in a category that isnt based on looks, based on how they look, is obviously wrong and this thread kind of shows why that is...

JuneSpoon · 24/10/2019 16:03

Are these transwomen competing in women's professional sports or "just" in the amateur arena?

FannyCann · 24/10/2019 13:10

What did Fanny say?

I posted an amusing meme from 🥝 farms. I expect they've posted lots more now with competitive photo shopping. But not in the spirit here. Wink

Awaywiththepiskies · 24/10/2019 12:29

talking about sparkly dresses and shopping for shoes. That isn’t what makes you a woman

It's what men think "being" a woman is. They're very ignorant about:
menstruation
pregnancy
being paid less
being followed as a "normal" thing (see the other thread in here)
cleaning lavatories (see the other thread in here)

pejorativelyspeaking · 24/10/2019 11:58

@Doyoumind that photo made me splutter my coffee-I'm so fucking angry about this-so much rage. Bollocks

MockersthefeMANist · 24/10/2019 11:52

(Male) professional footballers were seen as tradesmen like any other. The moves to sideline the women's game were part of a general trend after the great war to move the women out and give the men 'their' jobs back.

ErrolTheDragon · 24/10/2019 11:38

As a general point, it really is important to check your facts before posting.

UnbowedUnbentUnbroken · 24/10/2019 11:10

snowbear I think you should remove your comment. Those people are born females and have been constantly harassed for not being feminine looking enough.

NigellaAwesome · 24/10/2019 10:57

I think Fanny may have referred to someone as he.

WomanBornNotWorn · 24/10/2019 10:35

It's unfair, unsporting and unsafe.

We need to keep repeating this, until sporting authorities hear and see sense.

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LemonGingerCakes · 24/10/2019 10:15

The FA decided football wasn't suitable for women.
FA banned the women's game.

😒🙄🙄 There's a surprise.

No worries about the deleted post, I was just curious

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WrathofSIxFootSIxElfKlop · 24/10/2019 10:07

Oh I didn't see what Fanny wrote.

WrathofSIxFootSIxElfKlop · 24/10/2019 09:59

Just read some of it.
The popularity of the women's team threatened the mens game.
Complaints were made.

The FA decided football wasn't suitable for women.
FA banned the women's game.

Sound familiar?

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LemonGingerCakes · 24/10/2019 09:57

What did Fanny say?

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WrathofSIxFootSIxElfKlop · 24/10/2019 09:46

Errol, I agree. I'll have a read of that wikipage.

It is the outright banning of women's football matches from 1921.
I wonder how many clubs were disbanded at the time?
And why?

WomaninBoots · 24/10/2019 09:38

Do you think if women were still banned from playing sports we'd have quite the same enthusiasm from transwomen to be recognised as women for sporting purposes?

ErrolTheDragon · 24/10/2019 09:06

It's OT, but it's more shocking that women were banned from FA grounds from 1921, having being popular before then.
I quite often sit in a traffic queue next to a blue plaque celebrating the Dick Kerr Ladies. There are some points to ponder in this story for anyone who is interested.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick,KerrrLadiesF.C.

MockersthefeMANist · 24/10/2019 08:41

Womens football was banned by the FA. That meant they could not play on any FA ground until the ban was lifted in 1971. They played on rugby league grounds, speedway stadiums, dog tracks, and mostly local parks.

Association Football was defined as a male game until 1983, and ten years later the WFA was disbanded and incorporated into the FA.

WrathofSIxFootSIxElfKlop · 24/10/2019 08:37

Some of the woke women will want to train at 4.30 in the morning, they'll think they need to train harder.

They will never, ever be good enough.

Taking self harm to a sinister level.

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