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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions
BettyBooper · 12/08/2024 19:10

Oh this is so depressing.

Petrillo said: "This is not a lifestyle choice for me, this is who I am'.

Yes, like his increased muscle mass, height and overall bloody advantage in women's sport...

334bu · 12/08/2024 17:27

"Ultimately, in the seven years in which transgender athletes have been able to compete in the female category, the number of instances in which they have stood out for their sporting results have been very few and far between."

Might have more to do with the fact that Petrillo is almost 20 -30 years older than the other competitors and unlike every other 50 year old woman doesn't have the inconvenience of menopause.

PaterPower · 12/08/2024 17:16

At least the BBC acknowledged the problems with an ‘inclusive’ approach in this article (which makes a somewhat welcome change):

“Sports scientist Professor Ross Tucker said: "Male advantage is created through development and so it is essentially laid down over years and years of exposure to testosterone. The solution that sport has tried to come up with is to say well if the source of that advantage is testosterone then let's lower it and then the athlete is free to compete.

"But that doesn’t work because there is an asymmetry there because some of the changes that testosterone causes, like the increased muscle mass, increased strength, the shape and size of the skeleton, those changes don’t go away. There are some, like haemoglobin levels, certain elements of the cardiovascular system that may go away.”

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