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Emily bridges

59 replies

nearlyspringyay · 07/06/2022 22:08

What is this interview, what are any of them
trying to achieve? I cannot get on board with this.

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GoodThinkingMax · 09/06/2022 12:14

have been tested and discovered to have higher levels of testosterone despite being genetically female.

That is utter utter rubbish. The lowest allowable testosterone level for men who identify as women and want to compete against women is far higher than the natural levels for women. If women had the testosterone levels of transwomen, they’d be done for doping. Sharron Davies has talked about this.

AlisonDonut · 09/06/2022 14:01

There's a reason they sit these guys down to interview them.

Can't remember off the top of my head why...I mean standing up it is so hard to work out which ones 'used to be men'...

Penguintears · 09/06/2022 17:01

TheHomeContact · 08/06/2022 22:46

Actually.... Lots of transmen compete in men's sports. I've known several personally who have, including contact sports.

Something which probably helps this stay quieter is that transmen who have medically transitioned for a few years, with or without lower surgery, are really hard to notice. Many transwomen, more so those who transition later in life, don't always quite achieve the same level of passing.

In the contact sports I played, transmen were welcomed. And I know of transwomen who play the same sport. Supported, and fully part of their teams.

Most times, transwomen don't win their races or sports. Many are actually appalling after hormone treatment. Wins can occur but not often enough for it to be some massive issue. And they regulate the testosterone level very closely, to the point that women who were born women and never identified out of that label, who critics have slated for not looking womanly enough, pretty enough, dainty enough, have been tested and discovered to have higher levels of testosterone despite being genetically female.

And there's a case I read about the other day where a woman has been prevented from continuing her sport because they discovered she has xxy chromosomes. As far as she was aware, she was born a woman. But people's paranoia about whether a woman is even a woman, based on something as superficial and insulting as her natural appearance, means she now loses out.

Testosterone levels in a transwoman have to be much lower than natal womens' natural testosterone levels, to be allowed to compete in women's categories. This is in part why many transwomen don't perform well at all.

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So much disinformation in one post.

ThinkingaboutLangClegosaurus · 09/06/2022 19:14

TheHomeContact · 08/06/2022 22:55

Many natal women cannot conceive, and/or cannot birth a child. Pick on something else if you feel the need to put others down - you're only causing harm and distress to women with fertility issues when you drag that line up. Have a heart.

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Please don’t pretend you’re trying to defend women. I am childless, not by choice, and Virginia’s comment did not hurt or harm me. What does harm me is the relentless male push to take everything from women, including our name.

GoodThinkingMax · 09/06/2022 20:00

Ditto.

catandcoffee · 09/06/2022 20:12

Oh yes Emily... was interesting watching that interview with DH. I shall say no more 😷

334bu · 10/06/2022 08:24

mobile.twitter.com/WomensRightsNet/status/1534866596690378752?cxt=HHwWgIC-lbTC-MwqAAAA

Another amazing race by an older woman.

Mumsnut · 10/06/2022 08:39

Maybe we need a new word for Adult Human Female. I reckon I'll be a Rowling from now on. Can't see that being colonised in a hurry.

334bu · 17/06/2022 21:14

www.bbc.com/sport/cycling/61843636

I see Emily and mum still trying to persuade people, despite all the evidence against allowing male athletes to compete in the female category, that Emily ( who can still beat all the men) has absolutely no advantage over women. As my old mother would have said, " Aye right!"

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