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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Sporting bodies who have begged to keep women's sports SEX segregated...

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Barracker · 05/03/2019 17:04

...are in this twitter thread.

mobile.twitter.com/HairyLeggdHarpy/status/1052199906105016321

These are the UK sporting organisations who begged the UK government in 2004 to be exempted from the forthcoming GRA forcing them to include males in women's sports.

Some sporting bodies asked for anonymity.
Just take a moment to ponder that.

Every single submission opposed males in women's sports.

I shall add some quotes from their 2004 submissions below:

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MeAgainAgain · 06/03/2019 18:03

"There's a conflation between participating and competing. No one is saying that transwomen should not participate in sports; what we are saying is that they should not competing against women."

this

SheRasBra · 06/03/2019 18:21

What is so utterly infuriating to me is that the IOC turned themselves inside out ensuring that Oscar Pistorius didn't have any advantage when he wanted to compete against able-bodied male sprinters.

They spent many months examining data about the lack of muscle fatigue that he would benefit from in using his blades and the constant force of return and therefore forward momentum they gave him. They then dictated that he must forever more use the exact specification of blades that they had evaluated in their research. God forbid that men should be disadvantaged in any way.

But women's sports? Meh...get your T down a bit love, that'll do.

SheRasBra · 06/03/2019 18:23

My bad - it was the IAAF that banned him initially due to the perceived advantage of his blades.

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