Olympic Boxing champ Nicola Adams calls for transgender athlete categories for fairness!!

[WomanBornNotWorn]

Puuuuulllll!

www.newschain.uk/womens-sport/olympics/double-olympic-boxing-champion-nicola-adams-calls-separate-category-transgender-athletes-4496

Great woman!

abso -friggin- lutely! Nice one, Nicola. Ignore the crazed genderists. Most rational people are behind you 100%

Great for her! (And I know it shouldn’t matter, and all that - but she is as cute as a button with that amazing smile).

Amazing woman, love her.

Awesome

Nicola - yes, excellent .

OK - what’s happening. Absolutely not complaining - but there’s been no TRA pile-on Nicola for this? It can’t have gone unnoticed, we all know certain people lurk here to monitor what we’re talking about, and it was picked up by ‘Trans Media Watch’ - which I think is Jane Fae amongst others. Can’t be because she’s an LGB sportswoman, that didn’t protect Martina.

So is the tide really turning?

Maybe because she is well liked and respected - is an unbelieving positive role model.

It would be like punching bambi in the face.

Absolute legend who makes an inspiring and safe role model for young women and girls. Unlike so many others I could mention.

Hasn’t she got her own barbie doll now?

Love Nicola, so really pleased to see she’s all over this issue. Well done, Nic!

Of course people should speak out against this, there are categories for disabled games, invictus games etc because people have different levels of disbailities and trans should be no different.

She always come at across as a really positive character - and a nice personality. Determined and strong. What a role model for kids (boys and girls). I want her to do reading sessions at schools!

What do you do? Well I trained every day, I was determined and never gave up. I exercise and eat well. I keep positive. I wine gold medals! I keep smiling!

Vs - I dress up as a caracature of a woman and make risqué jokes and horrible bitchy comments (often about how fishy women smell). Sometime I forget to wear my panties! Whoops! Call me Slutty De Mer... come and hug auntie...

I'm amazed at the total absence of trolling, threats, insults, bans, bla bla bla under Nicola's post. Could it be because she's a woman who could, you know, defend herself?

Maybe because she is well liked and respected - is an unbelieving positive role model.

So is Martina though, and her pile ones were horrific to say the least.

I am glad there has not been one here though of course. With a bit of luck, they have realised its simply a horrible look (and thing indeed, not just look) to be sending rape and death threats and porn to women who disagree with them. Maybe a little growing up has been done? I suspect not, but its possible..

Thank you Nicola!

@BatShite

Maybe because she is well liked and respected - is an unbelieving positive role model.

So is Martina though, and her pile ones were horrific to say the least.

I am glad there has not been one here though of course. With a bit of luck, they have realised its simply a horrible look (and thing indeed, not just look) to be sending rape and death threats and porn to women who disagree with them. Maybe a little growing up has been done? I suspect not, but its possible..

Could it be because she is black? Have any BAME people come out as GC and been slaughtered like Martina? Trans are heavily invested in intersectionality. Essentially the vast majority of their most vocal support comes from people with intersectional views and perhaps they instinctively hold back because intersectionality is the hand that feeds them, and taking on a black woman may be a step too far. Perhaps punching a 60 year old woman at speakers corner may be ok but in light of the BLM movement punching a 60 yr. old black woman would be bad optics. Either way I think as many people as possibly should take the time write to Nicola to thank her for her statement, send their love and offer her their support.

Maybe, but maybe not. Look at who is taking on the major court cases - Allison Bailey, Keira Bell, Maya Fortstater

She’s bloody brilliant!

@NotBadConsidering

She’s a brilliant role model - champion in her sport, black bisexual woman

Wonder why Mhairi Black doesn’t invite her to read stories to kids?

Don’t think she’s bi - just a boring old lesbian.

I think she’s a brilliant role model for girls. Seems like a lovely person too.

Just as she goes into Strictly too - first same sex dance partners in the UK competition.

All that attention, sunlight... shall we all vote for her no matter how bad she may be at actually dancing?

CALL TO ARMS
VOTE FOR NICOLA EVERY WEEK IN STRICTLY

I bloody well will!

I was going to say the same thing @CuriousaboutSamphire - we all need to keep voting for her in strictly to show her support! Exciting she'll be dancing with a woman, too. She's great for speaking out.

heavily invested in intersectionality

…. not really. The identity politics movement may historically have had its roots in concepts like intersectionality, but the current political lobby uses it in the same restricted and distorted way it uses the word 'kind' and 'inclusion' and other words perceived as powerful when used to others. There is no respect at all for the intersectionality or understanding the particular needs of any group other than the one the lobby agenda focuses on.

Seeing through the purposeful use of words to sway others without the lobby holding those values or being willing to apply those values to others is one of the many things that made me realise the many issues with the political ideology. Likewise, when the pile on to Nicola starts, as I suspect it will, it will be demonstrated again that reasonable, respectful solutions that meet everyone's needs will not be acceptable to this lobby.

It will always come down to the difference between TWATW - which is a positive, respected thing and those needs should absolutely be met by additional provisions, support, recognition - and TWAW which means that no solution is acceptable but ownership of everything female regardless of the consequences or impact on females.

Once it becomes fully clear to the general public that there is no care or interest in what happens to females as a result, that there is no reciprocation of these values, it will be seen that for some parts of this political lobby negotiation or compromise will never be possible because there will never be an appropriate reciprocal value for the needs, rights and equality of any other group. The only solution can be an imposed boundary to protect the rights of others from being compromised.