'Transgender policies unfair to women' - Sports Councils Equality Group

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www.womenarehuman.com/sports-councils-equality-group-research-determines-transgender-policies-unfair-to-women/

Wow! Finally an unambiguous statement of fact about the physicality of men and women.

Rumour has it they're going to be researching the toilet habits of bears next.....

Amazing.

Just need common sense like this to reach actual professional/elite sports.

So what, if anything, will actually change as a result of this?

The extract implies that this is an article about TW. As usual. Is it 'fair and safe' for transmen to be included within the male sports category?

Are there (m)any trans men with a desire to compete with natal men?

I'm not aware of any. They usually compete in the women's section. So sometimes TMAM and sometimes (when it suits them) TMAW.

There is one well known TM who swims professionally with the men. Never wins mind. Many TM probably do wish to compete with the men, but simply can't qualify.

I think they're proposing that all transpeople of either sex compete in the open category, alongside people of either sex who are not transgender.

Looks like we need more open category sports!

Would that mean transmen could no longer compete against women?

the SCEG found that men and women are very different

While the research found that it is fair and safe for transgender people to be included within the male sports category, it determined that competitive fairness was lost with self-identification into the women’s category

Rather vague on transmen.

Common sense would say TM should be alright in the women's category and technically wouldn't be "self identifying" into it anyway, seeing as they're already female?
The obvious issue would be if a TM is taking T which is a performance enhancing drug. Then it's a no-no. In fact shouldn't a TM on T theoretically be banned from the men's category too?

Do amateur sport clubs even check if people are on performance enhancing drugs anyway? Probably not.

Everybody knows this….

About time too.

@ArabellaScott

the SCEG found that men and women are very different

Who knew!

I wonder if Senator Claire Chandler in Tasmania has seen this yet ..

[https://www.senatorchandler.com.au/womens-sport]

@andyoldlabour

Why has it taken so long to recognise the bleedin' obvious?

precisely

No shit sherlock

As transmen have female bodies and, as long as they are not taking performance enhancing drugs like testosterone, they can continue to compete in the female categories, if they choose. All the transmen and non binary people born female who competed at the Tokyo Olympics, competed in the female category.

I'm not sure this is fair though. The poor men with hurty feelings who want to win as women will need to compete with fellow men. How will they feel pouting, head tilting and forming hearts with their hands obviously womening abilities next to men?