“We should be sending out a message to everyone that everyone is welcome no matter who you are, where you come from, your gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, whatever it is, everyone should feel welcome when they try sport,” he says. We don’t get into the question of fairness, here: the counter-argument runs that divers who were born biologically female would be at a clear competitive disadvantage. But So Daley’s point is a broader one. “I just think of myself girls and young women starting out on their careers when I was younger. I’m not transgender, obviously, but if I was told as a gay man female I was never going to be able to compete because of who I was (because, after all, inherent in the concept of competing is the potential to win), then of course I’d never have tried.”
Fixed.
So simple.
The only difference is that the "never going to be able to compete" is more accurate in my version, above, as women will be totally excluded from meaningful competition in the world he envisions, whereas "never" in his original version is a misrepresentation of "won't be feel able to compete in my preferred category."
Naivety? Hypocrisy? Bloody-mindedness? Sheer lack of intelligence? Misogyny?
Infuriating, regardless.