TW selected for angling team leads to half the team quitting the squad.

[Justme56]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12181413/Half-England-ladies-angling-team-quit-trans-woman-selected-join-squad.html

Hopefully the other teams now withdraw in solidarity.

It isn't even as simple as 'strength' meaning muscle strength, but the structural sex differences like hand size, shoulder width, reach, hip placement. They affect more sports than you'd think, probably including this one.

Well done those women! I’m getting so sick of this cheating and disrespect for women’s sports.

This was my initial reaction too, but if you read the article, it explains:

She said male-born competitors had far more upper-body strength, adding: 'This is such an advantage, with the ability to cast longer distances than any woman. They have the capability of doing this while using more powerful equipment, such as stiffer and more powerful rods.

'Not to mention the extra strength she has wading in and out of the surf or walking through mud and rocks, and the stamina to keep this going for four or five hours.
'I have no grudge personally. This is an advantage to our team, but we find it totally unfair to other nations.

So yes, it seems that biological sex matters very much in angling, and this is very unfair indeed.

It shouldn’t even matter if there is physical advantage or not. Women who want to do an activity with and against women only should not have to argue for the right to do so.

Following up on rifle shooting: evidence is varied and contradictory on sex differences.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6513084/

So women, defending their title, do not want to disadvantage other women and pull out.

These men do not give a shiny shit who they disadvantage if it means they win.

Tell me there are no differences between men and women again?

Thank you to those women. You've sacrificed your own angling careers for the greater good of women's sport

'Transgender competitors are ruining our sport,'

Said weightlifters, swimmers, track runners, cyclists, rugby players, golfers and boxers.

brave women, I salute them. This is the only way to stop narcissistic men ruining women's sports, refuse to compete. A generation of women will miss out but it will eventually stop these men invading for kicks.

This is a brave, and sad, move for those women to take. I wonder if its the only way women's sport can really respond?

Praying for an undertow.

Good for those women, and yet more proof that transgender ideology destroys what it touches.

This.

One by one every sport will face the same. Every women's group. Everything that women set up for themselves and fought for.

There are a ridiculous amount of comments on Twitter by men saying 'it's angling, how can there be an advantage?, them being asked if they've actually read the article they are commenting on and them then admitting that no, they haven't. A couple refusing to do so because they 'won't give the Mail clicks'. A few commenting that, even without reading it, they know it's all 'based on bigotry'.

It's always quite depressing to see such a lack of critical thinking and intellectual curiosity.

I can only think of rifle shooting as a potential sport where sex wouldn’t make a difference.

Men & women compete in equal terms in equestrian sports - dressage, eventing, showing, show jumping etc.
In racing there are an increasing number of successful women jockeys.
Not sure about polo.

And agree with pp's about a huge deal of respect to these women for taking a stand even when it would have been an advantage to their team because they saw how unfair it was to other teams.

Why are angling competitions spit into genders ?

RTF article Maddy.

And how many of them have ever been fishing themselves?

I haven't done it in years, following a nasty accident, but I never could cast as far as the men.

They’re not maddy, they’re split by sex

hth

Yes it's great they've taken a stand, and I think it's so much more powerful that they are doing so from the inside of the potential winning team, rather than as the losers whose protestations are often reframed as sour grapes.

Further, it's actually really helpful that so many women are explaining how sex differences matter in their particular sports now, as even I used to believe the lie that there were "very few" sports where biological sex makes a difference, and I used to think it was only about contact sports like boxing and rugby.

But the sunlight on the practical details of sex-based performance discrepancies in each of these sports makes it so clear just how often sex does actually matter after all.

That’s interesting- OK, another one off the list!

I think there’s actually even an eyesight difference between men and women which impacts shooting performance.

I posted an analysis of evidence of sex difference in shooting - its contradictory! Some studies show advantages for males, some don't.