School sports

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AlphaTransWoman · 22/10/2023 23:40

Do you think it is ever acceptable to force a child assigned male at birth to participate in contact sports at school such as football or rugby. If so do you appreciate the distress this may cause to children born with a male body who have a female gender identity?

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JanesLittleGirl · 29/10/2023 15:55

SapphireSeptember · 29/10/2023 15:46

@SpiderMaam True that. Has anyone complained about it yet?

So women aren't supposed to like contact sports but it's okay for us to be good at maths?

That's a relief. I was worried that I might be a man as I'm good at maths and loved hockey. I wasn't very good at it but I could run around like mad and shout my head off for 90 minutes. Hockey was good too.

Witchesdontburn · 29/10/2023 16:20

Nellodee · 24/10/2023 13:50

I’m pondering on the similarity of the starting positions of trans people like Alpha and gender critical feminists. I can see from one aspect that both start from the same position, that some people find gendered expectations a cruel cage. Both agree that the cage exists. Both want, in some way, to escape the cage they are initially placed in.

However, transwomen want to get into a cage that has all the other women in it, call that cage womanhood and close the door behind them. Gender critical women want the cage destroyed, or at the very least, the doors wide open, so anyone is free to come and go as they please.

Then we come to sex. Gender critical women may not like the gendered expectation cage, but they still want sometimes to receive different treatment to men, because they can see that their bodies are not men’s bodies. They are on average weaker, smaller, they menstruate and become pregnant. They don’t want a prison with the name woman on it, just a private space where they can cope with the additional vulnerabilities that their sexed bodies require. They’ve been used to having this space - it’s valuable to them and they have a real need for it.

Why are we being asked to believe that we don’t need this sexed space, because it’s been taken over by a branch of the gender prison that now has transwomen in it? In fact, we’re told, it was never a single sexed space, it was always a gendered space. Get back in your cage, women. You are no different to the transwomen who have climbed in there with you and the door must remain locked at all times.

Brilliantly put

Isthisreasonable · 30/10/2023 10:12

@AlphaTransWoman by your logic liking gospel music would make you black.

Ritasueandbobtoo9 · 30/10/2023 10:49

I like Rugby, map reading, wearing trousers, driving furiously, fighting and beer drinking. Yet I am not a man or ever will be.

SausagesAreAmazing · 30/10/2023 12:35

I've met my spirit twin in @Ritasueandbobtoo9

Mmmmm beer!

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