D Telegraph report on transgender women's disadvantage in sport!

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flyingbuttress43 · 12/04/2024 11:07

Apologies if this has been posted, but couldn't see it.

Piss poor study seeking to show transwomen are apparently disadvantaged against women in sport. The International Olympic Committee again. Self selected volunteers. They have no shame.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2024/04/12/ioc-accused-new-low-funding-study-transgender-women/

IOC accused of new low by funding study that claims trans women are at a disadvantage

Critics claim the study compared unfit transgender women with athletic cisgender rivals, in order to prove a point

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2024/04/12/ioc-accused-new-low-funding-study-transgender-women

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GillBeck · 27/10/2024 13:43

DustyAmuseAlien · 27/10/2024 13:16

I don't see the point of a category of sport that is open to highly trained and very fit women at the peak of their physical performance and mediocre men.

The point is the poor unfit males are sad they don’t win.

Though if we are to believe this study then it would be unfair to have them competing with women and they need their own category.

ErrolTheDragon · 27/10/2024 13:46

DustyAmuseAlien · 27/10/2024 13:16

I don't see the point of a category of sport that is open to highly trained and very fit women at the peak of their physical performance and mediocre men.

Well you're obviously not looking at it from the important perspective, i.e. that of the mediocre men.

WhatterySquash · 27/10/2024 23:52

They might as well say you should be able to compete in children's or disabled sporting competitions when you're not those things, because there's probably someone who's not those things who could be beaten by someone who is. That's just ... not a reason!

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