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George MJ Perry's avatar

This article does such a great job of flipping the script: instead of males in female sports, it's females in males sports. Either way, all females involved lose.

"But what if...?" No. It hurts women's sports.

"Except for when-" Stop, no. Hurts women's sport.

"Unless we - !" No really. It'll hurt women's sport.

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ThinkPieceOfPie's avatar

This is an excellent piece, because it addresses all the folx who like to say "but the girls should just refuse to compete! If they did that, this would come to an end." What this tells me about the person who says this is 1) they don't know much about how sports works, and 2) they want someone else to fix the problem, and aren't willing to do anything about it themselves. No, it is the adults in the room--the authorities--who need to stand up and do what they know is right.

It irks me that a scientist has to waste time doing a study to show what we all knew was true five minutes ago. But ok, now we have a study.

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Betsy Warrior's avatar

Excellent article on an aspect of the transgender movement I had not thought of before.

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Kat Highsmith's avatar

There is no such thing as "gender identity." Gender has no application to humans. It's a linguistics term and it applies to words only.

A male who "feels like" he's female is suffering from a delusion. Same for a female who wants to reject her body, for whatever reason, even if it inspires sympathy (past abuse, general disgust with misogyny, etc.). There is no identity in this.

Telling females that they should enter male sports, and they suffer no risk of physical harm or injury, is simply lie-based abuse. And allowing males to abuse females under the lie of "gender" is despicable.

None of this is real. The whole agenda has to be rejected.

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Frederick R Prete's avatar

A very good piece. It's amazing that this remains such a stubborn issue.

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BeadleBlog's avatar

Another untalented female here. I'm a plodder, but I'm a strong plodder with great endurance and determination. Let's hear it for the determined plodders!

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Charles Arthur's avatar

Really good piece which frames where the fault lies very effectively.

(One tweak I’d suggest: “inculcate” means to imbue or instil [in another or others]; the girl wouldn’t “inculcate” that she was bad at athletics. She might internalise it. That’s the only I-word I can think of just now to describe it.)

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Sarah Barker's avatar

oops, fixed

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