One tendency I’ve noticed in women is that when faced with males who we see are aggressive or dangerous, we often don’t fight them. Instead we seek to align ourselves and make ourselves useful to them. This makes sense from an evolutionary biology standpoint - the vast majority of women could have never won a physical battle against a high status man and would likely be killed if they crossed the man in charge. So female psychology evolved to respond to dangerous men by appeasing them. To me, this is the biggest reason why so many women go along with transgender ideology, specifically related to allowing males in female sports and other places. And the transgender activist community reinforces this natural tendency in women by actually attacking women who cross them, which makes sure the remaining women will think twice about the consequences of disagreeing with them.
'The parents are in positions of power—editors, business leaders, legislators. It’s frightening.'
I've always said this. Along with the new generation of University graduates and post-graduate PhD holders that have been recruited into this ideology and who are the leaders and decisions-makers on shaping policy, laws and culture in organisations and institutions across the board. In key positions of power and influence. That is 'extremely' frightening, on so many levels.
I disagree on one point to state that understanding the trans cult and mediocre male athletes ramming their way into female sports is not complicated. I like that various, uncomplicated reasons are presented for some going along. Some is evolutionary, as in females having to accommodate males. But in western cultures that evolution has progressed to allow females more boundaries and opportunities, just as the male peasantry no longer has to bow down to the king's men. Some women are still behind on the evolution. Some females go along because they have a distorted perception of femininity, a perception that being female is about clothing and makeup or being "nice." But it's clearly not nice to tyrannically demand female athletes compete against males. It's also not nice or feminine to tyrannize other women and girls to tell them they to shut up as male flashers/fetishists are allowed to invade female private spaces. Then there's the fact that females are often raised around misogyny and learn to despise other females. Those are the "Women are hard to work with and I prefer to work with men" types. I also believe some of the female athletes are trying to crush younger female athletes and prevent them from breaking records. Some females will always hold males on a pedestal and will get hysterical if any woman says anything against a male human being. Billie Jean King is a retired athlete and a public figure, and as such she has a responsibility to lead which she has abdicated. Navratilova has not abdicated. It's definitely depressing when male sportswriters (or politicians) go along with the chants. Some seem to be delighted when women get knocked around by the mediocre male athletes. Maybe they are mad at an ex, or maybe they just hate women. It's misogyny and not complicated.
I wrote this article some months ago and NO Australian paper or publication wanted to publish it!!
The Conundrum of Transgender Women
Years ago, ‘doping’ used to be a worldwide problem during local and international sporting events. Athletes had begun using testosterone and other drugs for which tests had not yet been developed. Several international sports federations attempted to stop the spread of this problem, but with little effect. These days we have a new issue, the controversy of transgender athletes seeking to compete in female competitions.
In March this year, World Athletics president Sebastian Coe, spoke after a meeting of the global track and field federation’s decision-making body, and stated that transgender women will no longer be allowed to compete in female track and field events, regardless of their levels of testosterone. “The council has agreed to exclude male or female transgender athletes who have been through male puberty from female ranking competitions from 31 March this year”. Coe mentioned that World Athletics had consulted with stakeholders including the International Olympic Committee and national federations about the issue of transgender athletes. He also added “We’re not saying ‘no’ forever” adding that a working group headed by a transgender person would be created to further monitor scientific developments.
On 16th June Tracey Holmes posted in an ABC article, that the Australian Sports Commission (ASC) released its guidelines for the inclusion of transgender and diverse athletes in high performance sports. The ASC recommended that testosterone limits should be imposed by National Federations to determine the eligibility of transwomen in sport. The Australian Sports Commission CEO Kieren Perkins said the new guidelines were developed to offer the clarity domestic sports h requested. The article also mentioned: There is a well organised group of female athletes who continue to lobby against inclusion on the basis that hard fought gains in women’s sport are being eroded by the inclusion of transgender women. I understand their “angst” Perkins said.
In another article “Testosterone limit push for trans athletes” the Australian Institute of Sport” was quoted “If a sport seeks to introduce a testosterone threshold for transgender athletes seeking to join professional competitions, the AIS suggests it should require levels below 2.5 nanomoles per litre for a minimum of two years.”
I’m not a medical person, but what is the difference between male athletes illegally taking testosterone to perform better and now female transgender women having to suppress their testosterone level? It doesn’t make sense, and how can that be a “healthy” thing to do? Many years ago, I used to work in the Cytogenetics department in POW Sydney. Therefore, I see this issue from a more scientific angle. In athletics sports, there is proof beyond reasonable doubt, that there is an average 10-12% performance gap between elite males and females.
In humans, each cell normally contains 23 pairs of chromosomes. Twenty-two of these pairs, called autosomes, look the same in both males and females. The 23rd pair, the sex chromosomes, differ between males and females. These two sets of sex chromosomes (the X and the Y chromosome) determine your sex as male or female when you are born. Females have 2 X chromosomes (46XX) Males have 1 X and 1 Y chromosome (46XY)
I’m a sex therapist now and very supportive of the Transgender community, but from a scientific point of view, a transgender female can change any part of her body, but the only thing that cannot be changed is her chromosome karyotype. A fair solution is to have a female transgender athlete undergo a simple chromosome analysis, usually done on a blood sample. If the outcome is that she has a 46XY result, consideration much be given if it would be fair to be competing with a 46XX athlete.
I asked some of my friends this question, to my surprise one of them has a 21-year-old daughter who plays soccer. In a recent game her daughter played opposite a transgender player. My friend noticed a physical strength advantage held by the transgender player, illustrated clearly when other members from her team refused to sub for her for fear of getting injured. I already mentioned before, being supportive of the transgender community, but what about female elite athletes who have been training for years and even girls and women in local sport settings, who have a clear disadvantage. Therefore, my Soapbox question is: What about them?
Having written for newspapers and magazines for 30 years.. Your draft lacks focus. Sum up to yourself what it is saying in one sentence, and then cut out everything that doesn’t support that. (The chromosome stuff reads as irrelevant because you’ve meandered off into your past career.) If the soccer example is part of the article.. make it add to the story instead of distracting from it.
Writing for news publications takes practice. Try typing out published opinion articles that you admire and figure out how they are structured, how you would say it, what they say that you missed.
A lot of these boomers simply have no clue what is going on. They aren't aware of the level of male stupidity and perversion because it just isn't something they witness personally, online, in school, etc. The train of history has passed them by, and so they go with "adults can do what they want!" or "this is a human rights issue!" They're clueless and have no real value in this fight. I don't mean to be rude to them, but it's like old school doctors who didn't have a problem with lobotomies. Clueless.
And people in general, especially men, either do not care or are just ignorant.
When this fraud collapses, TERFs like me are going to remind everyone who minimized or facilitated this.
One tendency I’ve noticed in women is that when faced with males who we see are aggressive or dangerous, we often don’t fight them. Instead we seek to align ourselves and make ourselves useful to them. This makes sense from an evolutionary biology standpoint - the vast majority of women could have never won a physical battle against a high status man and would likely be killed if they crossed the man in charge. So female psychology evolved to respond to dangerous men by appeasing them. To me, this is the biggest reason why so many women go along with transgender ideology, specifically related to allowing males in female sports and other places. And the transgender activist community reinforces this natural tendency in women by actually attacking women who cross them, which makes sure the remaining women will think twice about the consequences of disagreeing with them.
'The parents are in positions of power—editors, business leaders, legislators. It’s frightening.'
I've always said this. Along with the new generation of University graduates and post-graduate PhD holders that have been recruited into this ideology and who are the leaders and decisions-makers on shaping policy, laws and culture in organisations and institutions across the board. In key positions of power and influence. That is 'extremely' frightening, on so many levels.
I disagree on one point to state that understanding the trans cult and mediocre male athletes ramming their way into female sports is not complicated. I like that various, uncomplicated reasons are presented for some going along. Some is evolutionary, as in females having to accommodate males. But in western cultures that evolution has progressed to allow females more boundaries and opportunities, just as the male peasantry no longer has to bow down to the king's men. Some women are still behind on the evolution. Some females go along because they have a distorted perception of femininity, a perception that being female is about clothing and makeup or being "nice." But it's clearly not nice to tyrannically demand female athletes compete against males. It's also not nice or feminine to tyrannize other women and girls to tell them they to shut up as male flashers/fetishists are allowed to invade female private spaces. Then there's the fact that females are often raised around misogyny and learn to despise other females. Those are the "Women are hard to work with and I prefer to work with men" types. I also believe some of the female athletes are trying to crush younger female athletes and prevent them from breaking records. Some females will always hold males on a pedestal and will get hysterical if any woman says anything against a male human being. Billie Jean King is a retired athlete and a public figure, and as such she has a responsibility to lead which she has abdicated. Navratilova has not abdicated. It's definitely depressing when male sportswriters (or politicians) go along with the chants. Some seem to be delighted when women get knocked around by the mediocre male athletes. Maybe they are mad at an ex, or maybe they just hate women. It's misogyny and not complicated.
I need to add that there are no "trans kids." There are youngsters that have been manipulated and brainwashed into self-destruction.
There are no "trans" adults either. Because there's no such thing as "trans." The whole thing is a lie.
Thank you for fixing my oversight! Yes, the whole "trans" tower of cards is a load of sewage.
Yes, it is!
I wrote this article some months ago and NO Australian paper or publication wanted to publish it!!
The Conundrum of Transgender Women
Years ago, ‘doping’ used to be a worldwide problem during local and international sporting events. Athletes had begun using testosterone and other drugs for which tests had not yet been developed. Several international sports federations attempted to stop the spread of this problem, but with little effect. These days we have a new issue, the controversy of transgender athletes seeking to compete in female competitions.
In March this year, World Athletics president Sebastian Coe, spoke after a meeting of the global track and field federation’s decision-making body, and stated that transgender women will no longer be allowed to compete in female track and field events, regardless of their levels of testosterone. “The council has agreed to exclude male or female transgender athletes who have been through male puberty from female ranking competitions from 31 March this year”. Coe mentioned that World Athletics had consulted with stakeholders including the International Olympic Committee and national federations about the issue of transgender athletes. He also added “We’re not saying ‘no’ forever” adding that a working group headed by a transgender person would be created to further monitor scientific developments.
On 16th June Tracey Holmes posted in an ABC article, that the Australian Sports Commission (ASC) released its guidelines for the inclusion of transgender and diverse athletes in high performance sports. The ASC recommended that testosterone limits should be imposed by National Federations to determine the eligibility of transwomen in sport. The Australian Sports Commission CEO Kieren Perkins said the new guidelines were developed to offer the clarity domestic sports h requested. The article also mentioned: There is a well organised group of female athletes who continue to lobby against inclusion on the basis that hard fought gains in women’s sport are being eroded by the inclusion of transgender women. I understand their “angst” Perkins said.
In another article “Testosterone limit push for trans athletes” the Australian Institute of Sport” was quoted “If a sport seeks to introduce a testosterone threshold for transgender athletes seeking to join professional competitions, the AIS suggests it should require levels below 2.5 nanomoles per litre for a minimum of two years.”
I’m not a medical person, but what is the difference between male athletes illegally taking testosterone to perform better and now female transgender women having to suppress their testosterone level? It doesn’t make sense, and how can that be a “healthy” thing to do? Many years ago, I used to work in the Cytogenetics department in POW Sydney. Therefore, I see this issue from a more scientific angle. In athletics sports, there is proof beyond reasonable doubt, that there is an average 10-12% performance gap between elite males and females.
In humans, each cell normally contains 23 pairs of chromosomes. Twenty-two of these pairs, called autosomes, look the same in both males and females. The 23rd pair, the sex chromosomes, differ between males and females. These two sets of sex chromosomes (the X and the Y chromosome) determine your sex as male or female when you are born. Females have 2 X chromosomes (46XX) Males have 1 X and 1 Y chromosome (46XY)
I’m a sex therapist now and very supportive of the Transgender community, but from a scientific point of view, a transgender female can change any part of her body, but the only thing that cannot be changed is her chromosome karyotype. A fair solution is to have a female transgender athlete undergo a simple chromosome analysis, usually done on a blood sample. If the outcome is that she has a 46XY result, consideration much be given if it would be fair to be competing with a 46XX athlete.
I asked some of my friends this question, to my surprise one of them has a 21-year-old daughter who plays soccer. In a recent game her daughter played opposite a transgender player. My friend noticed a physical strength advantage held by the transgender player, illustrated clearly when other members from her team refused to sub for her for fear of getting injured. I already mentioned before, being supportive of the transgender community, but what about female elite athletes who have been training for years and even girls and women in local sport settings, who have a clear disadvantage. Therefore, my Soapbox question is: What about them?
Having written for newspapers and magazines for 30 years.. Your draft lacks focus. Sum up to yourself what it is saying in one sentence, and then cut out everything that doesn’t support that. (The chromosome stuff reads as irrelevant because you’ve meandered off into your past career.) If the soccer example is part of the article.. make it add to the story instead of distracting from it.
Writing for news publications takes practice. Try typing out published opinion articles that you admire and figure out how they are structured, how you would say it, what they say that you missed.
A lot of these boomers simply have no clue what is going on. They aren't aware of the level of male stupidity and perversion because it just isn't something they witness personally, online, in school, etc. The train of history has passed them by, and so they go with "adults can do what they want!" or "this is a human rights issue!" They're clueless and have no real value in this fight. I don't mean to be rude to them, but it's like old school doctors who didn't have a problem with lobotomies. Clueless.
And people in general, especially men, either do not care or are just ignorant.
When this fraud collapses, TERFs like me are going to remind everyone who minimized or facilitated this.