Transgender athletes back on the agenda

[think positive]

[David]

[think positive]

[David]

The point is that, while I'm sure there were transgender athletes who would have liked to compete, none were presumably good enough. And whatever the complicated reasons for that lack of participation last time around, that's an indication that fears about transgender dominance of women's sport are way overblown – and future trans participation and even gold medals and world record-breaking isn't going to change that.

[think positive]

I don’t know why an6 didn5 compete, bu5 the6 are breaking world records so obviously it’s not because they are not good enough. Not good enough for men’s maybe.

[stui magpie]

[Bucks5]

https://babylonbee.com/news/motorcycle-that-identifies-as-bicycle-sets-world-cycling-record

[thesoretoothsayer]

[think positive]

Hehe, love it!

[Skids]

https://www.facebook.com/624484764654114/posts/780179332417989/

[thesoretoothsayer]

Thanks. I was hoping to see the clip.
Randy Savage would've made a "stunning a brave" woman.

[stui magpie]

This is an interesting article. I make no comment other than I still don't get it, but it's an interesting read.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-19/australia-talks-what-its-like-to-parent-a-non-binary-child/11714740

[think positive]

hmm, how do they pronounce the name?

personally i reckon they are adding to the kids confusion.

[thesoretoothsayer]

Perhaps the transition went like this?

"Mummies, I'm a boy."
"Ugh, men are disgusting, evil, rapists!"
"Mummies, I'm a boy."
"Enough of your oppressive, patriarchal bullshit!"
"Mummies, I'm a non=binary, two-spirit pansexual."
"We love you Caius".

[David]

^ I think that's a deeply unfair (and, dare I say it, homophobic) presumption. As it happens, I did some googling out of curiosity and found an old blog that one of the mothers had written from around the time when she was trying to conceive a child up to a couple of years into early parenthood. I obviously don't have the time or interest to go through all of it, but from the couple of posts I've read she speaks candidly and honestly about the pride and excitement she feels about the boy she is going to give birth to, and there's no hint that I can detect of an agenda to suppress his maleness. Having read that, your grotesque caricature just seems even more heartless and divorced from reality.

Of course, different parents will react in different ways to their child expressing ambivalence about their gender, and I do sometimes wonder if some parents may attach too much weight to early declarations of gender identity (or lack thereof). But the fact is that some children do, from a very early age, express serious discomfort with the gender role that is placed upon them. Sometimes it can be reasonably dismissed as a whim, and I'd be the last to advise parents to jump at the first sign of gender dysphoria and put their child on hormone treatments; but, when this goes on for years, then a parent is left with the choice to either take it seriously and work to accommodate the child's preferences, or else to suppress them and potentially make them miserable in the process. From my observation, parents – no matter how politically conservative or uneducated about trans or non-binary stuff they may be to begin with – usually end up being supportive in the long run, because they love their child and understand that these preferences won't simply go away. By the same token, automatically treating a same-sex couple as the deliberate architects of their child's gender questioning – because, you know, that's just the kind of nefarious thing gay parents are supposed to do, or something – is allowing prejudice to shape your response to this.