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pietillidie
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think positive
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stui magpie
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I read that. Interesting that Basketball Aus applied the criteria for semi elite sports but said they would welcome trans people at community sport level.
2 women on the 3 person panel to make the decision, both well credentialed, decision made I guess. I tend to discount that the other women on the team she wanted to play for were very welcoming, any sports team will always welcome a potential gun new player, don't know how the opposition players were thinking though. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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think positive
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Exactly!
Andrew bogut is correct, women’s sport is for women. _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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David
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Probably belongs more in the WTF thread, but anyhow:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-66538328.amp
Would love to hear the reasoning behind this: transgender women are too intelligent!?
Of course it all raises the question of why there are even men’s and women’s chess competitions to begin with. _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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stui magpie
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That is strange. I know far call about chess competitions, in the article it says Trans people can still compete in Open competitions, so they must have various things.
Mens and womens tend to operate differently but whether one or the other is inherently better at something like Chess I have NFI. Chess is like Poker to a degree in that it's a game of skill that requires zero strength. Very strange. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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yes and no, i guess its a precedent. for me anything that has always been separated by gender, still should be, it stops grey areas.
and no David, transgender women are not too intelligent, chess is more than intelligence, and i believe there are open competitions too, so not sure what the problem is.
reading down its brilliant to see this:
"Meanwhile on Wednesday World Aquatics said it would debut a new open category for transgender athletes at this year's Swimming World Cup event in Berlin after it voted last year to stop transgender athletes from competing in women's elite races."
now how hard was that? _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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pietillidie
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Yeah, i saw that chess thing. That's one the transgender panickers should be attacking the other way; i.e., it is registering a difference when none exists for no known reason. _________________ In the end the rain comes down, washes clean the streets of a blue sky town.
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