Posted on 09/28/2019 7:35:00 AM PDT by RArtfulogerDodger
I am a female who performed moderately hard physical labor and weight training almost 40 years ago, in my 20’s. The strongest female will be defeated by almost every male, even a pre adolescent or skinny male. The leverage of an extra inch or two alone on a limb gives a tremendous advantage. No way will female hormones take away that advantage.
You need to spend money to study what most people already know?
Who paid for this study of the completely obvious?
Say it ain’t so Joe!
Paging Captain Obvious.
The physical development of males during adolescence gives them more than just greater muscle mass. The manner in which ligaments attach to bones, the tendons that move the bones, and the bone’s relative lengths convey a huge leverage advantage.
This cannot be undone by hormone therapy. Progressives like to deny science, while claiming a monopoly of knowledge about it.
Still a man by DNA? Check. More muscle mass? Check. Heavier bone density? Check. Leftists are complete morons? Check.
The big beefy woman athlete in the picture, though, being in "transition", is apparently taking testosterone. Isn't that considered doping?
I read recently about the level of testosterone in TW's that is considered OK for competing with women. Although lower than that of almost all men, it's still on an order of 10x the amount a real, unaltered, undoped woman would have.
These athletic competitions are supposed to demonstrate which athlete is the best, not which chemical-hormonal regimen is best.
Does that make sense?
It’s not the academic and government feminists who are suffering here. It’s girl athletes who had nothing do with inventing and enforcing the new gender ideology.
The young woman in question (who has bee told she can turn into a man if she has surgery and takes excess testosterone) wanted to compete in the boys' weight class in wrestling. The rules stipulated that since the girl was born a girl, with XX chromosomes, she had to compete against women - even with the boosted testosterone levels.
In short, it was an epic fustercluck at that time. I don't know if the rules have been re-written yet.
It's viewed as one thing if those who are girls who think they are guys are trying to compete against guys. The dumpster fire is that when these middle of the pack boys/men decide they want to be a girl - have not taken any hormones, still have all the testosterone coursing through their veins along with greater muscle mass, bone density, lung capacity, and recovery times are competing against girls/women who are not on the same capability level.
Yet none of the idiot liberals are standing up and saying no. So in the sports where speed, power, strength are a mandate for the sport, it's a massacre. (Such as weightlifting, track and field, wrestling, etc.)
The girls competing can't say jack for being banned for hate speech but are losing out left and right to these men who claim they are girls (sorry but you're a manual, not an automatic, and thus a guy no matter who told you otherwise!)
These girls are damned if they do, damned if they don't - and there's plenty I've read, including here, who are still bent over Title IX coming into play and the universities, instead of expanding budgets for these new opportunities, cut the non-money making sports for guys and it's been acrimony since.
And as I read this week (and forget where)... when men can be women, then women are non-existent. The neo-traditionalism of forcing women out of previous opportunities such as scholarships and college options because men who claim to be women are taking those scholarships and competing against more women and beating them every single time. It makes me think that these liberals who are enabling such behavior are truly misogynistic and girls are clamoring to go right along with it and will lose out on so much in the coming decade - all because some liberal idiot said to a mentally ill child, Yes, you can become a woman if you say so.
The coddling will continue as long as the root causes - child abuse - are ignored.
Well said. Thank you for contributing these insights.
Exactly what I said.
Definitely a good question
Put weight restrictions and new categories on all sports - NOT just boxing.
That’ll knock out most of the ‘men pretending to be women’ from women’s sports. The category for women’s swim sports for people over 170 would mean the fake women would mostly be competing against5 each other.
I guess but it still acknowledges a nonreality.
We can fight these weirdos are more than one front at a time...
Weight restrictions would stop the most dangerous fake women from being able to cripple or physically damage women athletes...
Some fake woman weighs 200 pounds she's not going to make the same volleyball team with real women weighing less than 150 pounds.
It's not a perfect solution - that would require people to put aside their delusions that cosmetic surgery changes a person's sex.
Agree!
I just have a hard time agreeing to nonsense.
I agree with you.
But we need to protect real women athletes from the damaged large men pretending to be women can inflict on them.
Eventually we need to tell these people that cosmetic surgery doesn’t change their sex. That they can pretend ‘to be a bird’ but that doesn’t give them the right to sh*t on our floors...(since real birds don’t use toilets)
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