Posted on 11/26/2019 6:49:43 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Next year’s Tokyo Summer Olympics may spell the swift death of the transgender movement as a dominant politically-correct touchstone. Biological men, self-identifying as women, are poised to make a clean sweep of the Women’s Olympics, triggering a very public debate on this third-rail subject. That firestorm, pitting pro-women feminists against extreme pro-transgender progressives, will begin July 24th, just as the Presidential sweepstakes moves into its sprint to the finish line.
The International Olympic Committee -- the IOC -- recently admitted they couldn’t come up with fair guidelines governing how and when transgender women can compete as women, against biological women. Currently, the IOC says self-identified women can compete, so long as their testosterone level remains below 10 nanomoles per liter (nm/l) for 12 months. Typically, men have between 7.7 and 29.4 nm/l of testosterone, while women have between 0.12 and 1.77 nm/l. Under those IOC guidelines, hormonally-restricted men can still maintain nearly 500 percent testosterone advantage over women.
However, the real benefit transgender women experience, according to recent studies by Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet, a leading medical university, is found in their masculine bone structure and upper body strength. This develops throughout puberty, making current testosterone levels largely insignificant. These masculine genetic benefits are the very reason for women’s athletics.
“Not every male advantage dissipates when testosterone drops” according to Alison Heather, a physiologist at the University of Otago in New Zealand. “Some advantages, such as their bigger bone structure, greater lung capacity, and larger heart size remain. Testosterone also promotes muscle memory. Transgender women have a heightened ability to build strength even after they transition,” Heather explained.
Olympic Gold Medalist Paula Radcliffe called it “naïve” not to think transgender women “will become a threat to female sport, asserting “people will manipulate the system.”
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“....pro-women feminists against extreme pro-transgender progressives....”
The nastier the better!
The only thing it will kill is women sports. Women vote overwhelmingly for liberals. They made their bed let them lie in it.
swift death of transgender movement
It can’t get here soon enough!
Pass the popcorn. This train wreck is just getting started.
They can't - so don't let them.
The East German women’s Olympic Team could make a comeback. I wonder how many normal men will be willing to watch women’s Olympics if the Olympic Committee allows this.
It’s not that difficult. Just define women to be those without a Y chromosome.
We are seeing the beginning of the collision which is engendered by the massive contradiction of progressiveness. The promote complete personal autonomy in all things while also demanding absolute government regulation of all things. The two can’t exist together for long.
That’s the truth. If most women choose to vote for Democrats because of “compassion”, let them live witgthe consequences. Of course, that os unfair to all those women who don’t support leftists.
That testing should be mandatory....
Should be hilarious.
I want this to be thrust into the public’s field of vision, so no one can be ignorant of what’s happening. I want it to be blatantly obvious that there are men posing as women, and beating women.
Everyone knows that almost every sport has a woman’s team and a man’s team. Everyone knows, but is afraid to say that it’s because, on average, males are stronger and have a different kind of strength than females. (Men’s tees, women’s tees in golf.)
Letting a man play on a women’s team forces everyone to hold two contradictory thoughts in their minds at the same time. Political correctness scares most people, and they babble and slobber rather than admit the contradiction.
Nothing will change, but it’s nice to know that the folks were forced to see the contradiction, even if they are too scared to do anything about it.
This is fun to watch. When liberal radicalism folds in on itself in an ever advancing and dynamic lunacy, feelings are gonna get hurt. The stupid just keeps getting bigger. And somehow, they still have followers.
Unless they ban men from women’s sports, there will be mass boycotts of women’s sports at the Olympics. Many women will refuse to compete with men. How rich will that be? (and actually justified)
“....pro-women feminists against extreme pro-transgender progressives....”
I might go back on cable to watch this happen
A couple of years ago, the US women’s national soccer team scrimmaged a boys under-15 academy team located in Dallas. The boys team won 5-2.
A surprisingly well thought out analysis.
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