Posted on 04/25/2023 9:57:40 PM PDT by lowbridge
A two-time Olympian has ripped rules that allowed a transgender runner to beat nearly 14,000 women in the female category of the London Marathon.
Mara Yamauchi — who finished sixth in the marathon at the 2008 Beijing Olympics — lashed out after trans racer Glenique Frank, 54, gushed to the BBC about using “girl power” to run the key UK race on Sunday.
“Males in the [female] category is UNFAIR for females,” Yamauchi tweeted alongside a clip of the mid-race interview by the sports bra-wearing runner who also gushed about soon becoming “a gran.”
“Nearly 14,000 actual females suffered a worse finish position [because] of” Frank, wrote Yamauchi — who said that even when she was “ranked second in the world” as a woman, “at least 1300 men ran faster than me.”
She noted how UK Athletics applied World Athletics’ rules on the exclusion of transgender women from elite female competitions at the end of March to make it “fair for athletes who have gone through male puberty to be excluded from the female category in athletics.”
However, it allowed those who had already entered races to still compete in categories that were not their biological sex.
“This male competed under UK Athletics’ transitional arrangements, but it is still wrong and unfair,” Yamauchi told Telegraph Sport.
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Why don’t they just make a third sports category for transgenders?
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Men win again lol.
What a joke.
You and your beliefs are part of the problem then.
In order for Society to be safe, it needs men to do dark things in the dead of the night. These same men you would disparage in the light of day because you are afraid of them. even though they are keeping you safe form the real predators while you sleep.
look away and don't mess with those who chose to be sheep dogs
if you are incapable of violence you are not you are not a peaceful person, you are nothing more than a burden on everybody else when SHTF.
only those who are capable of violence can be called truly peaceful people
suggested reading- What happened when they took the wolves out of Yellowstone national park and what happened when they were reintroduced.
predators were put here by God for a reason.
I don’t deny that. At all.
Who quit what?
Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.
My point exactly. Us men can stand up for women all we want and can, but until women take ownership of their own sports, it won’t change.
I know there are lots of TERFs in Britain (TERF is a transgender pyscho’s new F word), but there are laws against free speech in UK, if it ain’t celebrating LGBTadINFINITUM.
TERF is someone who wants men kept out of women’s private spaces.
Are you equating schoolyard bullies with special ops heroics?
That's one of the dumbest analogies I've heard in a long time.
You think it was intentional that my post showed up several times? Attack the ideas if you want, not the multiple posts.With that complaint you may have just wasted more of your time having to see more of my words.
Uhhh, rollo, we (and maybe just I, it seems) were talking about girls/women like Riley Gaines who have found that theirs is the only voice they can count on to defend themselves against the likes of Lia Thomas and the score of other bordercrossing trans Invaders into sports that were supposed to be conducted with only woman as competitors against EACH OTHER. Your argument makes no sense. It suggests we can’t expect anything remotely chivalrous from men to protect the female athletes FROM OTHER MEN... these OTHER MEN are thusly allowed to be the ones to BEAT real WOMEN as surely as if they had symbolically raped them in broad daylight., And so, you suggest all the women getting this public humiliation by MEN pretending to be WOMEN should pay the price for the uberfeminists invading spaces and having a wide berth given to them so they could threaten the sanctity of a
formerly Men-only domain? Riley Gaines and the others regularly getting mauled by men did NOT DO THAT! The fact that virtually NO men have spoken up (except perhaps those few on the Commissions and rule making Boards of Athletic Orgs, who can still set the rules and BAN trans men from competing against actual women, as a few HAVE done, but only a few. You’re suggesting because men have become crippled emotionally and financially they shouldn’t be expected to speak up against this injustice-—which, I/m sure you know, is not a “one-off” but just a small and particularly obnoxious part of a larger Agenda, which is being enacted in a hundred different places.
See my reply to rollo tomassi above ....all three of you sound alike, suggesting women like Riley Gaines should be neglected and undefended because a generation of uberfeminists who are NOT Riley Gaines invaded male-only spaces. Was it Riley Gaines who did that? NO. So basically all three of you seem to enjoy your own indifference to the issue. Let the women do it! Who are you suggesting SHOULD do it? Where are the so called feminists who SHOULD be defending the actual women athletes. They don’t because they back the bigger Agenda totally.
The idea of “a third sports category for transgenders” is perpetually interesting question,and idea, and one that took a long time to even be brought up. Out of fear, no doubt. No , the last thing any of the trans invaders want to do is compete against “their own kind”-—the reasons for this aversion to logic is what makes this entire sorry cultural assault so interesting, and it needs to be brought out into the open. AND as part of so much else that’s going on to undermine normality and the processes of law and the workings of the system we’re accustomed to, it can’t and shouldn’t be seen out of context
Hey I thought you and rollo and Ikeon were pretty much on the same page.Ikeon seemed to be semi-quoting a famous line of Orwell’s
I guess it depends on the issue.
In some ways, you and Ikeon are on the same page. You’re both chest-beaters. He’s defending bullies and “rough men.” You’re calling for men to “defend women as MEN.”
I consider schoolyard bullies to be cowards, and I consider white knights to be suckers.
No I don’t think so. I don’t have much in common with any of you three. I can’t see why you’re making someone like Riley Gaines (who is doing quite well without the help, even theoretically) the fall guy for a generation of aggressive Feminists. Staunch cultural gender analysts like you, are missing the point with great confusion . Good, Riley Gaines stepped up on her own, and in effect, by implication, attacked the very feminists you’ve conjured up, who have robbed you of any sympathy for women who have been symbolically raped by what are still, after all, MEN! Boy do you miss the point!
Good.
It’s hard to fathom a mind like yours. Totally short-circuited. No perspective on the matter at hand.
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