1ºSo here is the problem. Hate me if you want. But the only reason this is happening is because of transgender people wanting to compete in competitions as the identity they want to be. Sorry but if you are born male you compete against men. Regardless of how you feel your body is still male. And because these people want to complete against women we have to test for testosterone. And now women who are born women who have higher levels of testosterone natural can't compete. Not fair!! Example the transgender hurdler. He competed as a man and wasn't great but not bad. Then he comes back as a women and blows away the field. He can't compete because his testosterone levels are to hight. Well he us a man regardless of how he feels. His body will develop different then more women. His muscles will stack better and different them women. That is fact. Transgender people have to realize that. And it isn't a civil right thing is just isn't fair to the natural woman!!
2ºThis is ridiculous. Let these women, and anyone else with a NATURAL hormonal condition, compete! They were BORN THIS WAY! As someone with PCOS, which many women have, it causes high T. So apparently if you have PCOS or any other hormonal condition l, you cannot compete. How is that not health discrimination!? And if you notice, this year particularly, the "rules" are all affecting mostly WOMEN! From THC, to "dress codes", and bans for your bodys natural processes. I thought the point of the Olympics was to CELEBRATE our greatest athletes and all their accomplishments, regardless of their anatomy and physiology!?
3ºThe story being told is clearly lacking information. I mean these athletes cannot blame international governing agencies for having surgeries: the president of the international track and field federation didn’t force them to go under surgery. And on top of it she said that she thought she was having injections and instead woke up with scares . It doesn’t make any sense, except if cnn wants to imply that in African countries doctors are operating without the patients consent and to make that assumption is limit racist. They were promising athlete because of their biology , and to the point that it is not fair for other women. And people have to stop feeling offended every time a rule is being applied.
4ºVery easy solution: if a person has testicles (and thus one would have to conclude a Y chromosome) then he should compete as a man, because the testosterone and what it does for muscle growth and athleticism is why the genders compete separately to begin with.
The alternative is to completely do away with mens and womens sport, and simply have all compete in a discipline by discipline basis.
As a result in many sports women will by and large flunk out in the qualifying rounds, while in other sports, like some of the gymnastics men will flunk out.
Can’t organize competitions around social constructs such as “gender spectrum”…
5ºDemocrats are discriminating against people as we speak because of the way they were born. So what’s the big deal here? Oh wait they are black. If they were white CNN wouldn’t be doing this story. Democrats are telling young children in school they should be ashamed because they were born white. But didn’t I just watch the democrats elect a WHITE man for president, and a WHITE women as Speaker of the House and a WHITE man as leader of the senate? Not to mention Drooling over a WHITE privileged Billionaire because he rode in his rocket for ten minutes in space. I never hear them tell any of these rich white people they should be ashamed of being white. Hmmmm
6ºA difficult first question to ask is if we ever needed separate men's and women's events. Why can't women compete in an 'open' event? A good first answer might be that we think girls playing sport is important and women only events are something for them to aspire to - so we do. This is a problem where any chosen solution will have some cost/s. The most important thing to me is that we need to maintain respect for all people and guarantee that all kids are able to play sport - ideally with kids of the same ability level.
7ºSome sports you don’t red natural ability you train your mind and body to become quite good but of course natural ability might make you great Tony Adams Messi are probably great examples of this. However I believe that Athletics in running is 99 percent genetic the fastest runner at 11 in my school was still the fastest runner at 16. So my point is that every althete has something different than the average human being by training I can get faster but don’t have the natural speed. So be it extrao lung capacity more red blood cells people born at altitude bigger wingspans they are all unique and sure they the men have higher levels of testosterone. Most people are two young to remember the great Cuban althele l
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