Forum search & shortcuts

Navratilova in trou...
 

[Closed] Navratilova in trouble for stating the obvious .

 kcr
Posts: 2949
Free Member
 

Bollocks has it.

"Gender identity and sport: is the playing field level?"
https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/39/10/695.info
Published in 2005, and you'll find lots more discussion if you have a look.

I don't see anyone being shut down, and no female athletes are "risking their careers" by raising the issue.


 
Posted : 21/02/2019 12:49 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

thisisnotaspoon
Trying to create an equivalence between racism and this discussion is fractally wrong.

Put another way, the top "white" and "black" male athletes would still be well in front of the top female (who happens to be black).

Maybe the place for transgender athletes is in the paralympics?

Even to my own ears that seems like a weird thing to say, and I'm not sure if its an acceptable answer at any level.

But look at it this way.

The roll in the genetic lottery has given someone an advantage (or disadvantage) which makes them unable to compete fairly in certain types of competition (e.g. Think of a wheelchair competitor who would rule in the marathon, and be destroyed in the 100m).

The para sports system is (as far as I understand it) set up to make decisions like that about groups and categories.

Why not here?


 
Posted : 21/02/2019 1:03 pm
Posts: 1
Free Member
 

I don’t see anyone being shut down

Specsavers is that way >>>>>>>


 
Posted : 21/02/2019 1:09 pm
 kcr
Posts: 2949
Free Member
 

Who's been shut down then?


 
Posted : 21/02/2019 1:21 pm
Page 3 / 3