It's only a matter of time before sports won't be able to be divided by gender. It may seem silly and would probably lower standards but I still think it is only a matter of time. So many young people are pan-gender or gender fluid that the current system will no longer work. How that will equate to the Premier League etc. who knows?
Something like the Olympics will be the first to change - probably on an event by event basis. Eventually a lot of sports will change. Sports will be vilified if they don't change.

Edited by ASCPFC (08 Mar 2019 7.14pm)

Red and Blue Army!

I've always been of the view that if a female was good enough to play in a male professional football team and it was purely on merit then cool.

Same with cricket or well anything in life.

My attitude completely changes when it isn't purely based upon merit.

I also don't like hearing how people need to change 'culturally' to accommodate someone's gender/sexuality/sensitivity or whatever else it is.

Merit....the protection and promotion of competence before all other things. Productive people are the lifeblood of all that is good in the world. They made your phones, cured the diseases, operate your surgery and everything else.

Newton, by all accounts, was an arseh0le.......but thank feck for Newton.....That arseh0le did god knows how much more for humanity that all the well meaning nice people rounded up together could probably ever do.

Edited by Stirlingsays (08 Mar 2019 8.17pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

This from today too

Sharron Davies fears for female athletes at Tokyo Olympic Games - [Link]

I think in time this will all thrash out in a way that makes sense, but it's definitely an issue that could upend female sports and endanger women in boxing and the like in the short term.

"International Olympic Committee (IOC) guidelines state that transgender women must suppress testosterone levels for at least 12 months before competition."

The problem with this is that studies show that, man or woman, if you take steroids at some point it conveys permanent advantages. The benefits are not something you can totally switch on and off. Though maybe they will look at the impact of this new ruling and take a results based approach.

So I do think bone structure wise and the like, there is no viable or ethical way of male to female sportspeople to complete against women in some sports.

The only grey area for me is with someone like Casta Semenya, who has a natural physical advantage due to her own biological makeup. It could of course be said that it's very unusual or uncommon, but find me a world class athlete who doesn't have aspects of their physiology that aren't. By virtue of their achievements they are naturally very unusual in one way or another. I'm not sure we should pick or choose which naturally occurring aspects in a person's body we snuff out or dial down with drugs.

Beyond such exceptions though, I share Davies concerns.

Watch this normal sensible woman being attacked for normal views by an absurdist media and a 'trans' activist.

The left in action.

[Link]

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

I agree that Semenya is an exceptional case. This is someone born as a woman or intersex...as ie she has no womb.... who is what we could describe as hormonally in a transitional state.

I can't see how it's fair to the 99.9 of women to let her compete with them though.....The only thing I can think of is for her to be banned and compensated.

Edited by Stirlingsays (19 Sep 2019 7.59pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Golf could be no sex now.