Governor of Maine takes him on
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Good on Janet Mills. We need a lot more like her.
Twenty years ago the IOC completed a study of transgendered persons in sports and concluded that transgender women should compete as women.
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For better fairness, athletes should be grouped by age, weight, height, and percentage of body fat. Forget about gender, even within the same gender, there will be vast biological differences between one age X and the other age 2X; ditto height, weight, and percentage of body fat.
Group athletes whose ages, heights, weights, and percentages of body fat are all within a small percentage of each other and that will ensure fairness in the face of biological variances. The smaller the percentage, the fairer the competition!
To prevent the smarter athletes from outsmarting the dumber athletes, maybe also separate them by IQ, like only allow those whose IQs are within a small percentage of each other to compete as a group (in addition to having their ages, heights, weights, and body fat percentages all within a small percentage of each others', of course). That should ensure maximum fairness.
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@Axtremus said in Governor of Maine takes him on:
For better fairness, athletes should be grouped by age, weight, height, and percentage of body fat. Forget about gender, even within the same gender, there will be vast biological differences between one age X and the other age 2X; ditto height, weight, and percentage of body fat.
Group athletes whose ages, heights, weights, and percentages of body fat are all within a small percentage of each other and that will ensure fairness in the face of biological variances. The smaller the percentage, the fairer the competition!
To prevent the smarter athletes from outsmarting the dumber athletes, maybe also separate them by IQ, like only allow those whose IQs are within a small percentage of each other to compete as a group (in addition to having their ages, heights, weights, and body fat percentages all within a small percentage of each others', of course). That should ensure maximum fairness.
ahahahaaaaa!
Yeah, and the maximum height allowed on a basketball team should be 6'0" ...
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The mistake too many people make is thinking that a male to female transgendered person was born male to begin with (and vice versa for female to male). This is the fallacy that causes much confusion. A person who transitions does not do so to take on a new gender. They are the same gender after transitioning as they've always been, only now their outward appearance matches their inner existence.
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@Jodi said in Governor of Maine takes him on:
This:
“But do not be misled: this is not just about who can compete on the athletic field, this is about whether a President can force compliance with his will, without regard for the rule of law that governs our nation. I believe he cannot.”
That caught my eye, too.
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Wow.
You're born biologically the sex male you compete with other biological males.
I may identify as a miniature dachshund but I won't ever be allowed in Crufts.
And we're not adding weights like we do in horse racing.And I also dictate that like the original Olympics competitors in sports wear no clothes. That'll reduce the entrants to the skiing and skating. And pole vault.
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@AndyD said in Governor of Maine takes him on:
I may identify as a miniature dachshund
That statement is mean. It harkens back to the days when it was argued that gay marriage would lead to people wanting to marry their pets. It was a pathetic defense mechanism.
There is plenty of biological underpinnings to transgender. There is Swyer syndrome where the body has typically male chromosomes, but female genitalia. There is the fact that one in 4,500 infants (it may even be more prevalent than that according to some) are born with ambiguous genitalia. These infants are "assigned" a gender that may or may not suit them.
Someday people will come to accept that gender is not black and white, that we aren't born to fit close minded, pre-conceived notions about being a perfect world where only male and female exist.
As I posted above, I think the IOC did a pretty good job at finding a standard of measure. They acknowledge that hormonal therapy alters muscle mass in male to female transitions and wrote their rules accordingly. It seems to me they used science as a measure.
(I just want to add a footnote to mention that some of the children born with ambiguous genitalia are subjected to forced and coercive medical interventions. Let that sink in.)
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Theres plenty to read about it over here https://care.org.uk/news/2023/06/children-in-schools-allowed-to-identify-as-animals
Like many I've read about the problems modern sport faces. A Canadian man who wins women weightlifting.
"Level playing field" & "completely unfair" versus "discrimination" & "emotional harm".Sport is about competing bodies. Biological.
Gender, well I don't see a problem of a one legged person contending a chess final with... whatever the identification
