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You can still juice which is basically the same as having nuts.
In other words, castrated trans women should be told they if they want to compete in sports that it has to be against born males, whether they like it or not.
A 43-year-old "woman" is dominating a sport with an erstwhile peak performance age somewhere in the mid-20s, and nobody at the IOC thinks maybe there's something a little off about this?
A 43-year-old "woman" is dominating a sport with an erstwhile peak performance age somewhere in the mid-20s, and nobody at the IOC thinks maybe there's something a little off about this?
Perhaps they see every other law and marketing institution from the raising and education of the children for next current generation forward will treat the person as a woman when there is no ball or game being played and there is nothing sacrosanct about sport
Counting the 2016 Olympic games and going back four games, only 2% of female weightlifters who won medals were in the 32-39 age bracket.
That this individual is considered to have a very real shot at being a medalist, at the age of 43, says it all.
That’s because a 43-year-old biological man will still be significantly stronger than a woman in her 20s. In fact, I’d bet that a 60-year-old male, in good health, will still be stronger than a woman in her 20s, at least in upper body strength. That’s why my dad, may he RIP, was still able to open the pickle jars that I, as a 30-year-old woman in peak strength (I was into tennis at the time) could not.
Laurel Hubbard was born a man and was into weightlifting without much success. However, in her 30s she transitioned to being a woman and now at 41 is dominating women's weightlifting competitions. She just won 2 Golds and a Silver medal in her 3 events including beating out the strongest woman from the most recent commonwealth games.
An organization called "Speak up for women" is arguing that people born as men should not be allowed to compete as women, while others are saying that speak up for women is being discriminatory and hurtful.
Should Laurel Hubbard be allowed to compete in the Olympics with the women?
I don't see this so much as a trans issue, but rather it is about the special nature of competitive athletics. We don't allow artificial enhancement of performance.
My objection is to allowing some athletes to take any kind of drug that modifies capabilities and performance, whether performance-enhancing or decreasing, while disallowing other athletes from taking those same drugs.
There is already a place for people with medical problems to compete, it's called "The Special Olympics". It has many categories, and a place for people needing to take hormone therapy can be made so that trans people won't have to constantly undergo invasive or demeaning testing. I'm not joking.
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