Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard poised to become first transgender Olympian -- report

[Ricter]

A political party that claims to worship at the alter of science and then denies junior high biology can be expected to be taken about as seriously as the religion of peace that beheads anyone who disagrees. The damage here is minor as both political movements and religious zealots don't burden themselves with addressing the shear lunacy of their actions.
The real damage comes to women's sports in what will become an evermore uneven field which will end up hurting more athletes than it helps. While slightly more damaging than politics this too pales in comparison to the real damage being done as this "transition" is introduced to younger and younger kids. We will see more lives destroyed by this as time goes on. Political wokeness will find some new lunacy to latch onto and these kids will have a lifetime of untreated mental illness ahead of them.

Cap'n, this kind of objection is as old as humanity. It's what the older folks always say, century after century.

No one can deny the physical structure (of the body), it is the socialization, the roles and expected behaviors, that can and do change. Why do we have so many "women's sports"? The mile is the mile, everyone can run it and record their time. Do we really need two different charts to show the top 100 times?

 

[kmgilroy89]

Here's a major difference between men's and women's tennis at the pro level: the best women in the world can and do hire no name coaches of equal skill level to compete against. Men can only really compete against the same level of talent on the tour. In college they can practice against their teammates, but on the tour it's very different. However, you'll find that the best women's sports teams do practice against men. Such is the case for Geno Auriemma's basketball team. The practice squad was good high school players who weren't good enough to play scholarship basketball. He said that they often give the women a hard time.

 

[Overnight]

They should have given this Laurel Hubbard person the chair test. If he failed it, he's a guy and should not be allowed to compete in the women's class.

Hehe.

 

[luisHK]

I'm reminded of that famous "battle of the sexes" tennis match between Billie Jean King and... forgot his name. She won.

Didn t work well for the William sisters, I didn t read the link below as already read the stories years ago, but their oponent was said to be drinking and/or smoking between games during the match

https://www.marca.com/en/more-sports/2017/06/27/595296da468aeb99218b464c.html

 

[luisHK]

Ok, read the link now, and the one below has more details. The dude drank alcohol AND smoked cigarettes between games on his way to anihilate the Williams sisters.
It s ridiculous to pretend girls have the same physical abilities than men, long distance swimming being one of the few (the only?) Sports where women perform as well or better than men from memory

https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...lliams-nicole-gibbs-australian-open/96876832/

 

[Ricter]

Ok, read the link now, and the one below has more details. The dude drank alcohol AND smoked cigarettes between games on his way to anihilate the Williams sisters.
It s ridiculous to pretend girls have the same physical abilities than men, long distance swimming being one of the few (the only?) Sports where women perform as well or better than men from memory

https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...lliams-nicole-gibbs-australian-open/96876832/

Numerical rankings are a good reason we no longer need to separate men and women in (many) sports.

 

[Cuddles]

You can laugh it off as an insignificant culture war issue, but they turn out the base and make moderates think, maybe the liberal party is going too far. I actually think CNN/MSNBC and the like are playing right into the GOP's hands by giving them so much attention on the trans sports bills they're passing. If the Dems try to appease their woke community on shit like this instead of talking about kitchen table issues they will turnoff middle America and lose the House again.

Of course we'll laugh it off. What, you'll choose to align yourself with fascists who are actively engaged in disenfranchising democrats and diluting the republic because you'd taken the bait and would rather engage in Judeo-Christian heteronormative cultural revisionism (culture war) of an ancient Greek event that likely saw more butt sex than a San Francisco gay pride convention?

 

[kmgilroy89]

Of course we'll laugh it off. What, you'll choose to align yourself with fascists who are actively engaged in disenfranchising democrats and diluting the republic because you'd taken the bait and would rather engage in Judeo-Christian heteronormative cultural revisionism (culture war) of an ancient Greek event that likely saw more butt sex than a San Francisco gay pride convention?

Laugh it off and lose power. It's not going to determine my vote. 11 House Democrats won by a margin of less than a 3% margin. The party that holds the presidency typically loses seats in the midterms. Those are the Democrats who need to be worried about how their constituents react to this.

 

[Cuddles]

Laugh it off and lose power. It's not going to determine my vote. 11 House Democrats won by a margin of less than a 3% margin. The party that holds the presidency typically loses seats in the midterms. Those are the Democrats who need to be worried about how their constituents react to this.

the dems are going to get slaughtered because they're a bunch of pussies being held hostage by a GOP plant (Manchin) and are delivering fuck all in terms of policies. Simple as that.

 

[Ricter]

the dems are going to get slaughtered because they're a bunch of pussies being held hostage by a GOP plant (Manchin) and are delivering fuck all in terms of policies. Simple as that.

The reasons are still gerrymandering, and the design flaw of the Senate, imo.