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Time has come to surrender "woman" to applicable transgender athletes (sarcasm) - C C - Jun 21, 2021
New Zealand weightlifter to become first transgender athlete at Olympic Games
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/21/australia/laurel-hubbard-olympics-transgender-intl-hnk-spt/index.html
EXCERPTS: . . . And in May, after Hubbard successfully qualified, Belgian weightlifter Anna Vanbellinghen told an Olympics news website the situation was "unfair" and "like a bad joke." [...] Weightlifting has been a focus in an ongoing heated debate over transgender athletes competing in women's sports. Dozens of US states are considering legislation that would prevent transgender women and girls from participating in women's categories, with several that have already enacted sports bans this year... (MORE - details)
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Cynical Sindee: Since trans-women are effectively making born females obsolete in sports, as well as potentially demoting the latter's rights to a secondary status, the obvious answer is to simply hand "women's sports" entirely over to trans-women. And create a third contestant category called either "gynatal (born female) sports" or WBM sports (womyn-born-womyn).
In essence, abandon the label "woman" for a new term, since we're apparently never going to exclusively win the old one back, or would be called haters if we ever did.
As remarked above, there are states trying to restrict or ban trans-athletes, but (hah) that won't hold up for long. (And is irrelevant to the global sports stage or rest of the world.)
Etymologically, "woman" is descended from Old English stuff that ironically meant "woman-man". So it's actually more fitting for these new inheritors of the word, anyway. Whose ranks will only swell as disenchanted males of the Woke Millennium discover this backdoor path to regaining lost power.
Turning "gynatal" from adjective to noun might seem like a weird thing to be called in the future, but hopefully someone will concoct a better neologism from combining forms. WBM as either acronym or the long expression sure as heck ain't gonna' cut it, either.
RE: Time has come to surrender "woman" to applicable transgender athletes (sarcasm) - C C - Jun 21, 2021
It should be mentioned that many trans-women athletes would rather compete against men, but the establishment won't let them. The latter might be due to ideology, but it could be the result of fear or practicality, too.
As Naaman Gilwater once said: "No movement devours furiously until lawyers discover they can sell its #### in court."
RE: Time has come to surrender "woman" to applicable transgender athletes (sarcasm) - Syne - Jun 21, 2021
Anyone the left purports to help or protect is only being used to further their agendas. But considering the left's fondness for defending Islam, it should really be no surprise that they really don't care about women. I mean, how many times can people call the most misogynistic religion on the planet the "religion of peace" before we simply accept that their motives are just that well aligned?
RE: Time has come to surrender "woman" to applicable transgender athletes (sarcasm) - billvon - Jun 21, 2021
(Jun 21, 2021 07:27 PM)C C Wrote: Since trans-women are effectively making born females obsolete in sports, as well as potentially demoting the latter's rights to a secondary status, the obvious answer is to simply hand "women's sports" entirely over to trans-women.
How about something much simpler? Do away with gender-based divisions in professional and Olympic sports. We've already done it for race-based sports. Let everyone compete.
RE: Time has come to surrender "woman" to applicable transgender athletes (sarcasm) - Syne - Jun 21, 2021
(Jun 21, 2021 11:02 PM)billvon Wrote: How about something much simpler? Do away with gender-based divisions in professional and Olympic sports. We've already done it for race-based sports. Let everyone compete.
What's a "race-based sport"? You mean segregation, where whites and blacks were kept apart for no reason related to any sport?
And what part of women not being able to compete against men, as a biological fact, do you not understand? The Williams sisters took on one man, ranked 203rd in men's tennis, one after the other, and both readily lost.