Jun 21, 2021 07:27 PM
(This post was last modified: Jun 21, 2021 07:38 PM by C C.)
New Zealand weightlifter to become first transgender athlete at Olympic Games
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/21/australia...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.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/21/australia...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.
