BigFatCoward

Very surprised to wake up to a celtics defeat where the heat were without Butler.

Labour pledge to re nationalise 'most' railways within first term. I don't see how they could do worse.

Whether they are currently is irrelevant, you make rules now before there are issues so people know where they stand. Emily Bridges would be one example though. Her performance trajectory very much would have had her winning Olympic medals this cycle. She was an outstanding cyclist pre transition and her performance held up very well post transition. You can't begin to have the conversations when someone has dictated years of their lives to competing at the highest level then pull the rung from under them. That would be extremely unfair on the athletes.

Do you? There is video' you can see that technically the women better' phycically tjey arent in the same league. Do you think women that were so dedicated that they are the best in the world voluntary rolled over and let a bunch if 15 year old beat them? You are just as guilty of making assumptions to support your argument here as I am. You should refrain from that label, because it would be bullshit. There are very legitimate scientific arguments as to why trans women should not compete with cis women if fairness is the most important factor. Far far far more science says this than the opposite. You might say that science is biased based on who is carrying it out and that's a fair position in some cases, but not all. And certainly not enough to discredit the wealth I'd data that's out there. You might not agree with them, and if you value inclusively more than fairness that's fine, but the kneejerk leap to 'trans phobia' every time someone makes them is so utterly boring.

That's 2 separate issues. Yes, they are. On a whole other planet of better. Ask the most dominant female athlete of all time (Serena). Whether we need to legislate is a whole other issue.

A bunch of children beat the best female adult team in the world, comprehensively. And they weren't even remotely the best under 15 male team in the world. I doubt they were in the top 500, maybe not even in the top 5000. It highlights the insane difference between men and women in certain sports.

You know you might be the new spurs?

We beat spurs 4-0 with 27% possession.

Soft southern shite.

I think we can all agree that the ban on trans women competing in women's World chess champs is utter horseshit though.

As an elite athletes I'd say she is eminently qualified to characterise the negative impact on her physical abilities post transition. Even if it happened well after she retired.

There's no advantage so nobody is saying they shouldn't compete against men. There's a decided disadvantage so not sure how competitive they could ever be. The US womans football team got absolutely annihilated by a bunch of schoolboys (under 15s) and that was American schoolboys.

Because I want sports to be fair. Steroids make it unfair. And I believe trans athletes competing against cis women is also (though not in the same stratosphere of) unfair.

And there are rules against them also, its not one or the other. Its not like people are giving juice heads a pass. To be fair if we got rid of all steroid cheats, there would be almost no professional sports.

If he stayed fit, he'd score 30 goals in that team and win you the league.