She’s a great pool player, but I’d have watched her even if she wasn’t.
Posted on 04/08/2025 10:54:04 AM PDT by algore
This is what the endgame of trans ideology looks like: an all-male final of a women’s pool championship.
Last night, the UK’s Ultimate Pool Women’s Pro Series Event 2 in Wigan had its final match. This women’s pool event wouldn’t ordinarily have grabbed the headlines, except for one curious detail: this year, there were no women in the final.
It was played between two transgender-identified men – Harriet Haynes and Lucy Smith.
They had defeated four female opponents each before making it to the final, which Haynes ultimately won. Broadcaster Piers Morgan took to X to call the incident ‘preposterous’ and ‘cheating bullshit’.
Meanwhile, former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies described it as ‘bloody ridiculous and grossly wrong in every way’.
To make matters worse, Haynes already has multiple women’s championship titles under his (sizeable) belt. In 2023, he prevailed in the Women’s Champion of Champions final in Prestatyn, Wales, not because he outperformed the other players, but because his opponent refused to compete against him.
Lynne Pinches, an actual woman, forfeited her shot at the national title. She said that ‘whenever you play a transgender player, even if you win, it doesn’t make any difference because, in your heart, you know it’s unfair’. Haynes won the match by default.
While it’s true that, in pool, the difference between men and women might not be as pronounced as in other, more physically demanding sports, men do still have some biological advantages.
These differences – though hotly disputed by delusional trans activists – are obvious to anyone with eyes. The chief issue being that anyone who has gone through male puberty will have, on average, a much wider wingspan and be much taller than someone who hasn’t.
As Pinches has explained, ‘they have a longer reach, and a lot of them are taller than us’, making it easier for men to make shots with greater power and speed.
Yes, they were a few years ago with trying to make everyone a winner and letting girls win beauty contests that should not have been in them. Cutting out swimsuit competitions and what not.
I’m hoping that very soon, all women athletes will collectively refuse to compete against men. Nothing less is going to stop this BS.
On average, males are far better than females at pool, but it has nothing to do with height - many of the world’s greatest players are very small Filipinos and Asians.
The skills required for pool have much in common with those required for golf, archery and gun marksmanship - all dominated by males - but requiring no height advantage.
It’s not a scientific proof, but among the tens of thousands of APA league 8ball and 9ball players I’ve encountered over the last 25 years, ranked 2-7 and 1-9, respectively, I could count the female 7s and 9s on one hand.
And in the pro tournaments - which are open to women - women never make it very far, and the men who dominate are not particularly tall.
Soon as one of them leaned across the table to make a shot, they should have been disqualified for extra balls on the table.
She’s a great pool player, but I’d have watched her even if she wasn’t.
An example of world class talent, Bruce Jenner is one of the most famous men’s champion of the Olympics, and he also was Glamour’s ‘Woman Of the Year’ in 2015, his talents know no boundaries.
There was a beer commercial anticipating this 30 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5C3c2xw4cQ
How Bud Light has fallen.
It is truly embarrassing to consider all the “strong woman” bragging we’ve been forced to listen to for decades and women can’t handle this simple problem. Women ARE the game. This is a no brainer.
A complete mockery of womanhood.
WHERE are the feminists???????
This whole thing is appalling.
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