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Transgender British athletes born as men set to make Olympic history by competing in the games [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | July 2, 2016 | Sanchez Manning and Ian Gallagher

Posted on 07/03/2016 6:15:43 AM PDT by C19fan

Two British athletes born male are on the verge of making history by competing in women’s events at next month’s Olympic Games, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

If selected, the unnamed pair will become the world’s first transgender Olympians at Rio.

But worryingly for British sports fans, they have revealed they are so fearful of being exposed and ridiculed under the Olympic spotlight, they would ‘probably drop back’ if they found themselves in a medal-winning position.

Their inclusion in Team GB will be hailed as a remarkable human rights victory – but it will also ignite controversy, with critics arguing that male-to-female competitors have an unfair biological advantage in terms of size, muscle mass and lung capacity.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: lgbt; trans
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To: Rufus Shinra

The “pendulum” is now swinging out of a skirt.


81 posted on 07/03/2016 10:40:25 AM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: Boardwalk

Are those faux Indian cheekbones?


82 posted on 07/03/2016 10:53:25 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (JFK Wanted To Send Man To Moon - Obama Wants To Send Man To Ladies Room)
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To: BRL

Self Identifying Race has been ongoing for 50 yrs already. On job apps select black or amer indian, or whatever quota the hire boss needs.

Let the judge prove your race. They cannot so won’t touch it. VP Dem is a fake indian. She is just smarter than the masses who follow PC rules.


83 posted on 07/03/2016 11:04:23 AM PDT by TheNext (Hillary Hurts Children & Women)
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To: NonValueAdded

No they aren’t. None of their medals were stripped since they won so many the IOC deemed it too complex to rewrite the record books and let their ahem performances stand. You can read all about it here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_in_East_Germany

I include these 2 pertinent points.

The total medal count of GDR participants at the Winter and Summer Olympics from 1956 to 1988 amounted to 203 gold, 192 silver and 177 bronze.

Based on the admission by Pollack, the United States Olympic Committee asked for the redistribution of gold medals won in the 1976 Summer Olympics.[24] Despite court rulings in Germany that substantiate claims of systematic doping by some East German swimmers, the IOC executive board announced that it has no intention of revising the Olympic record books. In rejecting the American petition on behalf of its women’s medley relay team in Montreal and a similar petition from the British Olympic Association on behalf of Sharron Davies, the IOC made it clear that it wanted to discourage any such appeals in the future


84 posted on 07/03/2016 11:48:28 AM PDT by xp38
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To: NonValueAdded

If anyone should be mad it’s Ben Johnson.


85 posted on 07/03/2016 11:50:08 AM PDT by xp38
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To: xp38

Great! Tranny sports. I can’t wait to see mentally ill males who cross-dress compete. This is just what our culture has been waiting for. If you think this is good bye to women’s sports, too bad.


86 posted on 07/03/2016 1:40:32 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: Boardwalk

It’s a compulsive obsession....which is why their problems generally don’t go away with ‘reassignment’ for more than the novelty of humoring and attention are in play.


87 posted on 07/03/2016 7:27:16 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: oscar_diggs

Neither of them.


88 posted on 07/04/2016 1:13:34 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: Fred Hayek

Trick question , the woman on the center box actually is a genuine and not a faux woman.


89 posted on 07/04/2016 10:16:37 PM PDT by oscar_diggs (First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.)
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To: oscar_diggs

Was joking. I work with some fundamentalist Baptists who believe that women should not or cannot be athletes.


90 posted on 07/05/2016 3:41:38 AM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: Fred Hayek

This OLYMPICS will go down in history ... men competing as women , no hotels or transportation , population near as destitute as Venezuela with sky high crime rates, tranny and underage hookers everywhere ... water events held in pools of raw sewage discharge... YIPEE! At this point the Olympics have lost all value for “bringing the world together through sports”. I think I’m going to remember the number hospitalized with infections after rowing through the bay more than anything else...


91 posted on 07/05/2016 6:34:05 AM PDT by oscar_diggs (First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.)
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