Posted on 04/08/2018 3:56:17 PM PDT by PROCON
In 1967, a Boston Marathon official nearly dragged a woman off the course after she managed to enter the men's-only race. Five decades later, race officials aren't as concerned about gender boundaries: They're now publicly acknowledging that transgender runners can compete using the gender they identify with.
"We take people at their word. We register people as they specify themselves to be," said Tom Grilk, chief of the Boston Athletic Association, the group behind the race. "Members of the LGBT community have had a lot to deal with over the years, and we'd rather not add to that burden."
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Womens’ sports are now officially dead.
Electing President Trump was a step in the right direction, but we're a long way from healed.
Good. All dickchoppers can now benefit from this insanity.
Good point. Will this be enough for real women athletes to take some form of grass root action that will send a message to the thunderheads who organize and run the Boston Marathon? The clock is ticking.
A-Rod ran like a girl for many years in the MLB and no one complained about that.
I assume any man can just show up run and win while claiming to be a woman, lol.
This is very unfair. Like the HS gender dysphoric wrestler who has won championships two years in a row.
Men are built stronger than women. It’s in their DNA, something they can’t change as they pretend they are a woman.
I suggest the women boycott the marathon.
ABSOLUTELY!!!!
Beam me up !!!!!
it’s a mad, mad world. this guy can lift weights way above the women in the comp:
8 Apr: news.com.au: Games’ ticking time bomb explodes as rival nation protests transgender weightlifter’s presence
THE Commonwealth Games’ most controversial issue has erupted as Samoan coaches protest the presence of a transgender weightlifter.
by Tyson Otto
Games officials have repeatedly declared their support for Hubbard’s inclusion in the event, despite the 40-year-old having previously competed internationally on the men’s weightlifting circuit under the name Gavin Hubbard...
However, she has been the target of widespread protests and uproar from rival weightlifting federations which have publicly called on officials to ban her from competing...
Her expected success and potential to inspire has led to a push in New Zealand for Hubbard to be given the honour of carrying the Kiwi flag and lead the team into the stadium during the Games’ closing ceremony...
http://www.news.com.au/sport/commonwealth-games/games-ticking-time-bomb-explodes-as-rival-nation-protests-transgender-weightlifters-presence/news-story/4b2a53fbd236bc63ef1e45d91de5acd6
Good point. They federally mandated equal funding for women's athletics, then turned around and allowed men to compete as "women." WTF?
I thought the same thing. Let the freaks have at it!!!
To many out there are to big of pussies to do it though
Liberals ruin everything they touch.
That photo is supposed to remain Top Secret!
“Hail Hail East Germany
Land of vine and grape
Land where you’ll regret
Any try to escape
No matter if you take a running jump,
or tunnel under the wall
Forget it, the guards will kill you—
if the electrified fence doesn’t first”
Ten overtly male men should enter as women, win the top ten women’s spots and dare anyone to say a word.
Lop it off, get a new car?
I have no idea. If not, one wonders what would be "enough."
Any man who says, “I feel like I’m a woman,” can benefit, if you call acting nuts in public a “benefit.”
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