It really is up to the women. It shouldn’t be and it’s asking them to give up a lot but it is the only way now.
Pool? The author refers to a geriatric pool player as an athlete?
How is a female disadvantaged in pool or darts?
I seriously don’t get it.
One might question why men and women are even segregated at all in a competitive event as cerebral as POOL.
They could have male, female, and open categories. God bless Lynne.
Fruitcake stands there smirking, like he actually won something.
Too bad there are so few women like her.
More often than not women are their own worst enemy. They are too easily manipulated by emotions.
For Chris “Harriet” Haynes to win by forfeit must be like kissing his brother.
Some might wonder why there is men's billiards and women's billiards. Well men typically do have advantages in this game over women. For starters, they tend to have more powerful breaks, which gives them a better position right from the first shot. Men tend to be a taller, giving them superior reach across the table (judging from the picture of this man that the woman refused to play, he seems pretty tall).
I'm sure there are other advantages.
Point is, while there is nothing wrong with friends playing together of both genders - and I've been beaten by women often at pool - when it comes to competition, it should definitely be men only or ladies only.
In the words of the famous and heroic spy Austin Powers:”She’s a MAN BABY!”
It really is a shame that all of the females who faced this fake woman in the preliminaries hadn’t done the same ...
Walk away is how women take back their sports. Let the males play with themselves.
It really isn't either conservative or politically correct, it's common sense.
fake prize (win by default) for a fake woman- pathetic-
Pretty bad when it becomes BRAVE and BOLD to stand up against this nonsense.
Yes. Brava to this woman. And if that other person had an iota of class they would not have accepted a trophy on a forfeit.
Not an athlete, but my daughter was. She was no superstar, but she started for her HS Varisty Basketball team. Just one trans student on that team, and I’m pretty sure she would have warmed the bench. 100% sure if there were 2 trans.
ALL WOMAN ATHLETES BOYCOTT NOW BOYCOTT UNTIL THIS ENDS
Even now, I'd send it back to the league.
If all women did this, it would put an end to it right now.