What a bunch of cow poop
Trans whatever, the new Emperor’s Clothes.
Posted on 07/23/2019 1:33:32 PM PDT by Red Badger
Existing gender categories in sport should perhaps be abandoned in favour of a more "nuanced" approach in the new transgender era, University of Otago researchers say.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) guidelines that allow male-to-female transgender athletes to compete in the women's category at the elite level has raised significant debate since being introduced in 2015. A recent case of New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard, a transwomen competing in the 2018 Commonwealth Games, has polarised opinions about the inclusion of transwomen in women's sport.
Bioethicist, Associate Professor Lynley Anderson, says that in discussing this topic we need to consider the principles of inclusion and fairness.
Associate Professor Anderson and Dr. Taryn Knox from the Dunedin Bioethics Centre, together with Otago physiologist Professor Alison Heather investigate the ethics and science around the IOC's decision in research published in the latest issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics.
They explain the recent IOC guidelines allow transwomen to compete in the women's division if (amongst other things) their testosterone is held below 10nmol/L.
Professor Heather says this is significantly higher than that of cis-women [whose sex and gender align as female].
"Science demonstrates that high adult levels of testosterone, as well as permanent testosterone effects on male physiology during in utero and early development, provides a performance advantage in sport and that much of this male physiology is not mitigated by the transition to a transwoman," she says.
Far from arguing that transwomen be excluded, the authors are in favour of a radical change to what they describe as "the outdated structure of the gender division currently used in elite sport".
They consider possible solutions in their research however, some options value inclusion more than fairness and vice versa. The potential solutions include excluding transwomen from competing in the women's division, creating a third division for transwomen and intersex women and calculating a handicap for transwomen based on their testosterone levels—similar to that used in golf.
Their preferred option is an extension of this with a proposed algorithm that could account for a range of parameters, both physical and social, including pyshiological parameters, gender identity and could include socioeconomic status.
Associate Professor Anderson says it is important to both extend and celebrate diversity while maintaining fairness for cis-women in sport.
"To be simultaneously inclusive and fair at the elite level some innovative thinking is required, rather than attempting to shoehorn people into either 'male' or 'female'.
"Perhaps the male/female binary should be reconsidered in favour of something more nuanced and useful?," she questions.
Well, evidently the real gals are all on board with it.
Fine with me. Knock yourselves out.
Yeah, “nuanced”. When you don’t want to say “dishonest”.
calculating a handicap for transwomen based on their testosterone levels—similar to that used in golf. <<<<<
GOLF???????..When..Where?
Will get worse because few people will say there are two sexes, and you can’t go from one to another.
What a bunch of cow poop
Trans whatever, the new Emperor’s Clothes.
SICK People out there
Non binary athletics will help put women back where they belong, in the kitchen. Suppose there is that covert intention?
Proposed by let guess a Woman ?
How did this creep into the equation? I guess socialist progressives just cannot keep their real agendas under wraps.
The answer to this self-made “problem” is to simply allow all people to compete for any given event. However the women will not like this solution. :-)
If taking testosterone is considered using performance-enhancing drugs for MALE athletes, how is it not considered the same for FEMALES?
How about dividing competitions by male, female, and other, based strictly on biology for the first two and allowing political correctness for the Freak category? It’s okay because no one’s gonna watch it anuway.
Women voted for this garbage.
They should have to live with this garbage.
Maybe, for once, women will have to live with the consequences of their votes.
I hope no biological woman ever wins an Olympic event again.
Thinking I could displace a female in Archery.
*snark*
How do I really, really, really feel? I can point fingers and say that IMO women seemed to be more accepting of alternative sexuality. IMO (In My Observation) women have been battling men for generations. IMO women have allowed the snowballing of (binary?) these situations. IMO women aren’t generally as sports oriented as men, and it seems that trannies may retain a male attitude to compete and as being observed, are doing quite well in women’s sports.
Are women comfortable with these situations and this trans domination on the athletic field and bathrooms? Are they PO’d enough to initiate a remedy or will they continue to enjoy being trampled underfoot.
Those are my observations,
Just wait, Miss America contest will be full of trannies.............
Will anyone care? I know that I don't give a damn what anyone playing children's games do. I don't care what 'sport' it is.
You can tell by the language used in the article that this was researched and written by nothing more tan SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS, regardless of their so called degrees.
The only solution I can see here is 3 categories of competitors;
1: MEN’S COMPETITION.
2: WOMEN’S COMPETITION.
3: PERVERT’S and FREAKS COMPETITION.
I think that about covers it.
“Existing gender categories in sport should perhaps be abandoned in favour of a more “nuanced” approach”
I’m all for that, actually:
1. XY chromosome males who profess to being male.
2. XX females who profess to being female.
3. Other
There. That’s more “nuanced”, right?
There’s XXX and XYY.................
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