AP: Olympics OK's Transsexual's particpation

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[Paul Atreides]

Poor Hillary was born too late. After being turned down by the Marines, she could have at least benefitted from this development.

[Hebrews 11:6]

They already have Special Olympics, why not Transsexual Olympics? Surely it would play to huge audiences of dozens.

[zlala]

The trend is to have an ineligibility period

The trend? And whos trend is this? Where do they get this stuff?

[tbird5]

Has the world gone insane!!

[Possenti]

(BARF!)

[Skwidd]

The Trassexual Olympics? Sounds like really bad porn.

[Paul Atreides]

Yep.

[Paul Atreides]

Or, a new show of Bravo's spring lineup.

[concerned about politics]

"Mutant Sports" comming to a TV near you.

[concerned about politics]

The Trassexual Olympics? Sounds like really bad porn.

They'll have a lot of nude wrestling.

[CounterCounterCulture]

"We will have no discrimination,"

"The trend is to have an ineligibility period,"

Sounds like some discrimination is still in play. What not eligibility immediately after the addadictomy (or its converse) op?

[Cicero]

I wonder if they've really thought this through. There's no particular advantage for a woman to have herself surgically transformed into a pretend man, but men who have themselves surgically transformed into women will have a huge advantage in many sports.

So, what will the women say when a bunch of men put on skirts and clean up all the tennis prizes or swimming prizes? No more women winners. I shouldn't think that would go over big with the feminists.

That's why the decision as to whether an athlete is a man or a woman has normally been genetic. Does the athlete in question have two X chromosomes, or an X and a Y?

And don't think that people who already will do just about anything to win an Olympic gold medal won't start crowding into the operating rooms, if this is really allowed to go forward.

[waterstraat]

However, doctors say, testosterone levels and muscle mass drop after hormone therapy and sex-change surgery.

I certainly dont see any advantage that male to female transexuals would have - after male to females lose their testosterone, their fat and muscles change dratically, and they lose all their upper body strength. The real advantage anyone has in the olympics are regular males or females who take steroids to build muscle mass.

I know a couple of transexuals, and they did not do what they did for the fun of it, if you knew what physical pain they went thru from both electrolysis and the slicing and dicing up of their genitals, you wouldnt make fun of them.

I think there are more than enough truely evil people in this world for us to direct our hate and discrimination towards instead.

[CindyDawg]

Sounds like some discrimination is still in play

Women and men need to compete in everything together then. Guys with or without their parts are going to have an advantage in strength.

[Skwidd]

They'll have a lot of nude wrestling.

Sometimes you can think of nothing to say but, "Isn't that awful?" Your comment evoked such a moment. Thank you for ruining my childhood, you evil, evil person. =)

[Dante3]

I recall the times when we were outraged when the old Soviet Union had men disguised as women in athletic competitions.

This is crazy. Mutilated men in women's sports? Sex cannot be changed.

[jra]

Sorry, but having a sex-change is probably the STUPIDEST thing any human being could do.

What, God made a mistake?

Gimme a break.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Another-nail-in-the-coffin, I-can't-believe-I'm-reading-this BUMP.

What a strange news day.

[dagnabbit]

And the Gold Medal in the Testicle Toss goes to...