Posted on 05/13/2019 10:21:30 AM PDT by Kaslin
This is a subject that’s been coming up more and more lately, not that you’ll see much of it on cable news. It’s the question of whether or not competitive female sports organizations, both scholastic and otherwise, should allow “transgender women” (who were born male) to compete against natural, biological women. Most recently we looked at a transgender powerlifter who broke four world records at a single competition but later had those titles rejected because he was determined to be a male by the commission overseeing the sport.
So are Americans paying attention to this debate? And if so, how do they feel about it? Scott Rasmussen tackled the question recently and the results are pretty clear. A majority of voters find such participation to be unfair to women and only a small percentage support the practice.
Twenty-three percent (23%) of voters believe a person born as a male but identifying as a female should be allowed to compete in women’s competitive sports events. A ScottRasmussen.com national survey found that 56% disagree and 21% are not sure.
Voters under 35 are evenly divided on the question. Older voters do not believe such athletes should be allowed to compete in women’s events (see crosstab results). Thirty-two percent (32%) of Democrats believe such athletes should be allowed to compete. That view is shared by 22% of Independent voters and 12% of Republicans…
Thirty-two percent (32%) of voters have followed recent news stories concerning transgender athletes at least somewhat closely. That includes 10% who have followed the stories Very Closely.
The survey also dug a bit deeper to learn why people are opposed. Strong majorities supported three different conclusions about allowing biological males to compete against women. First, male athletes tend to be “stronger and more athletic” than comparable females. Second, allowing them to compete is unfair to the actual women. And finally, this practice will eventually lead to men dominating women’s sports. All of that seemed rather obvious to me, but it’s worthwhile to know where the majority of voters are coming down on the issue.
The party line breakdown is kind of stunning also. For any Democrats and liberals thinking of hitching their wagon to this issue, they should be aware that less than one-third of Democrats support this idea. Those numbers plummet further among independents and Republicans.
Too many supporters of transgender athletes competing in women’s sports are trying to turn this into an LGBT issue and that’s false. This is strictly a “T-issue.” Nobody is complaining about gay or lesbian athletes competing. Thankfully, for a significant majority of the country, nobody particularly cares who you are sleeping with. This is a question that revolves around the reason that we have separate competitions for men and women in the first place. We do it because women would be locked out of the top levels of most sports if we didn’t. And we don’t define the two sexes for these purposes based on how you feel or how you “identify.” We define the categories based on your basic physiology.
It’s time for all of the major women’s sports leagues to wake up and deal with this situation. Otherwise, they’re going to wind up woking themselves out of existence.
23% of Americans are insane.......................
Who cares? If it were not discussed, perhaps it would not become reality.
Only 23%? Sounds very low to me.
May as well disband women’s sports if men are going to compete.
They shouldn’t call it “Women’s Sports”... they should call it
“XX Sports”... changing the word “sports” to whatever the particular sport is.
Blood tests required for all entrants:
XX in
XY out
Period.
End of story.
Go cry in a college safe-space room.
Go cut off your d*ck and feed it to your cat.
Go do whatever you want, but you aren’t allowed to compete unless you are genetically XX.
Period.
End of story.
I believe it will result in the end of separate men’s and women’s sports. After all, there’s no difference, is there? You go, girl! /s
How do liberal mad dog feminazis feel about transgenders (guys) sweeping women’s sports titles? Confused.
They can have their competition - set their own records. They should not compete against someone not of their own biologic form as opposed to supposed form.
Joe Biden: 'Generally with my hands.'
21% aren’t sure....................
It’s a bad idea. It promotes imaginary thinking. Makes people discount, distrust and dismiss what they see in front of them. It discourages a lot of real girls from competing.
It encouraged real girls to accept a Second Class status.
Sports can be a great way to focus youthful energy into something beneficial, something that teaches you how to get along with people. How to win and lose with grace.
I’m not even that much into sports for myself, but I can see the good things it has to offer children.
I think most real Americans probably feel that this is a load.
It’s a different way for a loser to start winning a little. How many unnatural men (that were women) are competing in men’s sports?
” For their women exchanged their natural function for an unnatural and abnormal one,
And the men also turned from natural relations with women and were set ablaze (burning out, consumed) with lust for one another—men committing shameful acts with men and suffering in their own bodies and personalities the inevitable consequences and penalty of their wrong-doing and going astray, which was [their] fitting retribution.”
(New Testament, Romans 1:26,27)
I think even the liberals are seeing the stupidity in this.
Not the hard-core, really brain damaged ones... just the ones who think how nice things would be when the government makes things ‘fair’
Its sexual abuse
Its the erasure of womanhood
Its insanity
It all began with an overzealous Title IX.
It’s up to the real female athletes to get together and stop this nonsense and I hope they do.
My opinion.
Athletes should only be able to compete in the male/female class that matches their chromosomes (XX, XY).
“Go cut off your d*ck and feed it to your cat.”
That would make a pretty good tag-line for somebody.
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