Trans people & sports

[The Grand Nudger]

The vast and powerful conspiracy of political correctness strikes again.

That, or, you're just a loon.  You know which one my money's on.

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Let's see, monozyotic male twins, both at the same physical level, both same sport athletes and one wants to trans. The number of available subjects must just be astounding. Simply falling out of the closet. 

Or, it just doesn't matter, except to people who will never compete against them. How many cis women athletes refuse to compete if a trans woman is entered in an event? They are the only people for whom it should matter and I don't see many/any up in arms.

http://www.out.com/sports/2015/7/16/ufc-...fallon-fox

Fallon Fox is the best example. A lot of MMA fighters are reluctant to fight her. Even the best feel like she's dangerous in the ring. Rousey isn't the only one, IIRC.

Missed this one.  She still gets fights.  She still loses fights.  As an example, this is probably one of the best that show a disapairty between perception and reality.  Fox is (and has always been) a smaller fighter.  She competes with athletes who have higher muscle mass.  She competes with athletes who have longer reach.  She competes with athletes who have higher or comparable levels of performance linked hormones and her personal response to "man bones stronk" was nothing short of hilarious. 

What she seems to have done wrong, like Laurel Hubbard, is win something in a big way every now and again. There were competitors that decided not to compete with Hubbard as well, reportedly. I know, she fucked that other girl up...but it is a fight, so...? The same can be applied to Hubbard. She lifted alot of weight. She's a weightlifter. Yeah, she beat her immediate competition, horribly...268kg for a 19 kg advantage over second place, in the 90+kg....however, the record in that class is 348 kg........so...she has a ways to go yet, lol.