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Poll: Do you agree with the IOC position on trans athletes?
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John V Offline
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Trans people & sports
March 29, 2017 at 7:23 am
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/23/health/tra...ersy-trnd/

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/34947...r-olympics

The IOC allows a person born male to compete as a woman if his/her testosterone is below a certain level for a year. 

Seems like BS to me. Lower testosterone for a year doesn't eliminate a lifetime of being a man. 

I get that the organizing bodies are in a bad spot. I'd think the best solution is for trans individuals who have an advantage should voluntarily abstain. But that apparently isn't happening.

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RE: Trans people & sports
March 29, 2017 at 7:30 am
Wtf is this obsession always with trans people on forums. And who gives a fuck about sports when the rate of murder, suicide, unemployment and abuse is so much higher?

Top athletes are all freaks anyway so why discriminate against one particular medical condition? What's bullshit s fixating just on m2f trans people.
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RE: Trans people & sports
March 29, 2017 at 7:30 am
Should genetic women who have an advantage abstain as well?
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RE: Trans people & sports
March 29, 2017 at 7:34 am
(March 29, 2017 at 7:30 am)Mathilda Wrote: Wtf is this obsession always with trans people on forums.

This. They think about this far more than I do and I'm living it. Get over yourselves.
I don't believe you. Get over it.
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RE: Trans people & sports
March 29, 2017 at 7:42 am
I don't concern myself with sports drama. What ever rules they play by is up to them. 
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RE: Trans people & sports
March 29, 2017 at 7:50 am
I absolutely agree that people should not be allowed to participate in the Olympics.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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RE: Trans people & sports
March 29, 2017 at 8:35 am
We already did this in another thread.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental. 
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RE: Trans people & sports
March 29, 2017 at 8:44 am
(March 29, 2017 at 8:35 am)mh.brewer Wrote: We already did this in another thread.

Yeah, but this is the most pressing issue of our time, so...
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RE: Trans people & sports
March 29, 2017 at 9:38 am
(March 29, 2017 at 7:30 am)Isis Wrote: Should genetic women who have an advantage abstain as well?


Since testosterone levels are the deciding factor, yes, maybe women with naturally high testosterone should have to compete with men.

Really there's no reason to even categorize it as men's and women's. Shouldn't it be high testosterone/low testosterone?
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RE: Trans people & sports
March 29, 2017 at 10:32 am
The U.S. military may be complicit in the death of over 100 civilians due to coalition air-strikes in Mosul as they battle ISIS, but what do you think of transgender females competing with the other females?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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