When transgenders were given the green light by certain athletic commissions to compete in women's sports I knew that we were headed towards disaster. The social justice warriors that deny men's physical dominance in all sports are simply kidding themselves when they tried to suggest that if someone takes hormone therapy that they somehow are not going to have a huge advantage.
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I'm the type of person that is completely willing to accept people's life choices and this extends to transgenders. I don't think that they should be allowed to negatively impact the lives of other athletes though and this is what we are seeing time and time again. In this particular situation, the victory was so one sided that it simply cannot be ignored. Swimming heats are decided by seconds, or fractions of a second. It is totally abnormal for someone to win by nearly a full minute or an entire length of the pool.
It was already determined that men have a distinct advantage in most competitive sports and swimming was never an exception to this. The top ranked biologically female swimmers in the United States would rank below 500 if their times were compared to the men's division. This isn't sexist, it is a fact.
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Lia had previously competed in the men's division and did reasonably well but was never going to be a top performer. Lo' and behold, once transitioning to female, she is absolutely dominating the competition. The criteria for allowing transgender athletes is based solely on testosterone levels but honestly, this isn't enough to be considered truly fair. Men naturally have much more power and ok, some of this is based on testosterone, but there are other factors at play such as muscle development that occurred prior to their transitioning.
The USA Swimming Association has amended the eligibility criteria to make it so a transgender athlete's testosterone levels must be below a certain level for 36 months in order to qualify but in my mind this isn't enough. Just imagine if your daughter or sister had trained their asses off for years in order to have a chance at perhaps Olympic glory only to have it taken away from them by someone that has a natural biological advantage. An advantage that cannot possibly be replicated by any amount of training or practice. Is this fair?
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Caitlyn Jenner, who is the most famous transgender of all time methinks, has spoken out, surprisingly, against allowing transgender athletes to compete in female sports stating “Her hands are bigger. She can swim faster. That's a known.”
The fact that this is even something that is being discussed remains very strange to me and I know that it is tough for these organizations to state the obvious out of fear of the woke mob's backlash, but it needs to be done. It simply isn't fair.
Have you ever asked yourself why it is that there aren't any female to male transgender athletes? Because they would get destroyed, that's why. It is a one way street as far as all of this is concerned and eventually the United States and the world is going to have to admit that this simply cannot be allowed. If transgenders want to compete I say let them compete but only against other transgender athletes. If this was the only option available I would all but guarantee that there would be no takers..... why? Because they would no longer have an unfair advantage.
If someone out there can come up with a calm, coherent, and sane explanation to how I am wrong about this, I would love to hear it. I can't come up with anything.