Post by Max on Sept 30, 2020 17:20:23 GMT
In the new era of gender fluidity, transgender….should sport still bother to keep competition between the sexes separate classifications?
The answer is a resounding yes! Without the distinction women might as well stay at home because they will never win another thing, never achieve any kind of record and no female would ever have the remotest chance of winning a medal again. They would be nowhere.
Testosterone cannot be underestimated as a weapon of speed, power, endurance and strength.
It makes a MASSIVE difference in physical competition between the sexes, hence the need for separate classifications, especially when you consider many sporting contests are won or lost on tiny margins of less than 1% between gold & silver medals and just 3 or 4% might cover the top 8.
We have the data to say over 2,000 men in the world have run the 100 meters faster than the women’s world record. It is now acknowledged that Serena Williams wouldn’t be able to win a match against any man in the top 1,500.
We saw decades of East German programme loading their females with testosterone which resulted in their athletes dominating records and medals at the expense of other competitors….and in many cases their own health later on.
Look at Lance Armstrong, he was an average mid-packer among his male rivals before going on ‘the program’ but by juicing up his body he dominated. It is incredibly powerful.
Richard Raskind was a 6’2” left handed tennis player, decent enough but never made the top 100. In 1975 aged 42 he transitioned and although unfit she came back to the tour as Rene Richards and effortlessly broke the top 20.
The IOC is currently saying that trans athletes can enter competition against females when their testosterone is reduced through medication from the male figure of around 30nmol down to 10 nmol. Where is the logic?! If Caster was banned from competing against women for naturally producing 5nmol, why allow trans to compete with 10? This cannot be fair towards women who naturally only produce between 1 and 2nmol.
I say by all means allow intersex and trans athletes to compete either in their own category or make the men’s classification ‘open’. This allows anyone to compete and unleash their fullest potential in sport….but they all know their performances and names would go largely unnoticed without headlines….the glory and riches they yearn can only come by gate-crashing women’s sport and shamelessly hijacking the podiums at medal ceremonies like common cuckoos in a sparrows nest.
The intersex issue is very different to ‘trans’ but to give some perspective on the power of testosterone, we now know all 3 medals in the Rio 2016 Olympic 800m women’s final went to intersex athletes. Despite Caster’s ability and double the testosterone levels compared to her competitors she would never get close to the men’s qualifying times needed to even get to the heats at any major championships.
Women’s sport needs some protection.
The answer is a resounding yes! Without the distinction women might as well stay at home because they will never win another thing, never achieve any kind of record and no female would ever have the remotest chance of winning a medal again. They would be nowhere.
Testosterone cannot be underestimated as a weapon of speed, power, endurance and strength.
It makes a MASSIVE difference in physical competition between the sexes, hence the need for separate classifications, especially when you consider many sporting contests are won or lost on tiny margins of less than 1% between gold & silver medals and just 3 or 4% might cover the top 8.
We have the data to say over 2,000 men in the world have run the 100 meters faster than the women’s world record. It is now acknowledged that Serena Williams wouldn’t be able to win a match against any man in the top 1,500.
We saw decades of East German programme loading their females with testosterone which resulted in their athletes dominating records and medals at the expense of other competitors….and in many cases their own health later on.
Look at Lance Armstrong, he was an average mid-packer among his male rivals before going on ‘the program’ but by juicing up his body he dominated. It is incredibly powerful.
Richard Raskind was a 6’2” left handed tennis player, decent enough but never made the top 100. In 1975 aged 42 he transitioned and although unfit she came back to the tour as Rene Richards and effortlessly broke the top 20.
The IOC is currently saying that trans athletes can enter competition against females when their testosterone is reduced through medication from the male figure of around 30nmol down to 10 nmol. Where is the logic?! If Caster was banned from competing against women for naturally producing 5nmol, why allow trans to compete with 10? This cannot be fair towards women who naturally only produce between 1 and 2nmol.
I say by all means allow intersex and trans athletes to compete either in their own category or make the men’s classification ‘open’. This allows anyone to compete and unleash their fullest potential in sport….but they all know their performances and names would go largely unnoticed without headlines….the glory and riches they yearn can only come by gate-crashing women’s sport and shamelessly hijacking the podiums at medal ceremonies like common cuckoos in a sparrows nest.
The intersex issue is very different to ‘trans’ but to give some perspective on the power of testosterone, we now know all 3 medals in the Rio 2016 Olympic 800m women’s final went to intersex athletes. Despite Caster’s ability and double the testosterone levels compared to her competitors she would never get close to the men’s qualifying times needed to even get to the heats at any major championships.
Women’s sport needs some protection.