Post by Max on Oct 3, 2020 14:31:46 GMT
As a champion of female sport; it seems unbelievable that governing bodies are now allowing transgender women to gate-crash. Trans athletes are physically males still carry significantly legacy far closer to men than to women for competition purposes
‘Normal
’ women may have to boycott just to raise attention and get conversation as to the way they are being treated with this ‘new’ threat which could ruin credibility, fairness and integrity for female sport.
There’s a need for a trans category.
It is right and proper to acknowledge the sexes are different. It is simple fact that in most track & field events there is always around 10%-12% difference, in endurance/power events it creeps up to around 15-20% and in pure power events like weightlifting for example it can be in excess of 25%.
There are those who argue ‘equal pay for equal play’ but I actually believe it is makes for a better contest, women play tennis over 3 sets rather than 5. I also believe the heptathlon is better than pushing for a women decathlon event. I actually believe women’s soccer suffers slightly from being played on a full size pitch. It was only 1984 when the IOC deemed women capable of running the marathon.
Women’s sport has always been the poor relation to their male counterparts in regards to sponsors, prize money, media coverage, spectator numbers, to name some challenges faced. Which is largely due to the male dominance also in media and corporate sponsorship not championing women.
It is yet another kick in the teeth to ‘normal’ women, another insult, and another display of sporting authority’s ignorance. All it does is accommodate a home for the ‘on-trend’ and once again trivializes, belittles their efforts, progress, achievements and records. Laurel Hubbard wiped out every historical female record in one days weightlifting competition…it is simply political correctness at its most ridiculous to the detriment of women’s sport, possibly forever!
We see significant gaps between the sexes when we look at the number of women participating in sport – literally millions fewer women than men participate in sport at least once a month. We also see clear differences when you look at the number of women working in sport at every level. Women make up only 15% of qualified coaches and 9% of senior coaches. For almost half of publicly funded sporting governing bodies, significantly less than 10% of their Board are women. This is the same throughout the major sporting global bodies too etc.
Work clearly needs to be done to ensure equality of opportunity by focusing on getting more women and girls participating in sport, more women working in sport at every level and by driving commercial investment in and media coverage of women’s sport.
Surely women’s sport still has more than enough injustices, inequalities and battles still left to fight for without the issue of trans athletes coming into their class, taking their medals and pushing them further back down the order.
‘Normal
’ women may have to boycott just to raise attention and get conversation as to the way they are being treated with this ‘new’ threat which could ruin credibility, fairness and integrity for female sport.There’s a need for a trans category.
It is right and proper to acknowledge the sexes are different. It is simple fact that in most track & field events there is always around 10%-12% difference, in endurance/power events it creeps up to around 15-20% and in pure power events like weightlifting for example it can be in excess of 25%.
There are those who argue ‘equal pay for equal play’ but I actually believe it is makes for a better contest, women play tennis over 3 sets rather than 5. I also believe the heptathlon is better than pushing for a women decathlon event. I actually believe women’s soccer suffers slightly from being played on a full size pitch. It was only 1984 when the IOC deemed women capable of running the marathon.
Women’s sport has always been the poor relation to their male counterparts in regards to sponsors, prize money, media coverage, spectator numbers, to name some challenges faced. Which is largely due to the male dominance also in media and corporate sponsorship not championing women.
It is yet another kick in the teeth to ‘normal’ women, another insult, and another display of sporting authority’s ignorance. All it does is accommodate a home for the ‘on-trend’ and once again trivializes, belittles their efforts, progress, achievements and records. Laurel Hubbard wiped out every historical female record in one days weightlifting competition…it is simply political correctness at its most ridiculous to the detriment of women’s sport, possibly forever!
We see significant gaps between the sexes when we look at the number of women participating in sport – literally millions fewer women than men participate in sport at least once a month. We also see clear differences when you look at the number of women working in sport at every level. Women make up only 15% of qualified coaches and 9% of senior coaches. For almost half of publicly funded sporting governing bodies, significantly less than 10% of their Board are women. This is the same throughout the major sporting global bodies too etc.
Work clearly needs to be done to ensure equality of opportunity by focusing on getting more women and girls participating in sport, more women working in sport at every level and by driving commercial investment in and media coverage of women’s sport.
Surely women’s sport still has more than enough injustices, inequalities and battles still left to fight for without the issue of trans athletes coming into their class, taking their medals and pushing them further back down the order.