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Choke holds are prohibited in wrestling. If the guy is "much larger" than his opponents, something is wrong - wrestlers are paired by weight class.What odd times we find ourselves in. Men are accused of committing a sexist microaggresion if we compliment a woman's appearance on the one hand, while men are encouraged to beat the holy crap out of women in competitive sports, if they're transgender. Don't pictures of a white dude trashing girls of color make you cringe? It does me.
Transgender wrestler Mack Beggs closing the windpipe of a female wrestler, while restraining her arm behind her
Mack Beggs strutting off the canvas, after trouncing a much smaller Latina at the Texas state girl's championship
Do you support transgenders being allowed to compete in sports, when their trans status is a clear advantage for them, due to strength, hormone treatment, etct
There was another thread here some time ago that related to Mack Beggs.
Mack was born female and is transitioning from female to male.
TX policy is that a student must compete in the gender of their birth certificate.
Mack identifies as male. He wants to wrestle boys as that is the gender he identifies as.
Texas says no.
Texas should bar hormone treatments as PEDs and this problem would be solved.
Or... there’s another solution.
Think real hard.
Because then asthmatics couldn’t compete in sports, since non medical use of albuterol inhalers would be considered a PED.
What odd times we find ourselves in. Men are accused of committing a sexist microaggresion if we compliment a woman's appearance on the one hand, while men are encouraged to beat the holy crap out of women in competitive sports, if they're transgender. Don't pictures of a white dude trashing girls of color make you cringe? It does me.
Transgender wrestler Mack Beggs closing the windpipe of a female wrestler, while restraining her arm behind her
Mack Beggs strutting off the canvas, after trouncing a much smaller Latina at the Texas state girl's championship
Do you support transgenders being allowed to compete in sports, when their trans status is a clear advantage for them, due to strength, hormone treatment, etc?
This is ridiculous. A couple of years ago, a female olympic level swimmer transitioned to male, and was relegated to swim with the male team, where he understandably had a considerable disadvantage; he understood and accepted this.
Now we have a female wrestler transitioning to male, and still competing with females instead of being moved to the male team; utterly ridiculous.
Sports needs to get its act together when it comes to transgenders, who should be treated as the gender they associate with, especially after they have begun the transition process.
I wonder what sports teams will do when hermaphrodites start making themselves known and agitate for their rights?
Are you ****ing kidding? Seriously... where on earth is your head at when you would post such idiocy? Transgenders have the right to choose which gender they identify with; when they have gone far enough to have passed the myriad psychological tests and physiological medical decisions that hormonal and other therapies are required to adjust to the gender identification that these individuals have suffered trauma for years, why would you disrespect their choice in such a public and callous way? I have respected your positions until now; perhaps I do not understand what you are trying to say.
Choke holds are prohibited in wrestling. If the guy is "much larger" than his opponents, something is wrong - wrestlers are paired by weight class.
That said, I'm not in favor of transgendered males competing with females; as I understand even after hormone therapy and operation vestigial masculine muscle strength remains.
Way I see it, if I'm wrestling a transgender person, and they beat me. I'm not going to point out that my sex is inferior because of my own shortcomings. Or lesson their victory by cheapening it.
I knew what they were when I agreed to compete.
I am confident in my own abilities.
I've seen girls compete with boys and win plenty of times at wrestling. And if the boy complains he lost to a girl, and girls shouldn't compete, I've lost respect for that boy.
No two people whether they share a gender or not is going to come into a competition with the same muscle strength, same preparation, and same endurance.
No two people whether they share a gender or not is going to come into a competition born on an equal play field. I was born stronger than my brother. Inherently stronger. Should I be kept from competing with him, is he lesser by virtue of birth?
No.
It's not always the stronger, or the faster.
If you have a problem with a trans athlete, and you reduce their whole life down to a transition so they can have an easier time competing. Then you are projecting your own fears, not describing a situation. You couldn't cut, so you think they can't, and they found a loophole to win. Because winning is everything, worth everything, even cutting off your penis when wouldn't normally.
No.
You lessen their achievements, and lessen the achievements of the people who beat them, when you play your crybaby it's not fair bull****.
Time to realize equal means equal, not regular equality for these people and equality preferred plus for yours. This isn't a rewards program you get to pay a lil more for the special lounge.
Dude want's to be a lady, she's a lady. She wants to compete, let her compete. There are plenty of natural born women capable of beating a mediocre athlete with a birth advantage. They do it everyday against the other athletes who were born taller, faster, and stronger from their own gender.
girls competing with boys should be fine but boys/men that want ot compete with girls should not be allowed at all...
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