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Old 01-28-2016, 02:19 PM
 
Location: Chicago Area
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The sad fact here is consider the lengths repressive totalitarian regimes go to for Olympic success?

Tell me there isn't going to be a sudden "flood" of men with new found transgender feelings (and family being held hostage) under drug treatment to meet the qualifying hurdle and then competing as a "woman".

I'm not talking about the occasional actual transgender case but instead widespread pharmaceutical abuse for "national pride".
I wonder when they'll rethink this nonsense. It's only a matter of time before transgender men will win gold in virtually all women's events. Will that be enough to bring us back to sanity?
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Old 01-28-2016, 02:19 PM
 
Location: Ohio
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The transwomen may compete in any male competition without restriction, but the transmen must have had a testosterone level below a certain threshold for the last 12 months before they will be allowed to win medals as a female.
Well, that's 10 reasons right there not to watch the Olympics ever again.
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Old 01-28-2016, 02:24 PM
 
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Very strange.
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Old 01-28-2016, 02:41 PM
 
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I totally disagree. Even w/o high testosterone levels there are some sports where a biologically born male will always have an advantage over females.

Boxing for example.

As someone who is generally supportive of the LGBTQ community, even I think this is a bullcrap ruling.
Didn't a transwoman send a bio female into a coma after a MMA fight?
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Old 01-28-2016, 02:47 PM
 
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...... It's only a matter of time before transgender men will win gold in virtually all women's events. Will that be enough to bring us back to sanity?
They'll just institute a an Affirmative Action type quota system. To a progressive there's no turning back "progress".

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Old 01-28-2016, 02:50 PM
 
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Didn't a transwoman send a bio female into a coma after a MMA fight?

He didn't put her into a coma, but yeah, he hurt her bad.

Transgender "Female" MMA Fighter Brutally Injures Female Opponent
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Old 01-28-2016, 02:53 PM
 
Location: Chicago Area
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Didn't a transwoman send a bio female into a coma after a MMA fight?
You're talking about Fallon Fox and you're sorta right.

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During Fox's fight against Tamikka Brents, Brents suffered a concussion, an orbital bone fracture, and seven staples to the head. After her loss, Brents took to social media to fuel the controversy surrounding Fox's perceived advantage: "I've fought a lot of women and have never felt the strength that I felt in a fight as I did that night. I can’t answer whether it’s because she was born a man or not because I’m not a doctor. I can only say, I’ve never felt so overpowered ever in my life and I am an abnormally strong female in my own right,” she stated. "Her grip was different, I could usually move around in the clinch against other females but couldn’t move at all in Fox’s clinch
The UFC will never allow Fallon Fox to compete, so at least sanity prevails in some corners of the world.
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Old 01-28-2016, 02:56 PM
 
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I totally disagree. Even w/o high testosterone levels there are some sports where a biologically born male will always have an advantage over females.

Boxing for example.

As someone who is generally supportive of the LGBTQ community, even I think this is a bullcrap ruling.






Once you open the door it keeps getting pushed open wider, we already know.
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Old 01-28-2016, 03:12 PM
 
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I feel sorry for all of the woman Olympians that have trained so hard, blood doped and taken cutting edge hormones and masking agents that could be cheated out of their quest to win a medal.

I just had to say this because the irony of just how dirty the Olympics are ALREADY is not lost to me.

Just wait, in 100 years they'll have the ladies with spliced DNA from lions being called cheaters by the cyborg contestants.

Meanwhile the 100 yard dash world record will be 3 seconds and held by a man that cut off his own legs to be qualified for using a wheel chair with a 600hp electric motor.

It's the freakin' Laff-Olympics.
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Old 01-28-2016, 03:41 PM
 
Location: Phila & NYC
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The transwomen may compete in any male competition without restriction, but the transmen must have had a testosterone level below a certain threshold for the last 12 months before they will be allowed to win medals as a female.

New Guidelines Say Trans Athletes Can Participate in Olympics without Surgery | Teen Vogue

The NCAA has had a similar policy in place since 2011, although there has yet to be a case of a trans female participant. There have been a few trans men, that continued to play on a womens team.

National Collegiate Athletic Association - News Archive
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