Part 1: Ima preface this by saying what anyone does with their life and their
individual pursuit of happiness is their fuckin right and I will never
stop fighting for your ability to do so… now the dreaded “with that
being said…”
Name one transfem Olympian that this ruling protects against.
So I’m not going to spend a ton of time going through every story and
source because there is so much toxic shit sources around this topic so
I am going to keep the list simple and only guna list widely known
sources of stories about athletes winning for Olympic sports. The list
itself is pulled from a shitty source so fuck citing that source, I will
only provide the sources for the articles each story was pulled from. I
took tons of time to get the links formatted and checking the stories
and sources so if the vernacular used in the actual list is not
universally appropriate, please just disregard and read the story being
linked. The linked sources for each story, I think are all applauding
the trans athlete.
*not Olympic athletes, just sports that are in the Olympics as far as I
know.
Which of those girls are out there stealing medals?
Women’s
basketball
– A 50-year-old, 6-foot-6-inch man, who played on a college men’s team
30 years prior, played on a women’s junior college basketball team.
Women’s
handball
– A male athlete, who formerly played on an NCAA Division III women’s
soccer team, now plays for Team USA Women’s Beach Handball.
Women’s
bodybuilding
– A male who had competed in men’s bodybuilding in the past started
competing as a woman.
Women’s
cricket
– A male athlete competed on a women’s cricket team in England, and
another male athlete previously did so in Australia.
Women’s cross
country
– A male runner competed on an NCAA Division I women’s cross country
team and was named the conference’s “Women’s Athlete of the Week.”
Running seems to be a talent where the gap between men and women is
wider, even though I thought it was one of the sports where women had
faster world record times than men but like I said not trying to spend
tons of time researching cases because there are tooo many toxic as fuck
sources for every good source. Including the story about the
transgender runner who broke two women’s track and field records for
New York
college
Women’s
cycling
– A male athlete won gold in the women’s 200-meter sprint in both the
2018 and 2019 Masters Track Cycling World Championships. Another male
cyclist first competed in the women’s category in 2017.
Women’s mountain
biking
– A male athlete who previously competed in the men’s open division won
back-to-back national championships in the women’s elite division in
2018 and 2019.
Women’s power
lifting
– A male power-lifter competed as a female and broke several records
before being disqualified.
Women’s
skateboarding
– A 29-year-old male athlete competed in a women’s street skateboarding
competition in New York City and beat out a 13-year-old girl for first
place.
Women’s
surfing
– A male athlete who previously won a Western Australia state surfing
championship in the men’s division competed in the women’s division in
2022 and won two women’s state championships.
Women’s swimming – A male swimmer who competed on the men’s team for
three years began competing on the women’s team and won a 2022 NCAA
Championship
in the 500-yard freestyle event. Another male swimmer competed on the
men’s team for three years before competing on the women’s team and
recording the fastest women’s times in three events at the 2019 Missouri
Valley Conference Championships as an exhibition
swimmer.
Women’s track and field
– Two male athletes dominated girls’ high school competitions in
Connecticut. A male athlete won first place in the women’s mile race at
an NCAA Division I conference championship. And another male college
athlete won the 400-meter hurdles at the NCAA Division II women’s
national championships. As well as the story of Ada Gallagher who set
new records at Track
Championship.
This doesn’t even seem possible: trans high school track star sparks
fury after winning girls’ triple jump by staggering 8
feet](aol.com/trans-high-school-track-star-174914172.ht…)
UN Report on balance of medals won by females vs
females
*If I read this correctly, it is fucking terrifying the UN could be so
dysfunctional that a report done by a single person and no peer reviews
or fact checking is able to get this much attention much-less even be
released to the media by the UN.
NewDayRocks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
To anyone reading this, know that this guy is just posting Gish Gallop and misunderstanding the assignment.
The question was which transfem Olympians this ruling protects against. As in, people who are switching from MtF to gain a competitive advantage by abusing the rules to steal medals?
The very first example this guy cites is a 50yo MtF who joined some tiny school basketball team… to play basketball. Even in the game cited she played poorly and their team lost. They are not a competitive team in any sense.
OP is purposely trying to pad out a list to make something a problem that isn’t. Somewhat ironic because thats basically the whole trans athlete issue summed up.