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When?

I have no idea, you haven't answered me yet.

That's still not why, are you being deliberately obtuse? In fact, this thread kind of mirror's the trouble 'real' women had back in the day...😉

But that's still not why, so please try harder.

So, why haven't you answered any of my question's, directly? I challenge you to provide a single example, in this entire thread... If semantics is your only weapon, "then I can't even talk to you"... 🥱

OK (sigh) for fine read "Also note that, from the very beginning of this thread, I have never been against trying to accommodate transgenders in recreational level sports." You could try to actually answer my question's, with a reason, rather than resorting to an excuse to dodge.

So? Nothing to see here folk's, it's entirely irrelevant to the question posed, again... 😣

Way to miss the point. 🙄 You argue that recreation level sport is fine, and my question is, why does the word elite change the argument?

It's difficult to understand what difference the word 'elite' has on the argument; can you clarify please? And the only way to do that, is to let them play and 'then' analyse the results; banning them first is just putting the cart before the horse...

For me this is similar to the miner's strike in 80's UK, in that the bosses don't need to produce coal anymore; they have already lost IMHO. This, for me, is just the first skirmish in the on coming war for the jobs that an AI can't do, on a 24/7 shift basis... You'll be pleased to know that at least the theatre will remain, relatively, immune to AI overlap. Edit. cross posted with @StringJunky. Kids will always love a "Punch and Judy" show on the beach, surely... 🤒

You and me both, sister... A grown ups sense of fairness is still there, still innate, it's just more sophisticated than a child. A rational adult can see the nuances of such an appeal to fairness, if I may get back to topic, above and beyond, "that monkey got more than me for the same shit that I did. 😣" No, "it's more important than that" an old English football cliché. The thing is, they do think that; for a reason/excuse that eludes me. There is no rational reason, which is why rational argument is so ineffective. Hence page 65 and a confused Dr Who...

There's only one way for us to ever truely know who's 'more' right; it has to be, let them play first, and then gather the evidence to substantiate who's 'more' right, and if your 'more' right, then we adjust the rules to handicap their inclusion, simples... 🧐 It's strange because it's not logical, in the context of the thread; no one is just allowed to declare themselves a male heavy weight boxing professional, especially when they're a twelve yo girl. 🙄 Maybe it's because you're allowed to play... Fair warning (@mistermack) that's a thinker... 🤔

That's a strange argument, ATM such people are potentially certifiable (that's how); we're talking about people who just feel more comfortable as a different sex, to what others perceived them to be. Ohh FFS, grow up... 🥱

Has anyone bothered to ask a woman about this? I have yet to meet a competitive woman that wouldn't happily take on a man... At anything... 🤒

A definiton is also arbitrary, as are the rules of the game; I don't know what the problem is, nobody's suggesting that we let a twelve yo girl take on a professional heavy weight male in a boxing ring. Just let the people who think their female enough to have surgery, play with other females in the appropriate category; it's not going to destroy the sport if the occasional trans person wins a game, jeez; it's not like the floodgates will open, for all the cheating 'men' who will pretend to be trans by sticking their tackle between the leg's. But if it does then employ a border force sargeant to do the strip searches, problem solved...

How would I know? More to the point, how would you know? It's like insisting that anyone who wants to parcipitate in this thread, should have a recognised degree or equivalent level of understanding...

Not my suggestion, I just want to let everyone play and see where the cream rises... How is that the demise of any sport? I agree, but "they" seem to think there are some...

But it would still make you a runner, just not a very good one by that metric, and how the f*&% would you know what it feels like? Just saying "I'd know" doesn't put your education at the elite level either, more at the level of putting your fingers in your ears and sticking your tongue out. Besides the bleeding obvious is, "if it walks like a duck (has breasts) and quacks like a duck (has no willy), it's a bloody duck, ducky" 🙄 My apologies for the oversimplification, everyone else... How does an outlier in any sport threaten the sport? Even if we use F1 as an example, when one car dominates the cry goes up this is boring, it'll destroy the sport; meanwhile the fans of the team/sport increases. And in that example the outliers are 1 in 10ish, in trans athletes it's 1 in 10,000ish by the number of athletic sport's. It's a huge stretch to imagine the demise of an entire sport just because the "wrong" person won, in fact it's ludicrous.

What proof did you have in mind? They can't have children "which is no-ones fault, not even the Romans", is that the measure of a woman? If so, I don't know how I'm going to tell my mum that she's turned into a man... 🙄

It's the same argument every year on "Strictly come dancing", he/she is going to win and they're a truely shit dancer, how is that fair to the dancers with a bit of talent. Well then they're wrong, because these people are women.

What effect and how, and to whom is it concerning? Other than JC

Elite sport's is essentially a beauty contest, it will shuffle itself, from miss/mr Stroud all the way to mr/miss World. My brother was entered into a miss Stroud contest (true story), he didn't win he came 3rd, I think it was honorary. 🤒 Every man/woman/person made rule is arbitrary and sport is nothing more than entertainment... I can understand why a woman (I can't understand why we're fixated on the female side of the argument, it goes both ways) elite athlete is complaining, because HER pay day is threatened; I can't understand why a @J.C.MacSwell is complaining, what's the threat to you?

Define worth... If you don't understand what I post, I can't help that but, you're welcome to ask... Why would you think my post count matters, over a well worded argument? I can only assume, you're bias doesn't allow or understand or value my input, but that's your problem...

I'm just guiding it to the sidings, don't kill me...