Do you support transgender (formerly male) athletes competing against female athletes?
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Care to link a single other thread you have posted (or failing that, even participated in) that expressed clear support for women and women's rights?
I don't recall my advocating support for men and men's rights; should one surmise that I don't support men? Faulty logic.
You said *I* was unreasonable. In the post you quote I was explaining the post of one poster to another poster who had misunderstood them. I never claimed it as my opinion - you saw what you wanted to see. Where have *I* been unreasonable?
I never said anything about the requirement of existence. Try reading with your glasses on next time.
It would be cool
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and could work in some sports where skill and coordination are more important than strength and speed, like archery, bowls, equestrianism, maybe surfing, and some endurance sports.
One of the main principles in sport is fair contest - the 'level playing field'. That's why there are divisions by age (junior/senior), by weight (in boxing) and by biological gender. That's why performance enhancing drugs are banned - not just because they enhance performance but because they give an unfair advantage to those who have access to them over those who don't. It's hard to see how men and women can compete on a level playing field in most sports when men on average are bigger, taller, stronger and faster. It's too big an advantage to be fair contest.
Also sport is big business. Mixed doubles in tennis is fun but far fewer people pay to watch it than men's or women's singles. I don’t see there'd be a huge crowd for mixed boxing matches, for example or 100m sprint - it would be a poor spectacle and poorly attended.
Don't expect a response. The second this guy feels like he has been made a fool by a particular person he shuts them out all together. He's only interested in an echo chamber.
People like him are the reason I refuse to use the ignore function.
You'd think he'd apologise, being so big on morality...
For attributing an opinion to me that wasn't mine and calling me "unreasonable". Are you always this dense?
I quoted your statement in your post. You need to work on your writing skills.
No, it wasn't *my* statement. *You* blindly reacted:
Incidentally you liked posts by both of the male posters involved, yet when a woman explains the opinion of the first man to the second man, not even her own opinion, you are rude, presumptuous and dismissive. Very telling.
Oh and my writing skills are far superior to yours buttercup. Try not to be triggered by every little thing a woman posts.
It's ok, I knew you were too insecure to apologise.
I'm pretty sure most people did - you really don't need to feign lightheartedness.
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