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originally posted by: Indigo5
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: Butterfinger
a reply to: Wardaddy454
6 is WAAAAAY too young to pick a gender. All the facts are in! I'm a dinosaur mermaid! Deal with it.
Choosing ignorance helps no one.
No one "picks" a gender.
Actually about 1 in every 1500 births is born with indeterminate gender....with genitalia somewhere between male and female. In those case the doctors most often make an educated guess and operate accordingly...otherwise...Doctors sometimes "pick" a gender.
Recently some doctors are able to examine Chromosomes and other things to inform the best guess...but it is still a guess.
With a population in the USA of 300M...that means about 200k were assigned a gender at birth.
www.bbc.com...
Edit to add: by assign "gender" I mean physically...obviously the issue is that people grow up to realize that they are emotionally, biologically one gender, but have been given the hardware and "identity" of a different gender.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: yuppa
Question is how prolonged does that have to be? What was the benchmark we started at? Was that benchmark fair for women and how much did the training enhance it? How long then would the subsequent weakening have to occur in order to make the fight fair?
And once we start having to make these calculations, then we no longer have a fair competition because the body and training of the fighter are the variables we are not supposed to have to measure and quantify, but here we are at a point where we are now looking at having to do it because of the hormonal flunctuations of one of the individuals.
originally posted by: Lysergic
So did anyone win over any hearts and minds?
originally posted by: SaturnFX
trans is a mental difference. surgery and such can make some aspects fit the mental condition, but it doesn't change the overall born gender. men are stronger than women. If you are trans, post op with heavy doses of estrogen, it wont change this simple fact..
trans m2f should never, ever be allowed to participate in a physical sport alongside women as they are not a woman in those regards. they are XY still, they are still with masculine denser muscle and bones, etc..nope nope nope.
Can mtf trans participate in things like...shooting competitions, chess, etc..other mental and dexterity based competitions? sure..mental and non-strength related things is fine, thats a level playing field.
originally posted by: Winstonian
a reply to: iTruthSeeker
This is getting out of control. I don't care if someone wants to identify as a different gender, that's their own decision and that's just fine with me. If there really were no differences between the sexes, there would not be gender segregated leagues in any areas of sport. If they really want to push equality, what the organizers should do is remove the gender segregation all together, and watch how quickly 98% of women fall out of competitive sports entirely. It doesn't matter how much surgery you get, you will never be a different gender from which you were born. It might make them happy, and that is great, but crossing into gender specific competition is completely illogical.
originally posted by: yuppa
originally posted by: SaturnFX
trans is a mental difference. surgery and such can make some aspects fit the mental condition, but it doesn't change the overall born gender. men are stronger than women. If you are trans, post op with heavy doses of estrogen, it wont change this simple fact..
trans m2f should never, ever be allowed to participate in a physical sport alongside women as they are not a woman in those regards. they are XY still, they are still with masculine denser muscle and bones, etc..nope nope nope.
Can mtf trans participate in things like...shooting competitions, chess, etc..other mental and dexterity based competitions? sure..mental and non-strength related things is fine, thats a level playing field.
You read my link on what biological gender right? did you also read th e links below on the same page explaining in detail too? Once again GENDER is not your sexual organs.
And Not every man is stronger than a woman thats not always the case. ANd yes your bone density changes as well as muscle mass. They have rules in place to allow Trans gender athletes and they are pretty strict. You can google search it if you like. Now your genes/dna cant be altered but they dont have to be.
Citation: Leyk, D., et al. “Hand-grip strength of young men, women and highly trained female athletes.” European journal of applied physiology 99.4 (2007): 415-421.
originally posted by: Lysergic
a reply to: Annee
If you had actually clicked the links you would have seen the dates....
1993
and
2015
even the citation for the chart
Citation: Leyk, D., et al. “Hand-grip strength of young men, women and highly trained female athletes.” European journal of applied physiology 99.4 (2007): 415-421.