British Rowing reverses its decision and bans transgender women from competing in female events

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British Rowing BANS transgender women from female events after reversing its policy to follow athletics, swimming and cycling

British Rowing has banned transgender women from competing in female races from next month.

Under the governing body's new policy, the men's category will become 'open' for anyone to compete in, while the women's category will be restricted to those who were born female.

British Rowing had previously allowed transgender women to participate in female events providing their testosterone levels were below five nanomoles per litre for two years.

But its new guidelines brings rowing into line with other British Olympic sports, including athletics, swimming and cycling.

This is the latest in a number of sports that have decided to ban transgender women from competing in female events and follows similar decisions made by other sports in Britain such as cycling, swimming, rugby, athletics. A few months ago World Athletics banned transwomen from participating in elite female competitions if they have been through male puberty, and back in 2022 the Swimming's World Governing Body FINA took a similar decision following World Rugby in 2021.

We're witnessing the application of common sense and I wonder why transwomen have been allowed to compete in female competitions in the first place. It's more of a rhetorical question btw. There is no doubt transwomen have a number of advantages when it comes to sports compared to biological women simply because transwomen are men. You can't have men in women's sports or in female only spaces or anywhere else which is designed to be only for women.


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Good.

Not much more to say about it honestly. Sports were separated to begin with not because of some chauvinistic social mindset (though it probably was a point towards it) but because of the simple biological fact that men and women are different physically.

Changing it purely because of nonsensical political ideology and hurt feelings is meaningless & damaging.

originally posted by: Ohanka
Good.

Not much more to say about it honestly. Sports were separated to begin with not because of some chauvinistic social mindset (though it probably was a point towards it) but because of the simple biological fact that men and women are different physically.

Changing it purely because of nonsensical political ideology and hurt feelings is meaningless & damaging.

Imagine an entire society giving in to the demands of a ridiculous ideology that is based on nothing other than activism, beliefs, feelings, and zero science.

It's the right decision and long overdue.

The sad thing is this decision will upset as just as many females as those who agree with the decision. It's better to live life for what it is than to play at life.

originally posted by: Cwantas
The sad thing is this decision will upset as just as many females as those who agree with the decision. It's better to live life for what it is than to play at life.

It's interesting to find out what the position of men is with respect to this matter. Apart from the gender ideologues and trans activists the vast majority of men agree with this decision.

a reply to: Cwantas

Why do you think "this decision will upset as just as many females as those who agree with the decision" ???
I haven't met a single female athlete who thinks people born with a male physiology should compete against females.

Maybe the females I meet are haters?🤣

Under the governing body's new policy, the men's category will become 'open' for anyone to compete in, while the women's category will be restricted to those who were born female.

Great

One step closer to completely eliminating the barrier between the sexes in sports and allowing all people to freely compete against each other.

A striking blow for equality.

originally posted by: AdultMaleHuman73
a reply to: [post=27099975]Cwantas[/post

Why do you think "this decision will upset as just as many females as those who agree with the decision" ???
I haven't met a single female athlete who thinks people born with a male physiology should compete against females.

Maybe the females I meet are haters?🤣

I've met female athletes who belive transgender men should be allowed to compete against females in sports, but then transgenderism is something women champion within our society, not men, so there will be a lot of females who will be disappointed with this decision.

The big question is whether the international federations will all get themselves sorted, so that at the Paris Olympics in 2024 men are not winning women's medals, or breaking women's records.

Edit to add that if not, then I would expect women's races and competition to be disrupted. It just takes a few brave women to refuse to compete, to send the whole competition into disarray.

a reply to: Cwantas
Wow, I'm genuinely shocked that you know any female athletes who support people of male physiology, competing against females in sports.
I assume you are being truthful here, but in my face to face 'real life' world, I haven't met ANY women who support male athletes competing in female categories.
Maybe there should be a national referendum with only born female physiology voters deciding it?

I''d bet a thousand quid on women voting to keep male physiology competitors out of female sports!
...maybe the females in my real world ain't as woke as in your world?

originally posted by: AdultMaleHuman73
a reply to: Cwantas
Wow, I'm genuinely shocked that you know any female athletes who support people of male physiology, competing against females in sports.
I assume you are being truthful here, but in my face to face 'real life' world, I haven't met ANY women who support male athletes competing in female categories.
Maybe there should be a national referendum with only born female physiology voters deciding it?

I''d bet a thousand quid on women voting to keep male physiology competitors out of female sports!
...maybe the females in my real world ain't as woke as in your world?

You properly made me laugh, we live in the same world lol.

You're why I love this site.

a reply to: Cwantas
Oh, full disclosure from me lol, I have a twin sister.
She had/has a fiery dominant spirit, and I was her bitch throughout childhood. She punched the same as me, until puberty kicked in, that was the thing that massively changed us, in less than a year, she was glad that I wasn't a bully like her!🤣

Male physiology is just an obvious biological fact, and I say tough # transwomen, if you went through male puberty then you don't get to compete against natural born females.

a reply to: AdultMaleHuman73
I work with a woman who plays rugby at the weekends, she's a lesbian and she 100% believes transgender men should be allowed to compete against women in sports.
She loves the idea that men can be turned into women, it's a woman thing.

a reply to: Cwantas
Omg I played rugby to age 18, I don't doubt that some hard bitch lesbians in the game would love to compete against transwomen!
They'd soon change their minds if the males First XV team...all became transwomen!
Surely you can see why?!🤣

a reply to: AdultMaleHuman73
It boils down to foresight, the west now as a society lacks foresight.

originally posted by: dandandat2

Under the governing body's new policy, the men's category will become 'open' for anyone to compete in, while the women's category will be restricted to those who were born female.

Great

One step closer to completely eliminating the barrier between the sexes in sports and allowing all people to freely compete against each other.

A striking blow for equality.

I think you got this wrong.

In most athletic competitions there are only two categories: men and women

The ban on transwomen athletes in female sports is the only way to ensure fairness in sports.

An open category means something else given that in female sports no men are allowed. If you have an open category it pretty much means men's sports. That will include men, transwomen who are biologically male, and women who want to compete in male sports (extremely unlikely).

originally posted by: AdultMaleHuman73
a reply to: Cwantas
Omg I played rugby to age 18, I don't doubt that some hard bitch lesbians in the game would love to compete against transwomen!
They'd soon change their minds if the males First XV team...all became transwomen!
Surely you can see why?!🤣

In an open category you can get this!

But the ban on transwomen in female competitions does ensure fairness in sports.

As I said above an open category is almost the same as men's sports. Men, transwomen (men), and some crazy-brave girls, but the latter is extremely unlikely.

originally posted by: Cwantas
The sad thing is this decision will upset as just as many females as those who agree with the decision. It's better to live life for what it is than to play at life.

I dunno about "just as many" women who will be upset. Polling in the US shows 65% of the public do not support men in women's sports. I can't find a breakdown by gender, but if 65% of the public don't want men in women's sports, it's likely well over a majority of women who do not want men in women's sports.

There are women who do support men in women's sports, but they're a minority. It's not an even split.

And of those who say they support it, how many of them really support it, and how many just say they do for the social credit, and how many are just afraid to disagree with it because of the violent woke mob supporting men in women's sports?

There's no way to accurately quantify those things, but we know for a fact there are people who do both of those things, so genuine support for this nonsense is definitely lower than polling suggests.

originally posted by: Cwantas
a reply to: AdultMaleHuman73
It boils down to foresight, the west now as a society lacks foresight.

What is the foresight you speak of?
My own 'foresight' specifically regarding this topic, is that if the current male first team, of my town's rugby club, became transwomen, they would absolutely smash our female first team.
You can reduce testosterone, cut cocks off, but you won't reduce the bone/muscle mass advantages that the transwomen have.

I get that you want things to be 'fair' but biology and male puberty is unforgiving, and remains unchangeable.

I am absolutely against males competing against females when the contest involves strength and impacts, it simply cannot be a fair battle.

originally posted by: Cwantas
I work with a woman who plays rugby at the weekends, she's a lesbian and she 100% believes transgender men should be allowed to compete against women in sports.
She loves the idea that men can be turned into women, it's a woman thing.

Even the RFU recognises the safety concerns with men playing in the women's game. Transmen (i.e. biological women) playing in women's sports is not problematic, given it's women playing against women. The caveat being the amount of hormones that may have been consumed by the transman, of course. The main problem is transwomen (i.e. biological men) playing in women's sports, where physiological differences give unfair advantage.

And, the question for your alleged lesbian friend is whether she would date a biological man, just because they were trans. Or, whether she agrees to the "new conversion therapy" where girls who are confused about their sexuality, and who would have previously grown up to be lesbian, are now being told under gender ideology that they should consider themselves to be a boy.

When push comes to shove, virtue signalling is trumped by reality.