Equality being taken away
Women are being ordered to wheesht about that man taking a woman’s place at the Olympics.
Former Olympic weightlifter Tracey Lambrechs says females are being told to “be quiet” when they complain about the [un]fairness of transgender New Zealand athlete Laurel Hubbard competing in women’s competitions.
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“I’m quite disappointed, quite disappointed for the female athlete who will lose out on that spot,” Lambrechs, who won a bronze medal for New Zealand at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, told TVNZ.
And not just disappointed, but also angry at the injustice of it. But wheesht.
“We’re all about equality for women in sport but right now that equality is being taken away from us.
“I’ve had female weightlifters come up to me and say, ‘what do we do? This isn’t fair, what do we do?’. Unfortunately, there’s nothing we can do because every time we voice it we get told to be quiet.”
So, piling injustice on injustice. Doing it to them and then telling them to shut up when they try to talk about it.
In a statement on Thursday, the IOC said that while committed to inclusion, it was currently reviewing its guidelines to take into account the “perceived tension between fairness/safety and inclusion/non-discrimination”.
“Inclusion” isn’t a value at events like the Olympics – not “inclusion” meaning all shall win, all shall have prizes. The Olympics is a contest, and it’s about as exclusive as it gets. Laurel Hubbard shouldn’t be “included” in the women’s weightlifting competition, because he’s not a woman.
Australia’s weightlifting federation sought to block Hubbard from competing at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast but organisers rejected the move.
Because it’s only women who will lose out, so that doesn’t matter.
I suggest that Caucus Races should be introduced in the Olympics (100 metres, 10,000 metres, marathon – the lot), and the principles of the Caucus Race – that anybody may compete in anything they like, that everybody should win – should be adopted for all other sports. It would be very inclusive. There certainly seem to be a lot of dodos in charge at the IOC who might be happy with the idea. .
It’s so f*ing infuriating.
“Perceived” tension, have they gone mad? The tension between inclusion and fairness is inherent to the very concept of fairness! Fairness requires excluding the cheaters. The ones that take steroids, the ones that sabotage their competitors, the ones that are too old for an under 16 competition, and of course the ones that are male but want to compete in the female division.
#1 Tim
Everyone gets a handicap to their time calculated after the race is over specifically to equalise all finish times. Yay! And then the podium is an acre of land with a giant ‘1’ mown into the grass.
Holms: Shh! You’ll get people thinking that inclusion and exclusion aren’t intrinsically good or bad. Wheesht with you, now.
So, while we still mourn that Shirley Babashoff was cheated out of her gold medals in 1976 due to the doping of the East German Women’s swim team, in the name of inclusion no one is to make mention of this out loud? Here’s a blog post on the subject, which is notable in that it was written by a trans advocate:
https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2011/11/olympic-gender-drama-1976-east-german.html
Moral of the story “When men cheat, women didn’t train hard enough. When women cheat, women are cheated.”
The “femme” version????
Google tells me that in fact Babashoff was frequently called the female Mark Spitz. I’d love to know why Trans Griot replaced it with “femme.” Yet more erasure seems the likely reason. Men are women if they say so, but women are “femmes”…according to men.
Always, always, always, women are measured in their relationship to men’s achievements or affectations.
Men are people, women are the weird afterthought.
Ultimately, as many others have pointed out, that’s how we know that every “trans ally” is in fact perfectly aware of the difference between TIMs and the people whose bathrooms, sporting events, social justice movements, domestic abuse shelters, prisons etc. they demand access to: If they weren’t, there is no way in Hell we would be seeing the same level of public outrage and condemnation against any alleged offense towards these people, the same willingness to consider any accusation of discrimination against them proven simply by virtue of being made, the same groveling apologies whenever TIMs complain about anything at all. If they really did think that TWAW, they would be calling them Karens, accusing them of weaponizing their victimhood (for once they would be right on that latter point) and told them to STFU.
Oh, I dunno that they do or they’re just perfectly willing to lie even to an intimate acquaintance. I not too long ago had an arsehole claim that male and female pelvises are virtually identical even with a picture in front of him.
I fortunately have cut ties with him and those who failed to rebuke him just this last week after having been called a white supremacist for not caring about racism towards orcs in Dungeons and Dragons.
NPR: A Researcher Is Trying To Settle The Transgender Athlete Debate — Using Science
The segment is about Joanna Harper, a researcher who has investigated the advantage of TiM athletes over female athletes. (Harper is a trans-identified male.) Preliminary results are that much, but not all, of the advantage can be leveled via hormone treatments; these results are for adults, and there are some other questions regarding kids. This “middle ground” position is not endearing Harper among trans activists, who are pushing, as we know, for self-ID and no required treatments.
I again find it unfortunate that the emphasis is on whether the biological advantage can be reduced or eliminated, rather than on the fundamental question of boys competing against girls.
It’s not OK for small, weak college students to compete against high school teams in a high school league, because that’s not who the league is for. So the college students will win less frequently; they’ll win some of the time, and they’ll push out some high school students.
Similarly, boys on girls teams, even if equal, will deny some opportunities to some girls. The girls’ league is for girls.
The issue of boys competing on girls teams is made even worse by the issue of locker rooms and showers; even just allowing boys to use the girls’ locker room and showers, without playing on the team, is a problem.
But by refusing to frame the situation as boys playing on the girls teams, they have already conceded the main point.
This. A hundred million times this. Arguing about athletic capability tacitly concedes that if capabilities are well matched, then it’s all A-okay.