Let men win
MSP Patrick Harvie thinks men should be allowed to invade women’s sports.
His stupid little cardboard sign says TRANS PEOPLE BELONG IN SPORT which is of course repetition #18 billion of the Big Lie. Nobody is saying trans people don’t belong in sport; people who know their ass from their elbow say male people don’t belong in female sport. Men who claim to be women can still be in sport, they just shouldn’t be in women’s sport.
Conspicuous twit Xander Elliards writes:
PATRICK Harvie stood in solidarity with trans women at a protest on the final day of the cycling world championships.
The Glasgow MSP, who also serves as Active Travel Minister in the Scottish Government, was criticised in some corners after he took part in a protest ride with the charity LEAP Sports Scotland, which coincided with the elite women’s road race.
Leap, which stands for “leadership, equality and active participation” for LGBT people in sports, organised the protest ride after the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) banned trans women from competing in female sporting events.
Why did the UCI do that? Because trans women are men, and have the physical advantages that men have over women, so it’s unfair for them to compete in female sporting events.
Harvie was joined at the event by Bailie Elaine Gallagher, a Greens councillor in Glasgow Southside who is also a trans person. Campaigners with the group held a flag which said “let trans women win” and a placard which said “trans people belong in sport”.
Gender-critical campaign group For Women Scotland criticised the messaging, writing: “The sign … says ‘Let trans women win’. Not enough that they are ‘included’, they are openly confirming what we all already knew, they want to take women’s prizes.”
The comment was amplified by tennis star-turned-campaigner Martina Navratilova, who added: “Sure. Why not? I mean what else is there to take? Nothing.”
Props to Elliard for including that.
Questions were raised about why the protest had targeted the women’s elite road race and not the mens’. However, the UCI has not imposed any restrictions on the rights of trans men to enter men’s competitions.
Because women competing against men is not unfair to the men. Men competing against women is unfair to the women. It’s very simple and very obvious.
I might identify as a racehorse, but there would be no point in my even attempting to enter a horse race, because I would have no hope of winning, any more than: if I identified as a rooster (or a hen) and entered some race for chooks.
I would if I was a starter in some race for earthworms or snails, but where is the prestige of winning something like that, even if the organisers let me compete and grab whatever prizes were going?.
Amazingly enough, the UCI also hasn’t placed any restrictions, AFAIK, on the rights of trans women to enter men’s competitions. Imagine that! Inclusion and diversity in the men’s races. Men get to learn that men who like stereotypes for femininity are also men, and get to be included “in the sport they love.” Men can share their locker rooms, and bathrooms, and sports, with men who look different from themselves. Win-win!