Boosters
Now there’s a headline.
Yes and adults should be allowed to compete in children’s sports because it boosts their mental health and self-esteem.
I’ll be boring and spell it out. Why does the mental health and self-esteem of men who pretend to be women matter more than women’s mental health and self-esteem? Why does the former in fact simply cancel the latter? Why should men be allowed to trample women into bleeding fragments to boost their own mental health and self-esteem? Why do men count while women are so much garbage?
Researchers at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, said participating in sports had many benefits, including boosting mental health, self-esteem and lowering the risk of obesity and chronic diseases.
No shit, so how about not driving women out of sports?
They advocated for trans people to be allowed to compete in their desired gender category at elementary, middle, high school and college. But they admitted competitive sports were a different matter because participants had invested their whole careers in the game.
Oh horseshit. In elementary school sports aren’t divided between boys and girls are they? The issue is puberty – that’s when male people add all those physical upgrades that women don’t get, on account of how their job is to gestate babies.
They warned that a wave of 22 bans on transgender athletes at schools and colleges was harming the mental and physical health of the group and discouraging them from competing in sports.
That’s fascinating. Now, what about the mental and physical health of girls and women?
Also, there aren’t “bans on transgender athletes.” There are (not nearly enough) bans on men in women’s sports, and there are rules about doping.
Which is both true and widely known, but it takes a large, unexplained leap of logic to go from that, to
Exercise is good for you therefore let males who are perfectly able to compete with other males compete against females instead? I don’t get it.
There’s some segregation by sex for the elementary school age group (though not necessarily in the schools). Our county’s rec soccer league has separate boys’ and girls’ teams for kids at least as young as 8. (Maybe younger; our daughter played on a mixed team in Kindergarten, but she was the kids who was always running away from the clump of kids following the ball, while our son didn’t start till he was 8, so I don’t know what happens in the between years.) I think that’s pretty common.
AoS, there isn’t any “it” to get – it’s just a brazen leap past the place where a logical connection should be.
Ah, a quantum leap, just as an electron orbiting an atomic nucleus jumps between orbital distances (more properly, different energy states) without passing through the intervening space.
Makes some kind of sense, I suppose, since trans ideology is often as incomprehensible as quantum physics; the difference being that quantum physics does at least have mathematical proofs to back it up.
By the time an athlete gets to college, they have invested their whole career in sports; for many, it’s the golden ticket to college, since (1) academic scholarships are hard to come by; and (2) academic scholarships go to those who excel academically, and if you’re an okay student but not first rate, you won’t get one. If you goofed off in high school, then suddenly realized ‘oh, shit, I gotta get a job or go to college’, and you’re determined not to goof off anymore, sports might be your only chance.
Besides, by the time males reach high school, they are able to injure women. And some competitive sports, like the Olympics, are often performed by people who have done athletics their whole life. Shutting women out is shutting women out, regardless of the level of play.
In the US, this is. I don’t think other countries are quite so keen on sports talent as the ticket to higher education.
That’s true. I’ve been guilty of narrow, US thinking. But it still matters to college athletes in other countries; even if they don’t have a scholarship based on it, they’ve invested their lives into their sport in most cases. So even leaving out the competitive athletics doesn’t go far enough to safeguard women’s sports.
Not that I think anyone here is likely to disagree.
Someone explain to me how playing at a level where he has a distinct advantage due to sex helps anyone’s self-esteem.
Other countries may not put so much emphasis on school sports, but they do have academies to develop athletes, and those academies offer benefits that often go beyond esteem and exercise. Lionel Messi is a case in point. He was a talented soccer player from a very young age from a working class family in Argentina, but he had a growth hormone deficiency and required treatment which his father couldn’t afford and his Argentine club wouldn’t pay for. So Barcelona took him in, paid for his treatment, and developed his soccer skills (and in the long run profited handsomely from him). But he only got that opportunity because of his athletic skills.
I don’t think there are as many academies for budding young female athletes, but whatever opportunities exist for them shouldn’t be given to boys.
“…it boosts their mental health and self esteem” to be catered to in every whim, coddled, treated as special and wonderful, to be permitted everywhere you feel like going, and centred when you get there, made the star of the space often, and having your opinions treated as lofty pronouncements of wisdom.
Yeah, no shit.