There is already an open category, it’s called the men’s competition. In almost every sport (barring a couple of oddities like synchronised swimming) there is, technically speaking, no actual men’s only category. What are labelled such for clarity at sporting events, have no rules by their governing bodies that make any mention of sex or gender.
GA Woolley
2 years ago
This article doesn’t explain in what sense Quinn, a biological female who’s competing as a female, is ‘trans’. What are they transitioning to?
And obviously it is fair because Quinn is a biological female. I must admit I have no problem calling people by their pronouns when they are trans – he and she. I am baulking at the rest of the minefield, which of course can flick flack on any given day.
I have to wonder about Laurel Hubbard’s motivation…. How did she honestly think this would play out? Whatever the result was going to be, it could not be satisfactory
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Chris Milburn
2 years ago
Hmm – this article doesn’t give enough detail for me to form an opinion. Is she taking testosterone and other male hormones? If so that’s an unfair advantage over other women. If one thinks for a moment, if it is OK to transition to male and still compete as a female, and transitioning includes taking testosterone/etc., then all the anti-doping rules get thrown out the window. It’s a slippery slope back to the 70’s-80’s eastern bloc “women’s” teams where every woman who wants to have any hope of competing will need to be doped to the gills.
Jonathan Bagley
2 years ago
Nowher else have I seen it reported that Quinn is a biological female. The BBC hasn’t seen fit to tell us. Shocking.
MJ Reid
2 years ago
It will ever catch on…
Drahcir Nevarc
2 years ago
Fair enough. I’d genuinely like to see how Sarah Taylor fared in 1st class men’s cricket. I think she may have played a couple of games of grade cricket somewhere like Melbourne and done ok. Her keeping is at least as good as that of any of her male counterparts, and it would be interesting to see how she coped with a proper 90mph+ quick.
There is already an open category, it’s called the men’s competition. In almost every sport (barring a couple of oddities like synchronised swimming) there is, technically speaking, no actual men’s only category. What are labelled such for clarity at sporting events, have no rules by their governing bodies that make any mention of sex or gender.
This article doesn’t explain in what sense Quinn, a biological female who’s competing as a female, is ‘trans’. What are they transitioning to?
They are transitioning between female and male in a perpetual loop. The thought makes me dizzy.
I think ‘they’ are(/is?) transitioning to ‘we’.
And obviously it is fair because Quinn is a biological female. I must admit I have no problem calling people by their pronouns when they are trans – he and she. I am baulking at the rest of the minefield, which of course can flick flack on any given day.
I have to wonder about Laurel Hubbard’s motivation…. How did she honestly think this would play out? Whatever the result was going to be, it could not be satisfactory
Hmm – this article doesn’t give enough detail for me to form an opinion. Is she taking testosterone and other male hormones? If so that’s an unfair advantage over other women. If one thinks for a moment, if it is OK to transition to male and still compete as a female, and transitioning includes taking testosterone/etc., then all the anti-doping rules get thrown out the window. It’s a slippery slope back to the 70’s-80’s eastern bloc “women’s” teams where every woman who wants to have any hope of competing will need to be doped to the gills.
Nowher else have I seen it reported that Quinn is a biological female. The BBC hasn’t seen fit to tell us. Shocking.
It will ever catch on…
Fair enough. I’d genuinely like to see how Sarah Taylor fared in 1st class men’s cricket. I think she may have played a couple of games of grade cricket somewhere like Melbourne and done ok. Her keeping is at least as good as that of any of her male counterparts, and it would be interesting to see how she coped with a proper 90mph+ quick.