I wrote earlier how a man entered a women's powerlifting competition, and won all 9 category events he participated in, and broke 4 world records, just like that.
Well, in a quite surprising twist, the official Powerlifting Federation issued a press release where they stated that they did not know about this until after the competition, and that they will not be recognizing the world records, because they categorize the male and female divisions based on biological sex, not on self-identification.
This is a really ballsy move, and you can be sure they will be receiving some serious flak for this. They are quite unusually and courageously showing some integrity, and actually defending women and their right to fair competition (something that feminists, ironically, are willfully failing to do). You can be damn sure they will be the target of the SJW mob for this. I just hope they don't cave in due to the pressure.
On the other hand, they are making the concession to the current political climate in that they will be creating a separate "transgender" division.
Many people have pointed out how completely pointless that will be. Transgender "women" will be just men competing against men, and transgender "men" will be just women competing against women. What exactly is the difference to the current situation? They are just splitting the men's division and the women's division into two, just to placate to political correctness, with no actual benefit.
Also, people have pointed out that there aren't actually that many "transgender" powerlifters. How many are there, really? Like a dozen, spread all over the world? The participation rate in those competitions will most probably be ridiculously low. Probably oftentimes even with no participants at all.
Well, at least it's pretty harmless. Creating a separate division is not taking anything away from current athletes. If they want to play among themselves, whatever floats their collective boats, I suppose. It's not harmful, just largely pointless.
Well, in a quite surprising twist, the official Powerlifting Federation issued a press release where they stated that they did not know about this until after the competition, and that they will not be recognizing the world records, because they categorize the male and female divisions based on biological sex, not on self-identification.
This is a really ballsy move, and you can be sure they will be receiving some serious flak for this. They are quite unusually and courageously showing some integrity, and actually defending women and their right to fair competition (something that feminists, ironically, are willfully failing to do). You can be damn sure they will be the target of the SJW mob for this. I just hope they don't cave in due to the pressure.
On the other hand, they are making the concession to the current political climate in that they will be creating a separate "transgender" division.
Many people have pointed out how completely pointless that will be. Transgender "women" will be just men competing against men, and transgender "men" will be just women competing against women. What exactly is the difference to the current situation? They are just splitting the men's division and the women's division into two, just to placate to political correctness, with no actual benefit.
Also, people have pointed out that there aren't actually that many "transgender" powerlifters. How many are there, really? Like a dozen, spread all over the world? The participation rate in those competitions will most probably be ridiculously low. Probably oftentimes even with no participants at all.
Well, at least it's pretty harmless. Creating a separate division is not taking anything away from current athletes. If they want to play among themselves, whatever floats their collective boats, I suppose. It's not harmful, just largely pointless.
One side of this is it give women sports attention (few people care about female sports) and a power grabbing tool for the SJW's. The obvious is it's unfair to women as they will always loose. Any game where you have no chance at winning is no longer a game worth playing, this is sports 101. It's why you have weight and male/female divisions, the field has to be leveled so you have a possibility of winning otherwise it's no longer something you can realistically compete in. Who wants to participate in a sport where you have zero chance at winning? If gone unchecked it delegitimize female sports. It also will encourage women to use even more steroids (life shortening and permanently damaging) as it would be the only chance they would have. Realistically it has to get call out for female sports to survive.
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