Billie M Jones

jakelafort wrote:
Bad idea.

Worse than what we have now? I’m all ears.

Simon Paynton wrote:
Not all trans categories are a single category.

(I wasn’t finished editing my post before you responded… sorry.)

In any case, it could be left up to them (and those non-binaries, and so on in any other category) to come together and make those kinds of determinations themselves. With as much additional support from all…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
They seem like two very different athletic categories.

What Unseen first said didn’t hit me as obvious either, but I think that what you and Unseen say relate to my point:

Help make inter-trans (intra-trans?) competitions more common and popular, because trans people deserve to have them. I think that least some trans events…[Read more]

Maybe trans men and women could compete in their own category someday, even in (say) the Olympics. It might be interesting to see how trans men and trans women would feel about competing with each other, instead of (or in addition to) just competing with their own assigned gender-mates. It might be one way to discover whether or not the genes…[Read more]

Review of literature showing there is no conclusive evidence transwomen on average have a competitive advantage:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5357259/

This article focusses on transgender youth sports, and the lack of evidence that there is an unfair advantage (at the youth level), the harm it causes, the insidious nature of…[Read more]

There are certainly ways to ensure fairness and balance in transwomen competing in sports. There was already rules in place which ensured that trans-women were taking estrogen, had been doing so for a period of time, had transitioned and other measures which deemed there was no unfair advantage.

Alas, prejudice wins again and again. Under the…[Read more]

I am ready to let this topic go.

Sensible.

At this point, all of you are just kicking the half rotted corpse of a well well well dead horse. I would imagine by now, you’ve all restated your extreme, uncompromising stories about how one side is justified in doing atrocious things, are virtuous and the good guys in the story and the others are demonic evil monsters, irredeemable and solely…[Read more]