Trans women in sports

[Trollheart]

Haha video must have been blocked by Man United!
(It was Aguerro scoring the winning goal that won Man City the Premiership title in 2012, thus denying, in mere seconds, it to their hated rivals, Man United, who were all but popping champagne corks at the time)

[Toy Revolver]

just posting this nytimes screenshot to point out how popular women's sports are in america- i consider it a good quality about our culture-

[Jwb]

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[SGR]

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[Guybrush]

Some of our most popular / well known athletes are women, like Marit Bjørgen and Therese Johaug. This is long distance skiing by the way. Women's handball was a lot more popular than men's as well. Our most famous boxer is a woman, Cecilie Brækhus.

I assume man dominated sports or men's leagues are still more popular (the only sport I ever slightly cared about is chess, so I don't know much), but it's not one-sided here at least. Put on the spot, I could name more female athletes.

[Jwb]

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lol. Great clip.

[Jwb]

Some of our most popular / well known athletes are women, like Marit Bjørgen and Therese Johaug. This is long distance skiing by the way. Women's handball was a lot more popular than men's as well. Our most famous boxer is a woman, Cecilie Brækhus.

I assume man dominated sports or men's leagues are still more popular (the only sport I ever slightly cared about is chess, so I don't know much), but it's not one-sided here at least. Put on the spot, I could name more female athletes.

lol... long distance skiing and handball huh? I stand corrected then. :p

[Guybrush]

Some of our most popular / well known athletes are women, like Marit Bjørgen and Therese Johaug. This is long distance skiing by the way. Women's handball was a lot more popular than men's as well. Our most famous boxer is a woman, Cecilie Brækhus.

I assume man dominated sports or men's leagues are still more popular (the only sport I ever slightly cared about is chess, so I don't know much), but it's not one-sided here at least. Put on the spot, I could name more female athletes.

lol... long distance skiing and handball huh? I stand corrected then. :p

It's all a big yawn to me, but at least I think handball has a lot more scores than soccer.

Why soccer? American football is probably more fun, but then your athletes do get swiss cheese brains from all the concussions.

[Psy-Fi]

American football is probably more fun, but then your athletes do get swiss cheese brains from all the concussions.

It seems like half of them are already that way even before they start playing football.

[jimmy jazz]

Going to be an absolute shitfest after this.

https://news.sky.com/story/paris-2024-boxer-who-failed-gender-eligibility-test-at-world-championships-wins-olympic-bout-in-46-seconds-after-opponent-quits-13188674

A boxer who was previously banned from competing in the world championships because she failed testosterone and gender eligibility tests has won her opening Olympic bout after her opponent quit.

Algeria's Imane Khelif won in just 46 seconds after the Italian Angela Carini quit in the 66kg category.

The pair had only a few punch exchanges before Carini abandoned the bout - an extremely unusual occurrence in Olympic boxing.

[degrassi.knoll]

Going to be an absolute shitfest after this.

https://news.sky.com/story/paris-2024-boxer-who-failed-gender-eligibility-test-at-world-championships-wins-olympic-bout-in-46-seconds-after-opponent-quits-13188674

So this is not a trans woman but a cis woman with naturally high testosterone levels, no?

Ignoring the Algerian, the Italian fighter then plunged to her knees and burst into tears as she said she had never felt such strong blows in a contest before.

Lol like, sorry lady, but you got your ass kicked by another girl. Nice try weaponizing your tears.

Quite the slippery slope to assess the "right" level of hormones to be deemed gender eligible.

[jimmy jazz]

So this is not a trans woman but a cis woman with high testosterone levels, no?

The IBA has said no, the Olympics have said yes.

[degrassi.knoll]

The IBA has said no, the Olympics have said yes.

Reading her history she grew up in rural Algeria, and wasn't allowed to play sports as a kid because she was a girl.

[jimmy jazz]

Reading her history she grew up in rural Algeria, and wasn't allowed to play sports as a kid because she was a girl.

There seems to be a bit of a conflict between the IBA and Olympics as to what tests have been done and what the results were.

If she is a biological woman then I can't see why she shouldn't be allowed to box.

[Marie Monday]

I found no evidence whatsoever that she's trans, and there's certainly evidence to the contrary. Also the Italian opponent clearly stated that her abandonment of the match is not meant as criticism (whether that's true or not, but that doesn't really matter). Just another case of an article being phrased to insinuate stuff to make people angry