Re: Hannah Mouncey
Reply #107 –
So if Anrich Nortje becomes a trans athlete and wants to play female cricket we are going to have women facing 155km deliveries, sounds a good way to get a lot of female cricketers badly injured or worse.
In some sports like LP pointed out like Golf etc it would work fine but in others it would be a brutal advantage to the former male in most cases.
LP's comments when he says "For other sports that aren't gender neutral the girls deserve the right to have their own league and to be able to compete in that league on equal terms with peers. This whole trans-athlete debate is not about equality at all, it's a massive advantage dressed up as a form of non-discrimination.
LP has Nailed it and nothing further to add....
And what are the chances of Nortje deciding that he’s really female? Would he make more money playing cricket as a she? Would he even be able to play cricket competitively after gender reassignment?
170 Australians identified as transgender in the 2016 census. That’s probably a gross underestimate but, even if it was 170,000, that’s a minuscule percentage of our population. Even so, of my projected 100,000 male to female transgender folk, how many would have the ability and desire to play competitive sport?
I don’t think that transgender females should be competing against biological females and I don’t think many transgender males would have a competitive advantage over biological males. Some transgender females, Hannah Mouncey for example, and some activists maintain that not allowing transgender females to take part in female sport is discrimination. It probably is but, as others have suggested, it’s justifiable discrimination because it involves health and safety and fairness.
I reckon that at least 95% of transgender females have absolutely no desire to use their male physique to gain an advantage in any competitive sport. Of the remainder, I doubt very much that any were motivated to transition by the lure of making their fortune beating up on female athletes.
In other words, transgender athletes gaining an unfair advantage over biological females is a non-issue. By all means ban transgender athletes from gendered competitions. Sadly, anti-transgender hysteria provides fertile ground for neo-nazi anti-LBQTI+ propaganda.