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Other well-documented physical advantages men have over women include height, weight, broader shoulders, greater circulating blood volume, greater resistance to dehydration, larger lung capacity, thicker skin, faster sensory frame shifting, more hemoglobin in the blood, greater upper-body strength, faster reaction times, greater bone density in the arms, larger sweat capacity, higher systolic blood pressure, higher muscle-to-fat ratio, and larger hearts
1. The lifter identifies as female, and so entered the contest (with no prior consultation with the Meet Director or (100% RAWofficials). Our rules, and the basis of separating genders for competition, are based on physiological classification rather than identification. On the basis of all information presented to the Board of Directors for this particular case, the conclusion made, is that the correct physiological classification is male.
2. Since the lifter’s gender classification for the purpose of our rules is not consistent with female, no female records will be broken by these lifts.
3. The lifter was uncontested during the event therefore no female lifters were denied a place finish. The lifter will be placed in a different category once the Transgender Division is introduced with a new policy.
4. Drug testing results have not been completed and will take about another week to come back from the lab. As a drug test failure invalidates the lifts, we will need to wait for the results of the drug tests to determine if the lifts can be counted at all under our current set of rules.
Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies tweeted: “This is a trans woman a male body with male physiology setting a world record & winning a woman’s event in America in powerlifting. A woman with female biology cannot compete.. it’s a pointless unfair playing field.”
Double Olympic champion runner Kelly Holmes replied: “It’s a bloody joke and all getting ready for biological women to boycott certain events. Have a trans category if need be but even better a trans games. Otherwise I’m starting to worry about the backlash and abuse that the trans community will get from spectators. It will happen!”
originally posted by: midnightstar
Looks to me like someone figered out doing the sex change gives them a major advantage .
as hard as it is to believe my guess is Man are doing this to cheat the system .
After all we are talking about world records are we not and along with that comes athletic sponsorship and BIG money
originally posted by: midnightstar
Looks to me like someone figered out doing the sex change gives them a major advantage .
as hard as it is to believe my guess is Man are doing this to cheat the system .
After all we are talking about world records are we not and along with that comes athletic sponsorship and BIG money
originally posted by: AndyFromMichigan
originally posted by: midnightstar
Looks to me like someone figered out doing the sex change gives them a major advantage .
as hard as it is to believe my guess is Man are doing this to cheat the system .
After all we are talking about world records are we not and along with that comes athletic sponsorship and BIG money
I suspect that almost none of these "transgender" athletes ever get a sex change. They're just men who realized that they can game the system by claiming to be a woman.
Notice that female-to-male transgender athletes are rare, to the point of near-nonexistence. It's because they'd be at a major disadvantage competing against men, so they remain female.
You either compete against whatever your chromosome pairing dictate you are here in reality land, constrained by the same drug testing and hormone testing as normal, mentally healthy athletes in your biological gender group, or you don't participate at all, PERIOD.
originally posted by: Jonjonj
originally posted by: midnightstar
Looks to me like someone figered out doing the sex change gives them a major advantage .
as hard as it is to believe my guess is Man are doing this to cheat the system .
After all we are talking about world records are we not and along with that comes athletic sponsorship and BIG money
So money truly is the root of all evil? I don't doubt it, I just find it incredibly sad that in order to gain money, someone would be willing to basically change their whole being.
As another poster wrote, good! It's about time this s@@@ got knocked on the head, it's preposterous and the only thing more preposterous is that we actually have to debate it.