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From: Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: JK Rowling Details Cost Of Speaking Out On Trans Issue, Blasts
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On 17/12/2024 01:11, The Horny Goat wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 02:51:18 +0000, Robert Carnegie
> <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm holding off against accepting "Boys are better
>> and will win all of the time" as the entire reason
>> to separate sports players by sex.  Which is not
>> to say that it isn't what happens - depending on
>> the sport.
>>
> Fair enough - but if someone has gone through male puberty and
> subsequently transitioned they've got the male skeleton which DOESN'T
> change with a transition. If Lew Alcindor aka Kareem Abdul-Jabbar were
> to transition at say age 20 he/she would retain their physique and
> presumably their reflexes which had to be outstanding for him to
> achieve what he did on the court.
> 
> Or even a second tier NBA player (aka "journeyman")

So I go back to: "The administrators of
the sport will deal with it.  I will leave
it to them, unless I dislike what they do" -
like forbidding women, worldwide, to play
by the rules of soccer, once it was found
out how good they can get at it, and how
embarrassing that was for men.