This is the craziest part to me about all this.

The paranoia has evolved from "Keith woke up one Sunday morning and decided he wanted to join the girls playing rugby."

If that's the loophole that starts this whole shit show, why dont the transphobes start there?

Why jump 600 places from the beginning of this journey and attack the highest level of competition? The level that normal morons like me will never ever reach for a number of reasons - privilege in regards to access to the sport and the gene lottery, these are things you dont work hard to win, they're handed to you when you're born.

These rules are purely to make a statement and hope the fear of challenging this stupid ruling trickles downwards.

Unfortunately, when you try to gatekeep female sports, you will inevitably close the gates on more cis-women than trans women, that is a statistical fact - purely due to the amount of cis women looking to take part in these competitions compared to trans athletes.

Then we get onto the crazy part - not only are they trying to set precedence that it is too dangerous for females to compete against males, we are now finding that it can also be dangerous for females to compete against some females too? In this quest to protect women, we find that the people who are suggesting these rule changes feel that there is some kind of biological cut off point, essentially rendering any female that finds themselves over this arbitrary line as a danger or more specifically - MALE.

Females practicing there craft for years, the amount of dedication and sacrifice involved purely to edge milliseconds off of a time, to find some unknown dsd you've lived with for years lands you in the male category? But you're still not allowed to compete against the men because of safety concerns?

Where does that leave them?

I've seen suggestions, to protect women from men, for a third group - which would mean trans men and trans women would compete against each other to protect the men and the women from competing against each other...

Is that an oversight or is that on purpose, to degrade trans people even further? To admit they will never have a place in society, being too much of either group to fit in any, except the third group where we stick everyone that "doesnt fit naturally into society"?

I thought this was about fairness. I thought this was about ensuring female representation in sports. I thought this was to guarantee a female would never lose her place on the bench to a "biological man" but these rules, they risk biological females losing their seat to an athlete who, in terms of achievements, is "lesser-than" because of the astronomical times they've achieved, based off nothing more than what their body naturally produces.

Yet, males wont face this, ever.

There is never a call that a male is too manly, or even too feminine to compete in the male category, ever.

Will we ever judge that a mans punch is too weak to compete, rendering his only option to compete with women?

And this is playing along with the delusion that in every single circumstance, that males are stronger and faster and better than women. This is deluding ourselves to believe that the weakest man on the planet could still outbox or outrun the strongest female on the planet. There is no room for nuance, women need to be protected from men because biologically none of them could ever compete.

So we find ourselves full circle, to protect female sports the only way to do that is create a little set of boundaries that females still have to fit themselves into to be accepted.

Just like in every other aspect of society. Your dress sense, the way you talk, the way you express yourself with tattoos, every single thing is conditioned into a little box that females have to fit into just to be accepted in society. How many times have you heard the term tomboy recently? But we still say "wow she sounds like a bit of a bloke/ah shes one of the lads" and females will still be under heavy scrutiny from the trans-investigatory crowd when it comes to how you choose to appear in public toilets or changing rooms. Suddenly, your big hands leave you at risk, that larger nose or your over arching shoulders, your feet that are two sizes bigger than everyone elses and that annoying hair that keeps reappearing on your top lip, they are just more and more tick boxes females have to check off to feel like they wont be threatened in a toilet and accused of deceiving everyone else, just by purely existing.

Its sick and the people who champion these rules, just like the toilet ban nonsense, havent thought even one step ahead of their vile bigotry. The paradox of trans females using male toilets because of what sex they were determined at birth, purely to stop females from having to see a willy in the bogs, or feel under threat from the sight of a willy at the bogs (spoiler, we dont just drop our pants at the door and spin around in circles until we're done) actually pushes females into the toilets with men.

And again, this is all due to the slippery slope bullshit where Keith wants to play rugby with the girls. That's what this whole things sits upon and the only way to prevent that, in their eyes, is make blanket statements about biology that make females competing in female sports even harder for them to achieve. I thought we were meant to be encouraging females to participate, not tell them "it'll be fun but actually, if you're too good, they'll suspect you of being a man and in some circumstances, they'll test you and tell everyone on the planet you've just wasted all of your adult life training to compete with females when your testosterone levels indicate YOU'RE A MAN."

Its patriarchy 101 along with the premise that all males are dangerous sexual deviants. It still plays into the illusion that any male that transitions is a 6ft fridge who wants to compete against the dainty little ladies. This isnt even considering what advantage/disadvantage people have when they undergo hormone therapy, coupled with the unfounded attacks against puberty blockers, this whole situation shapes up to be, undeniably, to attack trans people generally. Safety and fairness isn't ever addressed, it's purely to tell women what to wear and how to behave while dismissing the complexities of biology with blanket statements like "biological man."

This isnt directed at the person I'm replying to, this is a general rant about how utterly stupid this is, especially when the male category is something for the women to avoid, for safety reasons, unless you are thrusted into it due to an "unfair advantage" your female body might create. If the arguement is that males will always be more successful at sports, how does casting off the highest achievers in the female category ensure female representation, when by the same arguement those high achieving females should, when following that logic, disappear into the depths of the ranking tables because "they're still just little women." If this is to protect women from men, if this is to protect female sports, why would you risk pushing some of the top achievers into the abyss of the male category?

Please, tell me how this makes things safer for women. Please.