Sport at elite and amateur level offers so many life benefits. Girls need to see it to be it. I'm disgusted by patently mediocre Male athletes taken the laurels that by right and striving belong to females. We all see it. We all know. We won't be compelled to validate this misogynists' fantaay.
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Anonymous
7 years ago
People are free to be who they want to be but sport is about fairness and those lines are blurred when you allow someone who has previously been (and even competed as) the opposite gender, to compete as a transgender athlete.
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Lloyd Shaw
7 years ago
Unfortunately deeply unhappy people who are also sociopaths, will always find a way to bully others.
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Anna McCormack
7 years ago
Be fair to women sportspeople!
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Patricia Spencer
7 years ago
It's the most outrageous and blatant abuse of access and opportunity that I have ever witnessed. Please stop allowing transwomen into female sports competitions.
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Kelly Knowles
7 years ago
Transgender women should not be competing against cis women. It is grossly unfair. A transgender women clearly has a strength based advantage against a cis woman.
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Anonymous
7 years ago
This is a very difficult situation, especially for men who have transitioned and just want to get on with life.
Women would generally not succeed in open competition and so we have rightly set up competitions for Women. We are in danger of eradicating women’s sport if we water down these protections.
This will have an impact on some men who have transitioned to women, and that is unavoidable and preferable to a world where women can’t compete.
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Philip Charles
7 years ago
These men competing against women should be ashamed of themselves. It's a farce and a disgrace.
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Anonymous
7 years ago
absolutely agree. sport should be categorized by sex, not gender identity.
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Anonymous
7 years ago
total agree with this, nothing against transgender people, in every day life they should be free to live their lives free of judgement and bigotry, they are not affecting anyone else so they can do whatever they like and everyone else should just leave them the hell alone and be kind, to everyone ,,, sport, however is different, men spending their lives as men then changing to female have massive and unfair advantages over women, and to those who say they don't, why are there no female to male transitioners competing in mens events? Because they can't compete, they can't even get close. Case closed. Stop the madness.
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Jennifer Chapman
7 years ago
It's great if transgender want to train with women as a woman but not competitively, it's simply unfair to women who train so hard without the physical advantages the transgender people have.
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Judith Pattison
7 years ago
It's time for New Zealand to take a stand on this outrageously unfair practice!
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Anonymous
7 years ago
I oppose self declaration of sex identity. I support the rights of females. I affirm every single person's right to be treated well.
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Anonymous
7 years ago
Biological males should never have been allowed to compete in female sport. It's against science. It's unfair. It will kill female sport. It's anti-women
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Paula brasovan
7 years ago
Keep it simple. Sex and not identity of gender or otherwise...: what if I become age fluid and as a 30 year old say I identify as a 45 year old woman and then clean up the medals in this age group!????? Just an example...
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Ann
7 years ago
Women have fought hard enough to claim the space that they have in sports. It should not be taken away by men who ID as women.
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Gayleen Putt
7 years ago
Men are totally different to women full stop! Why have sports allowed themselves to be bullied by a minority thereby disadvantaging the majority?
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Lynnette Boswell
7 years ago
Unfair advantage
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Daniela
7 years ago
Transgender woman must not be allowed to play against women in sports. No matter the hormone levels they've got, muscle memory will always benefit them
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Liam Walsh
7 years ago
Standing with the women who have faced huge amounts of vitriol and threatening behaviour over raising this and other issues concerning their rights being challenged by extremists within the transgender movement
Sport at elite and amateur level offers so many life benefits. Girls need to see it to be it. I'm disgusted by patently mediocre Male athletes taken the laurels that by right and striving belong to females. We all see it. We all know. We won't be compelled to validate this misogynists' fantaay.
People are free to be who they want to be but sport is about fairness and those lines are blurred when you allow someone who has previously been (and even competed as) the opposite gender, to compete as a transgender athlete.
Unfortunately deeply unhappy people who are also sociopaths, will always find a way to bully others.
Be fair to women sportspeople!
It's the most outrageous and blatant abuse of access and opportunity that I have ever witnessed. Please stop allowing transwomen into female sports competitions.
Transgender women should not be competing against cis women. It is grossly unfair. A transgender women clearly has a strength based advantage against a cis woman.
This is a very difficult situation, especially for men who have transitioned and just want to get on with life. Women would generally not succeed in open competition and so we have rightly set up competitions for Women. We are in danger of eradicating women’s sport if we water down these protections. This will have an impact on some men who have transitioned to women, and that is unavoidable and preferable to a world where women can’t compete.
These men competing against women should be ashamed of themselves. It's a farce and a disgrace.
absolutely agree. sport should be categorized by sex, not gender identity.
total agree with this, nothing against transgender people, in every day life they should be free to live their lives free of judgement and bigotry, they are not affecting anyone else so they can do whatever they like and everyone else should just leave them the hell alone and be kind, to everyone ,,, sport, however is different, men spending their lives as men then changing to female have massive and unfair advantages over women, and to those who say they don't, why are there no female to male transitioners competing in mens events? Because they can't compete, they can't even get close. Case closed. Stop the madness.
It's great if transgender want to train with women as a woman but not competitively, it's simply unfair to women who train so hard without the physical advantages the transgender people have.
It's time for New Zealand to take a stand on this outrageously unfair practice!
I oppose self declaration of sex identity. I support the rights of females. I affirm every single person's right to be treated well.
Biological males should never have been allowed to compete in female sport. It's against science. It's unfair. It will kill female sport. It's anti-women
Keep it simple. Sex and not identity of gender or otherwise...: what if I become age fluid and as a 30 year old say I identify as a 45 year old woman and then clean up the medals in this age group!????? Just an example...
Women have fought hard enough to claim the space that they have in sports. It should not be taken away by men who ID as women.
Men are totally different to women full stop! Why have sports allowed themselves to be bullied by a minority thereby disadvantaging the majority?
Unfair advantage
Transgender woman must not be allowed to play against women in sports. No matter the hormone levels they've got, muscle memory will always benefit them
Standing with the women who have faced huge amounts of vitriol and threatening behaviour over raising this and other issues concerning their rights being challenged by extremists within the transgender movement