Jackson Jambalaya

Why do officials even let them compete? We need a Gandalf to say "You shall not pass!"

So the "women can do everything as well as men can" argument is settled at this point huh

Who cares?

"Who cares?", all the women that fought for women's equality, that's who. At least you would think they would care, but either they don't, or their voices are being suppressed.

Won't someone protect these poor 45-49 year olds?

Imagine getting all bent out of shape about the results of a 45-49 year old age group swimming competition.

Fewer people will be paying attention to this tansgender distraction when the shelves start running bare and you have to either do without or pay triple to the hoarders on FB marketplace.

Says someone without daughters

Easy fix. Start a third class of competition - male, female and other. Let them compete amongst themselves just as men and women always have.

Sigh...there is no question that men the ability to develop stronger upper body strength and are generally taller. That doesn't necessarily mean that some girls can't compete with boys in traditionally male sports. Throughout grades 1-12 we'd had many girls who were better golfers, better basketball guards and were better at kicking and throwing and hitting sport balls than the guys. The question should have always been science based. At what point in hormone therapy and surgery is genetic differences erased? And, frankly, long ago, more than a few female athletes looked more like guys and then there were the steroid/testosterone scandals. It has always been true that doctors and midwives don't always get a babies gender right at birth. Some of you guys start out and stay rather small just as some girls have larger organs. It can be harder still in premature babies. This out of womb ID is medieval. We have better ways of determining gender now. Indeed, we could test for whether the athlete has fully " transitioned" or prove if it's even possible to fully transition. This is just crazy, politics playing on fear, ignorance, and party loyalty rather than looking for rational solutions.
Why don't we just do a genetic test instead at birth and now? Then those kids who were wrongly identified wouldn't be frustrated, those with physical issues could be accurately and properly treated and those with psychological identity issues could receive counseling. As for those of you who can't cope with a complex and changing world, trying learning by reading non-fiction books written by experts or finding someone who can educate you so you'll understand.

I approve of all of this. It is constant reminder that men are better than women at anything they can conceive of doing. Except for procreation of the human race. Nobody can do that better than women. So instead of despising it. Women should embrace it and aspire to be the best and most prolific mothers they can be. Their race needs them more than the corporate world. More than academia and government. More than anything. Their cats won’t be there to take care of them when they are old. If they don’t have kids then it will be some immigrant.

"we"?
It is clear that this situation is deliberately being fostered, in order to CREATE A BACKLASH. I was wondering what sort of backlash was hoped-for.
"we" should MANDATE GENETIC TESTING FOR ALL NEWBORNS, huh?

Maybe, then, "we", at some time in the future, use that information for no-telling-what. As someone who's been studying the Holocaust, since I was 17, I've got an inkling what "we" may have in mind, for what to do do with all that centrally-stored genetic information.

Thanks for helping solve the mystery (the 'What are They Planning to DO with the Engineered Backlash' mystery).

I can't get my head around how twisted a man's mind must be to get any satisfaction at all out out beating women in athletic competition. These guys are going to cause some serious problems at some point in their lives. They are sick and need help instead of encouragement..

Tequila sunrise ?

Just evil. Either he competes as a male as he was born, or he does not compete. Period.

These "guys" are pussies. They realize they can't compete against their peers so they decide to compete against women. They have no balls, literally and figuratively.

Mental Illness encouraged and running amuck, pardon the pun.

That's not a pun.
A pun is a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word.
"his first puzzle punned on composers, with answers like “Handel with care” and “Haydn go seek”"

You're not saying you think the DNA of someone who has "transitioned" changes, are you? I hope not. It doesn't.

Does anyone really even care about women’s sports?
They’re terrible, there’s no records being made, not without the qualifier that it was made by a woman.
If these trans folks were terrible at sports it sounds to me like they’re in the right division