JonnyF

So you'd put a 140lb female in a boxing ring with Subriel Matias? Or a 175lb female in with Artur Beterbiev? 😃 Any governing body that sanctioned such a fight would likely end up on charges of involuntary manslaughter. It's lunacy to even suggest that men and women of an equal weight should compete in a sport like boxing.

Greenwich Park... Lovely. Many a lazy day spent there with Uni friends having a cheeky joint, and only a short walk to The Princess of Wales overlooking the common. It really depends what you call Elite sport. I would classify it as either Pro or Amateur. Pro sport focuses on profit, the clue is in the name. However, I wouldn't support biological men competing against women in amateur sport either. We need to encourage a level playing field for girls and women, not send them out onto a Rugby field on a Sunday morning with a bloke with an identity crisis that is likely to injure them due to the disparity in physical strength (and possible psychological issues).

Ass roots sports? I could certainly "get behind" women's involvement in that...😃 Most elite sports revolve around money. Obviously organizing one of your cycles round the park for the local WI group would probably only require costs to be covered.

Agree. Without the ignorance of the plebs, the fear mongering by the elites would quickly fail. Of course, there are certain plebs who also know it's simply a tool, but go along with it because it suits their agenda. Thatcher saw it decades ago.

Not surprising really. The law is designed to silence Yousaf's political/ideological enemies. I doubt Hamas supporters fall into that group. Quite the opposite I'd imagine.

Fear is a great way to control people. Possibly the best way. Unfortunately for the Doomsday cult, climate related deaths are at an all time low. They won't tell you that though, especially The BBC. https://www.wsj.com/articles/climate-activists-disasters-fire-storms-deaths-change-cop26-glasgow-global-warming-11635973538

I'm sure Biden will put Latinos straight on what it means to be Latino. Just like he did with black Americans. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2020/may/22/joe-biden-charlamagne-you-aint-black-trump-video

Agree in principle. But if you just use "woman", you get all the "trans women are women" garbage.

Actually they are based on fact. Women's football is miles behind the men's game. https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/a-dallas-fc-under-15-boys-squad-beat-the-u-s-womens-national-team-in-a-scrimmage/

Yeah I was so glad to see the back of Ardern. Typical Lefty, pretending to #bekind while bringing in all types of authoritarianism and stabbing her own citizens in the back for virtue signalling points. She went full on 1984 with her "Single source of truth" speech. I'm surprised she didn't have it blaring out on repeat on loudspeakers all over Auckland. https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/07/government-is-not-the-divine-source-of-truth/

Catholics maybe?

Very intolerant/authoritarian leadership. Almost as bad as Scotland.

A wise move, but possibly too late. Another one bites the dust. Just like the UK, too much immigration (especially low quality immigrants) causes multiple problems for the indigenous population. Great for providing cheap labour to multinationals though. Oh, and lots of self congratulatory back slapping material for "Liberal" dinner parties.

Actually men are better at darts (and many other non physical sports) due to concentration levels (single tasking), spatial awareness, judgement of distance etc. https://www.mdx.ac.uk/news/2023/02/linda-duffy-darts-psychology#:~:text=ex-darts pro-,Men are 'better at throwing sports due to concentration skills,academic and ex-darts pro&text=Men are often better than,one darts player turned psychologist. Men and Women are just different. Physically, Psychologically etc. That's why sports have been separated since the beginning of sports. Progressives always want to change things, even if it's for the worse. They seem to be taking race relations back about 5 decades at the moment with Critical Race Theory and Identity Politics. Back to sports that could be mixed sex, perhaps they could introduce a sport which involves multi tasking mundane jobs? Or possibly some kind of 48 hour endurance arguing contest? Women could probably dominate that 😃.

There would be enough athletes willing to participate. I'm sure of that given the drama/attention it would bring to the participants. But the standard would be so low as to be laughable. It would make a mockery of the competition. Any Thomasina, Dickette or Harriana would be able to get their 5 minutes of fame by running the 100 metres in a wig in 15 seconds.

My point is that leaving the EU clearly is not the reason for this since it was even lower when we were still in it. Before we even voted to leave. You have cherry picked one negative from the article, and even that statistic was worse in 2013 when we were still a member of the EU. 😄

It's not as easy as that. Can you imagine if the Olympics had 3 categories instead of 2 for every event? It would drag on for an extra 8 days. If they wanted separate categories for trans men as well as trans women that's an extra 16 days. For what? To appease a tiny minority who are already able to compete against people the same sex as them.

"In nearly 11 years". 2013. Way before we left the EU.

It's one level above a charity fun run. In elite, monitored, regulated cycling men are around 12% faster then women cyclists. Yet miraculously in this unregulated event a woman won by a huge margin. 😄 I'm surprised she didn't quote the local egg and spoon race on the village green. https://www.cyclingweekly.com/fitness/cycling-and-gender-how-and-why-male-and-female-cyclists-need-to-train-differently-344365

Yes, competing against people the same sex as them as to be fair and competitive.

Why should I have to switch channels to pander to such a small, vocal minority?

Tough, but "bikepacking" is hardly a serious competition. They probably don't even check up on the competitors. Could have been using a car/van like this woman. https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/ultra-marathon-runner-disqualified-after-allegedly-cheating-car/story?id=98688689 Besides, if we have a category for trans people then soon enough we'd have to have trans commentators, trans referees, trans pundits even. Ain't nobody wanna hear dat. It's bad enough having women commentating on football without having trans women.

Because no doubt the open categories would demand the same amount of prize money, media coverage etc. when in reality it would be a handful of transwomen that aren't good enough to compete in the men's category. Events like Wimbledon have enough trouble getting through all the matches already, without pandering to the wishes of a tiny minority by introducing a third category. Plus then you'd have the likes of BBC Sport pushing trans sport like they do now with the WSL etc. Nothing worse than clicking on "Chelsea beat Man Utd" to find out they're actually talking about the women's game and the score was 12-0 including 3 own goals. 😃

Thanks, I appreciate it. For his past offenses, I think a non crime hate incident is more likely. However, I suspect this will not be the last time Yousaf exposes himself as a racist bigot, so I will be sure to report him the next time he goes on one of his rants.

Yes I reported Yousaf's racism. I considered it my duty. However, I am not involved in the white nationalist movement. In fact the only nationalist I know on here is RuamRudy himself, a proud Scottish Nationalist.😄 Once again, the left are what they accuse you of being. I am aware of that. The Scottish Police requested we report incidents of hate crime. I did so. If they don't want people to report it, why ask them to? They can still put a non crime hate incident on his record, and I suggested this when I reported his vile, racist rant. Opposing racism is not showing solidarity with "unsavoury types" although given your stereotyping of Jews today on another thread I can see why you might consider that to be the case. I abhor all forms of racism (including anti-semitism) and I consider Yousaf's anti-white rant to be racist so I did not consider it a waste of my time, in fact I was happy to take a stand against his bigotry. Now if I was to show solidarity with a leftist anti-semite, I would agree that would be unsavoury.