there once was a dream of transition. the dream was, you transition and become just another woman. you put transition behind you, and move on.
when you come out as a transgender athlete, three things happen all at once.
- you lose stealth
- you become known as a transgender
- everyone knows you were born male, and used medicine and plastic surgery to become a transgender
what was the point of transitioning?
unless… being known as transgender is what you wanted from the beginning.
and who really wins, when a transgender woman beats born females in female sports competitions?
certainly not the females you have advantages over.
once you become known as a transgender athlete you can’t escape it. a transgender beating a born female is not a victory for women, it’s a victory for you.
have you no shame at all? of course not, or you wouldn’t have competed against women in the first place.
you also earn the resentment of the women you supposedly wanted to be like.
you do realise that is not a glorious victory to beat born females when you have male biomechanical advantages. it is cheating. so what is there to celebrate?
it is hugely narcissistic, and self-glorifying to compete against born women.
the fact of the matter is, transition does not level the playing field. ask me how I know.
also, whatever happened to stealth? you know, mainstreaming as a woman, not a transwoman?
the only people who benefit from transgender wins over normal females, are transgenders.
where is the glory in that?
it must be that you don’t identify as a woman at all, but as a transwoman.
so, what was the point of your transition, unless it was to deliberately become a transgender woman, and to be known for being transgender?
permit me to explain something,
as a public transgender, everyone who knows you, doesn’t think of you as “just another female”. their impression of you is tainted from the outset with the knowledge that you were born and raised as a male, and then at some point, you used your privilege to modify your body.
you can’t escape that. that is what you become known for.
in my opinion, outing yourself as a transgender publicly, means you failed transition.
clearly, in your mind, the point of transitioning was to be a transgender for the rest of your life.
and now you are using your transgender advantages over born females, making a total mockery of sex-segregated sports and fair competition.
you will go down in history for doing that.
i hope you are proud of yourself.
Plastic Girl 
The rationale in changing the IOC rules was to sidestep the endless discussion of sex criteria that has continued for decades, particularly since the Castor Semenya case in 2008. (Semenya is an unusual African intersex who competed as a woman.) Somewhere along the way the IOC forgot that it was addressing rare ambiguities.
As a result, the prototcol got completely subverted by self-appointed ‘trans’ activists, the kind of people who peddle the line that you don’t actually have to have a female physique or female history to be a woman. One of the champions of this curious point-of-view is an athlete in Portland, OR who after decades of competing as a man, began to enter USATF women’s events when she was in her fifties:
http://www.outsports.com/2016/1/21/10812404/transgender-ioc-policy-new-olympics
thanks for commenting with this insight, Sally. what i think the trans movement is totally missing is that, subverting sports science short-term in the name of “inclusion” will, over the long-term, create enormous friction, tension, and resentment from born-females.
this has already been happening on social media like Facebook and Twitter with regards to gender-critical feminism and radical feminist critique of transgenderists, but the IOC ruling up the stakes significantly.
when transwomen begin placing gold, silver and bronze medals against born females, there will be consequences to the trans movement.
i for one, would deeply resent having my medal taken from me, by a bornmale with all their advantages.
this is colonisation by born-males, of a female space and female entitlement.
this does not create a bridge of understanding between transwomen and bornfemales, it breaks bridges.
currently, born females outnumber transgendered males significantly.
i can only hope that amazon women will rise up in outrage and protests.
one can assume that is what transwomen want as well, or they would not be so focused on this issue.
it may take time, but as a society we are headed for a public showdown over this. i look forward to seeing my sisters holding protest signs and demonstrating against transwomen colonisation of female sports.
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