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Originally Posted by LessinSF
But is he gender qualified?
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A female colleague thought it was uncouth that they're gender-qualifying Semenya. I passed on the chance to make a "Semenya" tranny joke to point out that gender qualifying exists to protect the women who work their asses off to compete in women's sports. East Germany wasn't trying to pass women off as men, and Manny Ramirez wasn't trying to become a female. Of course, I also think allowing women into the PGA is bad for golf because it's bad for women's golf. Reducing the women's game to only those few who can compete with men (for distance, say) is net bad for women and for girls.
Yeesh. This reads like "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever," so let me say women should be allowed to compete in men's events if they wish, but acknowledge that it will unintentionally diminish the women's events to the JV of the human race, and athletics should not be so, any more than every bantamweight fighter should aspire to be a superweavyweight. Divisions exist to maximize the potential to excel.
