Who’s exclooosionary now?
Belfast Pride wants to see more women injured by men in women’s sports.
Ulster Rugby will not be allowed to march in Belfast’s Pride parade because of the ban on transgender women playing in female contact rugby games. The organisers of the Pride parade said any group which was “engaging in trans exclusionary practices” would not be permitted to participate in the march.
But of course keeping men out of women’s rugby isn’t a “trans exclusionary” practice, it’s a male exclusionary practice in women’s sports. Women should be allowed to have their own sports, because otherwise they can’t have any sports at all.
In August 2022, the IRFU said only rugby players whose sex was recorded as female at birth would be allowed to compete in the female category. At the time, the IRFU said its ban was based on “medical and scientific evidence”. It said there were “physical differences between those people whose sex was assigned as male and those as female at birth”. The IRFU added that “advantages in strength, stamina and physique brought about by male puberty are significant and retained even after testosterone suppression”.
As everyone knows and always has known, but we’re supposed to pretend it’s all up in the air.
Ulster Rugby was one of many organisations which applied to take in the annual Pride parade through the city on 29 July. Following its exclusion, Belfast’s Pride organisers described their festival as “unapologetically trans inclusive”.
“Trans, non-binary and gender-diverse people have helped lead and shape not only the Pride movement, but the wider LGBTQIA+ civil rights movement, and are an integral part of our community and wider society,” they added. “We believe trans, non-binary and gender- diverse people should be supported, accepted and celebrated within families, communities and across wider society.”
But they can be all that without invading women’s sports.
Men breastfeed and play women’s sports; meanwhile the world burns burns burns:
https://climateandeconomy.com/2023/07/08/8th-july-2023-todays-round-up-of-climate-news/
For the fourth day in a row, Earth has broken or equalled its hottest average temperature record.
Last month was the planet’s hottest June on record by a huge margin
Why a sudden surge of broken heat records is scaring scientists.
“…the hot conditions are developing too quickly, and across more of the planet, to be explained solely by El Niño.”
*HISTORIC EVENT*
“Today Adrar in Algeria recorded a MIN temperature of 39.6C [103.3F]. This is the highest Minimum Temp ever recorded in African climatic history.”
So it goes.
It sometimes seems to me that at least one member of a women’s sporting club should decide to “identify as a man” in order to forestall any accusation that the club is “trans-exclusionary.”
They could draw straws if nobody volunteers.
Let’s have a gushing puff piece about all the trans men playing contact rugby, or American football, or basketball, or soccer.
This whole Pride thing has got to be heartbreaking for the gays and lesbians who worked so hard to gain acceptance in the 1990’s during the AIDs crisis of the 80’s. There were people proposing that all gays be sent to an island where they couldn’t spread the HIV virus to innocent people, and all those preachers talking about how God was using AIDs to punish gays for their sin (and those who caught it from transfusions were just collateral damage.) Pride was an opportunity to breathe and to BE among people who wouldn’t judge them for their sexual orientation, but now, it is for Trans first and foremost in all things, and if women are shoved aside (yes, even Lesbians, the “L” in LGBTQIA2+,) well that just can’t be helped in the name of inclusion.
And same-sex attraction is once again the love that dare not speak its name.
Jeezus. Thank you for the link.
@Papito #5,
More like sex attraction is the love that dares not speak its name.