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<blockquote data-quote="Bill" data-source="post: 942687" data-attributes="member: 79436"><p>How is it bullshit ?</p><p></p><p>If it's a mens' event, then only men should be allowed to compete.</p><p></p><p>If people other than men are going to be allowed to compete in an event then the eligibility criteria for the event needs to change.</p><p></p><p>Regardless though, whilst Semenya (I've only just realised how ironic that name is btw) is no doubt an excellent athlete, she wouldn't be competitive in elite sport if it was open to all regardless of gender, so at a professional level I don't see that it's an issue.</p><p></p><p>The solutions appear to be:</p><p></p><p>1. do away with womens' athletics completely and have open events.</p><p>2. change the mens and womens categories to those with more than and less than a certain level of testosterone (not so catchy)</p><p>3. as 2 but keep the name mens and womens</p><p>4. introduce a third event (would be a farce imo)</p><p></p><p>they are going down road 2 at the moment, which to me is the only sensible solution. to do otherwise would be to wreck athletics and other sports which have worked perfectly well for goodness knows how long.</p><p></p><p>At the end of the day, having events for men and for women is in today's world discriminatory, and that's the nub of the problem. But if it's done away with and just an open event for all is provided, then that essentially means the end of elite sport for women, which would be completely peverse. So on this basis the arbitrators' ruling that the situation is discriminatory but at the same time reasonable, is itself both understandable and reasonable, even if on the face of it it goes against commonly accepted modern beliefs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bill, post: 942687, member: 79436"] How is it bullshit ? If it's a mens' event, then only men should be allowed to compete. If people other than men are going to be allowed to compete in an event then the eligibility criteria for the event needs to change. Regardless though, whilst Semenya (I've only just realised how ironic that name is btw) is no doubt an excellent athlete, she wouldn't be competitive in elite sport if it was open to all regardless of gender, so at a professional level I don't see that it's an issue. The solutions appear to be: 1. do away with womens' athletics completely and have open events. 2. change the mens and womens categories to those with more than and less than a certain level of testosterone (not so catchy) 3. as 2 but keep the name mens and womens 4. introduce a third event (would be a farce imo) they are going down road 2 at the moment, which to me is the only sensible solution. to do otherwise would be to wreck athletics and other sports which have worked perfectly well for goodness knows how long. At the end of the day, having events for men and for women is in today's world discriminatory, and that's the nub of the problem. But if it's done away with and just an open event for all is provided, then that essentially means the end of elite sport for women, which would be completely peverse. So on this basis the arbitrators' ruling that the situation is discriminatory but at the same time reasonable, is itself both understandable and reasonable, even if on the face of it it goes against commonly accepted modern beliefs. [/QUOTE]
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