Trans Archer Banned from Women's Competition After Winning TX State

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[–]Canbot 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

After winning. So, now that the competition is over he was banned. WTF.

This is most likely propaganda to push the narrative that the right wants trannies banned not for thier unfair advantage but because of some unjustified bias. Most people think that a man will not have much of an advantage over a woman in this sport, that is why it was chosen.

Meanwhile they allow it in MMA where trannies are hospitalizing, and likely permanently injuring women.

[–]portace 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

yup, trying to keep up the left vs right conflict..great material for shills like Steven Crowder, Ben Shapiro and Charlie Kirk to rant about

[–]BossBrick 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Good trans need their own leagues

[–]aaarrgh 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

That makes 2 new leagues then.

[–]AXXA[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It'd be interesting to see how one new league would play out.

[–]CleverFoolOfEarth 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Wussy deranged men with body mods that make them worse at sports vs. weird chicks on 'roids, hmmm, I reckon it'd depend on what sport and that in some the male athletic advantage would win out but in others it'd be a toss-up.

[–]IkeConn 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

OMG. A sport that shouldn't have sex based teams but skill based teams and allow trannies. I'm shocked.

[–][deleted] 12 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Archery requires a lot of upper body strength and men have broader shoulders giving them longer draws. So men still definitely have an advantage in archery.

[–]aaarrgh 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Men are simply the better at any sport. You can always blame nature.

[–]Rusty_Foster 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Women are weak and fragile, and can't bulk up muscles as much as men without steroids.

[–]sproketboy 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I love how they refer to it as "a man living as a woman" and refers to it as "he". LOL

[–]SMCAB 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

My pronouns are mental illness and lampshade.

[–]filbs111 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Reading the article, the individual in question sounds half reasonable:

"I don’t believe that Lia should have been swimming in the women’s category"

but half unreasonable:

“There’s no physical advantages in archery or any precision sport.”

I know little about archery, but, if there really is no (physical) advantage for chaps, why is there a separate women's competition?

Some opinions from archers here. (sorry for reddit) https://www.reddit.com/r/olympics/comments/4wlzmm/why_do_events_like_shooting_and_archery_have_male/

[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

tl;dr my stance: it's a toss up

The KXAN article this one links to has a ton more details.

It seems there is lots of disagreement. This state committee spent quite awhile making this decision and came up unanimous, but other boards challenged and disagree. They mention the national committee has different rules and a new policy of the national level intents to require testing for maximum testosterone levels. They mention the international committee balks at subjecting contestants to testing and is very inclusive. Yet, the state highlights that the formal rules allow them to make their own best judgements for their local competitions.

The article mentions the disqualified archer is a disabled Army veteran, but doesn't suggest that disability is a disadvantage. It also mentioned the disqualified archer only beat the second place competitor by 1 point. Yet, in comparison the score would be 6th place on the men's leader-board. The state board also defends its self partially by suggesting their Texas competition records show “men setting higher records in nearly every division and style of archery,” while suggesting a similar Olympic disparity.

There seems to be an argument that this is a skill based game, with no real physical advantage. There also is a contradicting argument that males have a longer arms and more strength, resulting in an advantage with draw length and draw weight, counteracting wind and distance challenges.

Logically, this all seems a toss up to me, yet I do lean towards thinking modern compound bows, with their technical features, when to adjust to the specific user, should at least somewhat close the gaps. I don't think we are talking about simple long bows here. Anecdotally, the few times I used to well tuned compound bow, with all the bells and whistles, it felt like it took all the skill and physical challenge out of it and basically shot for me. I, of course, was not competing, or even very good at it, even while figuratively 'pressing the bull's eye button.'