Hannah Mouncey

[Thryleon]

And what are the chances of Nortje deciding that he’s really female?  Would he make more money playing cricket as a she?  Would he even be able to play cricket competitively after gender reassignment?

170 Australians identified as transgender in the 2016 census.  That’s probably a gross underestimate but, even if it was 170,000, that’s a minuscule percentage of our population.  Even so, of my projected 100,000 male to female transgender folk, how many would have the ability and desire to play competitive sport?

I don’t think that transgender females should be competing against biological females and I don’t think many transgender males would have a competitive advantage over biological males. Some transgender females, Hannah Mouncey for example, and some activists maintain that not allowing transgender females to take part in female sport is discrimination.  It probably is but, as others have suggested, it’s justifiable discrimination because it involves health and safety and fairness.

I reckon that at least 95% of transgender females have absolutely no desire to use their male physique to gain an advantage in any competitive sport.  Of the remainder, I doubt very much that any were motivated to transition by the lure of making their fortune beating up on female athletes.

In other words, transgender athletes gaining an unfair advantage over biological females is a non-issue.  By all means ban transgender athletes from gendered competitions.  Sadly, anti-transgender hysteria provides fertile ground for neo-nazi anti-LBQTI+ propaganda.

Neo-nazi?

There is a very different scenario to a fascist regime and being against transgenderism.  I personally don't view the avenue as being healthy for anybody because it involves not accepting your body and self mutilation on a level that I personally deem to be unscientific in the way its diagnosed and then represented.

The root to happiness is accepting things for what they are particularly when it comes to body image and for some reason trans is one avenue where people cannot accept their body for what it is and everyone is forced to comply.  Not everyone will be a supermodel, and not everyone is gifted with athletic abilities.  Some are born autistic but that doesn't mean they can be something they aren't, and it also means that you embrace the body you were gifted with rather than fight against it.  There are some grey spots in that mix but they're outliers and rather than go into this avenue where people are choosing what gender they are, we should be a little more understanding of their plight rather than having to have them with labels of transgenderism.

I recognise that some people have a belief that they are in the wrong body but this belief is an identity struggle and not capable of being truly tested and is subjective not objective in how its being applied and then you simply have people play acting and donning some labels rather than appreciating the physiological experience of being a gender and what that means.

I am a firm believer that the biological experience is more capable of shaping someone's identity that anything else and I entertained the transgender element of identity to a point and then realised that its social engineering dressed in mental health wellness rather than a true road to happiness and the more society fights people on this front the worse off we are.