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Men Sweep Both Male And Female Categories In New Zealand Off-Road Bike Race

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Men Sweep Both Male And Female Categories In New Zealand Off-Road Bike Race

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Matt Osborne
Feb 16
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Men Sweep Both Male And Female Categories In New Zealand Off-Road Bike Race

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Right: a man. Left: a man cheating at sports.

What is the material difference between a man cheating at sports and a man named Kate cheating at sports? Someone explain using facts please.

At the Capital Enduro mountain bike race in New Zealand last weekend, men occupied both the male and female spots on top of the winner’s podium.

As seen in the above photos, Kate Weatherly (left, with long hair) and Jesse Cseh (right, sunglasses) are both men. They are almost the same height, and although it is difficult to tell from the photo, I suspect Weatherly has a slightly-larger upper-body than Cseh.

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Both men enjoy immutable advantages in upper-body strength over almost all women. And while the average sex difference in lower-body strength between both men and the average woman is smaller, it is not that much less.

Look at the results of the off-road bike race, for example. Cseh finished the course in 20:33, just 0:08 seconds ahead of the second place male, Latham Collett.

Weatherly finished in 23:48, “beating” the actual women’s champion, Khulan Tumen, by 1:07. If Weatherly had not been allowed to cheat at the race by “identifying” as female, competing instead as his material sex, he would have just missed beating the 52nd place male finisher Rod Barsley by one second. (Check the results for yourself.)

Remember, amateur women paid to take part in this “cisprivilege.” Two women had to stand next to this mediocre male athlete abusing them and smile about it.

This is absolutely poisonous to sporting culture, and to women’s sports especially. Politicians and cultural institutions that have enabled it are going to find out soon enough.

Not because of tRaNsPhOBia, but because human biology is immutably dimorphic.

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The winners of the men's and women's open hard course categories at Capital Enduro this past weekend. Two men are on the top step with an $1100 prize because a male, Kate Weatherly (Anton Weatherly), won the women's event. #NoMalesInWomensSports #SaveWomensSports
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Heuristics are the evolutionary shortcuts in our human brains. For example, everyone notices sex difference. It takes us about 0.2 seconds to “clock” someone with better than 99.9 percent accuracy.

Another heuristic occurs in the monkey dance, the status competition between male primates. All the secondary male sex characteristics brought on by testosterone in adolescence — facial hair, deeper voice, larger muscles, heart and lungs, more efficient hemoglobin, and musculoskeletal advantages for almost all sports, especially combat sports — evolved for the male status contest.

When we observe two men doing the monkey dance, we have another heuristic for fairness. If we see a larger man versus a smaller man, instinct tells us it is unfair. If we see two men of the same size, the potential contest is now fair in everyone’s eyes.

When we see a man fighting a woman, heuristics tell us this is not a fight between equal combatants. We know it is a strong person picking on a weaker one without having to be told.

This judgment happens without thought. Thinking takes too long, in nature, so heuristics are faster than cognition. Instinctive. Whenever we see a male athlete dominating women at their own sports, we instantly know it is unfair.

It takes us 0.2 seconds to see the unfairness. We cannot unsee it. “Transgender acceptance” demands we suppress both of these human heuristics so that Anton can “feel” like he is really Kate.

Transgender sports activists call this “meaningful competition,” a meaningless phrase, and recast “fairness” as ‘being fair to men with gender identities no matter the cost to women.’

Sports philosopher Jon Pike responds that “a fair category in sport is formed on a physiological basis (sex, weight, age) rather than one of gender identity.”

The female category is fair, and justified by fair equality of opportunity for women, thought of as adult human females. Its justification gives the eligibility conditions: female sport is justified as a separate category by the existence of male advantage: hence no one with male advantage (including residual male advantage) should be eligible for female sport. This entails a simple claim about fairness: male advantage is unfair in female sport.

Pike and other defenders of women’s sports face an uphill battle for the perverse reason that they defend the obvious. No one ever had to think about this until five seconds ago, historically speaking.

For 3,000 years of western civilization, women had “the wrong bodies for sports.” Then for about 50 years, women almost achieved sports equality. But now women’s bodies no longer exist, according the “the science,” so we have to give the sports to men.

It is gaslighting abuse.

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“Anyone who can make you repeat absurdities can make you commit atrocities,” Voltaire wrote.

This atrocity against women, the annihilation of their sports, is being made possible by the absurdity of calling Anton Weatherly “a woman.”

He went through a male puberty and got all those athletic advantages of being a man. Long hair and a rainbow do not transform his flesh. He is a coward and a cheater. Telling us that we are just not supposed to notice, or that it does not matter, is abuse.

Humans have evolved four ways to respond to a stimulus. Observing “Kate” Weatherly cheat at sports, we might:

  • Turn away in disgust (transphobia)

  • Boo the sports cheat (transphobic hate)

  • Do nothing at all (transphobia, but at least you’re keeping it to yourself)

  • Smile and clap politely (inclusive, hooray)

Cognition, the process of thinking, for example, I can’t say anything in this situation or it will be deemed transphobic, takes about twenty-five times as long as the heuristic realization that “Kate” Weatherly is a man cheating at sports.

It takes energy. It takes effort. We are all required to be mental athletes for him.

“Gender identity” grooms us to fear speaking. It does not stop us knowing. We evolved to recognize sex, and recognize unfairness, but transgender activism demands we all pretend not to know, anymore.

This is an abusive relationship dynamic. It is abusive to tell women that they must swallow their discomfort and make a man feel some way, or respond in some certain way, in sporting competition. It is not “sporting values.”

It is the eternal valuation of men and boys over women and girls in sports, as old as the hills. Not “the right side of history,” just history.

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North Country
Feb 16Liked by Matt Osborne

Why are the real women still competing against these liars? Grow a spine!

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