Commentary: Men in the Women's Division. The last time. I promise.

[Mark Rippetoe]

Another Man Takes The Gold | Commentary With Rip #12 | Starting Strength Network

[JFord]

Another Man Takes The Gold | Commentary With Rip #12 | Starting Strength Network

You’re quite right Mark, to single out this event in that the actual female competitors in the meet applauded this guy.

This is incredibly galling considering that there are athletes like Riley Gaines out there every day standing up for women’s sports at tremendous personal cost to themselves. What a slap in the face this is to heros like her.

Truly shameful.

Also, people might be tired of hearing your message on this point but personally, I don’t think you should <I>ever</I> stop bringing it up until the problem is fixed. Your voice as an opinion leader on this matter is too important.

Don’t stop fighting on behalf of this inequity my friend.

[Steven Kalin]

I’m kind of a diplomatic guy, and I know a few , let’s just say raging leftists, up here in Canada. I’m thinking now of my tattoo artist. It’s hard to find a good one that isn’t woke. I try not to judge, and her and I in the early days had many a bitter argument about guns, for one thing. This is just a data point, but one day as she was causing me great pain, I broached this question with her, and was pleasantly surprised at her answer. She’s very pro trans rights, but she’s furious about this. I would suspect that this position of “ anything goes” is a media construct. Way less support in general even among their own people than they would have us believe.

[Eric Schexnayder]

Also, people might be tired of hearing your message on this point but personally, I don’t think you should <I>ever</I> stop bringing it up until the problem is fixed. Your voice as an opinion leader on this matter is too important.

Don’t stop fighting on behalf of this inequity my friend.

You may have missed the point. Competitive congenital female athletes are the ones who have to put a stop to this. Men will continue to shatter women’s records as long as women will allow it to happen.

[JFord]

You may have missed the point. Competitive congenital female athletes are the ones who have to put a stop to this. Men will continue to shatter women’s records as long as women will allow it to happen.

By me having possibly “missed the point”, do you mean to imply that men standing in solidarity with women on this largely woman’s issue is somehow not helpful nor is a successful resolution to this problem potentially beneficial to all segments of society?

[Eric Schexnayder]

By me having possibly “missed the point”, do you mean to imply that men standing in solidarity with women on this largely woman’s issue is somehow not helpful nor is a successful resolution to this problem potentially beneficial to all segments of society?

Very leading question(s) you’ve got there. The point is that literally everyone other than the athletes involved in this sport and the sport’s governing body can have a problem with this and argue against it, but as long as the players play the game it doesn’t stop.

I doubt many female athletes are truly unaware of the advantage their trans (I.e., male) counterparts have. I do think that some of them maybe don’t realize that if they actually end up beating the men they compete with, then the problem only actually gets worse.

[dmitry]

When such man, who decides to call themself a woman for an athletic competition, gets into a male prison, do they stll insist they are a woman?

[Mark Rippetoe]

When such man, who decides to call themself a woman for an athletic competition, gets into a male prison, do they stll insist they are a woman?

A terribly interesting question. I wonder if it's happened yet? I hope so.

[Ryan DCNT]

When such man, who decides to call themself a woman for an athletic competition, gets into a male prison, do they stll insist they are a woman?

No, they sue and get transferred to a women's prison

Trans inmate to move to women's prison after settling lawsuit against Minnesota : NPR

[Leo M]

I'll ask people I know who work in the prison system. My understanding is men pretending to be women are placed into the women's prison and women pretending to be men are placed into the men's prison.