Off-Topic MtFs in Women's Sports / Title IX Demolition

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Believe it or not, this amazonian snu-snu beast is 100% female
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This is what Philosophytube sees in the mirror

 

[Chandelier]

I've been seeing this paper making the rounds. It's by Cheung et al, with known troon Kirsti Miller behind it. It's recent - it came out in July 2023 - and claims there are no differences between transwomen and natal women.

Evidence Synthesis
Existing literature comprises cross-sectional or small uncontrolled longitudinal studies of short duration. In nonathletic trans men starting testosterone therapy, within 1 year, muscle mass and strength increased and, by 3 years, physical performance (push-ups, sit-ups, run time) improved to the level of cisgender men. In nonathletic trans women, feminizing hormone therapy increased fat mass by approximately 30% and decreased muscle mass by approximately 5% after 12 months, and steadily declined beyond 3 years. While absolute lean mass remains higher in trans women, relative percentage lean mass and fat mass (and muscle strength corrected for lean mass), hemoglobin, and VO2 peak corrected for weight was no different to cisgender women. After 2 years of GAHT, no advantage was observed for physical performance measured by running time or in trans women. By 4 years, there was no advantage in sit-ups. While push-up performance declined in trans women, a statistical advantage remained relative to cisgender women.

Get that? "The advantages melt away." We need more men in women's sports.

But hang on. Does their own paper agree with the synthesis here?

Given the challenges in undertaking randomized controlled trials in the field, uncontrolled longitudinal studies assessing muscle mass in nonathletic trans people commencing GAHT represent the best level of evidence, albeit low–moderate in quality (37). Studies have predominantly used dual x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) to estimate skeletal muscle size. DXA separates bone, fat, and lean mass (which includes muscle, connective tissue, water, and organs); however, lean mass is used as an estimate of muscle mass (38). Compared with gold-standard quantification of skeletal muscle size using magnetic resonance imaging or computed tomography, DXA is more accessible, easier to use, and cost effective (38). While DXA correlates well with skeletal muscle volume/size when measured by magnetic resonance imaging in cross-sectional studies, it is far more imprecise in detecting longitudinal changes in response to interventions (38-40).

For trans men, longitudinal studies examining lean mass using DXA have consistently shown a 10% increase over the first 12 months associated with a 10% decrease in fat mass (41-45). Muscle area (as opposed to mass) measured in a single-slice magnetic resonance imaging cross-section of the thigh found that muscle area increased in trans men by 19% over 3 years but most change had plateaued by 1 year (46). After a median of 44 months of GAHT, a cross-sectional analysis of 43 trans men showed that lean mass was 7.8 kg higher than cisgender women but fat mass was not statistically significantly different (47). Trans men had fat mass 29% with lean mass 68.3%, which was statistically significantly different to cisgender men (fat mass 19.7%, lean mass 77%, P < .001) (47).

Interesting how trans men undergo such radical changes, and yet do not break any men's records or win gold. It's always the opposite.

Conversely, for trans women, longitudinal cohort studies show that reductions in absolute lean mass are modest, approximately 3% to 5% in the first 12 months (43, 45, 48-52). A longitudinal study in 179 trans women over the first 12 months of GAHT showed a decrease of total lean mass by 3% from baseline but fat mass increased by 28% (45). A 2-year study assessing relative lean mass percentage in trans women found reductions from 77.5% at baseline to 72.5% at 1 year and 71.7% at 2 years, whereas relative fat mass increased from 19% at baseline to 24.2% at 1 year and 25.6% at 2 years (51). A 3-year study assessing cross-sectional thigh muscle area in 19 trans women showed a decrease of 9% from baseline at 1 year and 12% from baseline at 3 years, although the loss between 1 to 3 years was statistically not significant (46). Muscle area in trans women remained statistically significantly greater than that measured in untreated trans men (used as the female comparison group), though with an almost complete overlap between the 2 groups. The authors noted that trans women were on average 10.7 cm taller than untreated trans men and in a linear regression model, height was a strong predictor of muscle area, even after correction for the effect of sex (46).

So despite the paper saying there are no differences and transwomen are just like women, they wholly admit there are differences that don't change while on hormones.

While longitudinal studies have followed trans women for relatively short durations, there have been 2 cross-sectional studies in nonathletic trans women that have aimed to describe the longer-term effects of GAHTs. After a mean 8 years of feminizing hormone therapy, 23 trans women were found to have 32% higher fat mass, 17% lower lean mass, 25% lower grip strength, 33% lower biceps peak torque, and 25% lower quadriceps peak torque relative to cisgender men (53). There was no cisgender female control group. Similarly, in another recent study designed to match participants for the same birth-recorded sex, 41 trans women (median 39 months GAHT) had a statistically significant 6.9 kg lower lean mass and 9.8 kg higher fat mass relative to cisgender men measured by DXA (47). Overall body composition in trans women (fat mass 32.3%, lean mass 65.0%) was similar to cisgender women (fat mass 32.8%, lean mass 64.5%, P > .05) (47), consistent with Alvares et al's cross-sectional analysis showing that fat mass percentage in trans women (median GAHT duration 14 years) was not statistically different to cisgender women (29.5% vs 32.9%, P > .05) (54). Lean mass corrected for height was also not statistically different between trans women and cisgender women (54). While the raw lean mass in trans women was higher than cisgender women, trans women were on average taller and as such, to compare body composition changes between groups, the percentage fat and lean mass may be a more appropriate comparison.

On grip strength:

In trans men, a prospective controlled analysis found that 23 trans men had a mean 18% increase in hand grip strength over 12 months relative to 23 cisgender women (41). A larger longitudinal analysis of 278 trans men showed an increase in grip strength of 6.1 kg (18% from baseline) over 12 months (65). Interestingly, in trans men, the increase in grip strength was associated with an increase in lean body mass (per kg increase in grip strength: +0.010 kg, 95% CI +0.003; +0.017), while this was not statistically significant in trans women (per kg increase in grip strength: +0.004 kg, 95% CI −0.000; +0.009) (65). A cross-sectional study comparing hand grip in 19 trans men (mean 29 kg, 2 years after GAHT) with 19 cisgender men (mean 40 kg) showed that strength was considerably lower in the trans men (66). In a group of 12 trans men followed over the first 12 months of GAHT, knee flexion and extension strength increased, but, even when adjusted for height, remained lower than cisgender men (67).

The lil doods still can't compare with the boys.

In trans women, several uncontrolled longitudinal studies (42, 43, 51, 53, 54, 65, 67) and cross-sectional studies have made comparisons with cisgender men (53, 54). All assessed hand grip strength, except for 2 small studies that assessed knee extension/flexion (53, 67). Hand grip changes in trans women have shown variable results, with some studies demonstrating significant reductions of −4 to −7% over 12 months (51, 65) and smaller studies showing no significant change (42, 43). Mean hand grip strength if corrected for total lean mass has been shown to be no different in trans women compared with cisgender women, but was significantly lower than cisgender men (54).

In terms of lower-body strength, a cross-sectional analysis of 23 trans women (mean 8 years GAHT) showed knee extension was 25% lower than cisgender men (53). In contrast, a small longitudinal cohort study of 11 trans women over the first 12 months of GAHT found no statistically significant change in knee flexion/extension strength in trans women (67). While the study was small and the comparison group were not concurrently assessed, the findings suggest that 12 months of GAHT is insufficient to change knee flexion/extension strength to the level of cisgender women.

I'll be posting the whole thing in the trans studies thread, figured people should know about this work since it references the Air Force trans recruit study extensively.

 

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Muslim Girls Basketball Team Reportedly CANCELED Game After Being Made Aware That The Competing Team Included A Transgender Player​

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A girls basketball team from a Muslim high school in California may have canceled a game after the school’s board was made aware that the opposing team had a trans-identified male player.

On Thursday, January 4, Averroes High School was set to compete against San Francisco Waldorf in a girls varsity basketball event, but the event was abruptly canceled. While the school has not provided comment on the reason why the sudden forfeiture took place, the decision was reportedly the result of the institution being made aware that a male player was participating on the Waldorf girls’ team.

Averroes is an Islamic school in the Bay Area, and sources close to the matter speculate that the hesitancy to compete against Waldorf was due to religious objections regarding the Muslim girls risking physical contact with the male player.

While the name of the male student will not be released at the request of sources, Reduxx has reviewed past game footage featuring the boy on the Waldorf team. He is seen towering above his female counterparts, boasting an obvious height and limb length advantage. According to team rosters, the male student has also retained his “masculine” name.

Speaking to Reduxx, Julie Lane of Women Are Real, an independent, California-based women’s advocacy group, revealed that information on the Waldorf player was first brought to their attention by a concerned father in November of 2023. His daughter had played a game against Waldorf, and had been left “traumatized” by the experience. Following the tip, Lane scouted out a Waldorf event to see for herself.

“The boy had an obvious advantage,” she says. “[The girls] didn’t necessarily run their offense through him, probably because they didn’t want to be targeted. But he got most rebounds and was able to jump much higher than the girls.”

She continued by noting that the male player “was not particularly skilled,” but that he had a longer range of arm reach and could jump significantly higher.

“They were at a complete disadvantage,” Lane says. “I caught one scramble for the ball with another player and my heart stopped. She was more than a foot shorter than him and could have been seriously injured.”

According to the statistics tracked by MaxPreps, the Waldorf Wolverines Girls Varsity team has won all but one game it has participated in over the past year.

Determined to raise awareness of the Waldorf player, the team at Women Are Real looked into the school’s upcoming games. Learning about their scheduled appearance against Averroes, a religious school focused on Muslim youth, the group then contacted the school’s board to alert them to the presence of a male on the opposing team.

“I was hopeful and thought there was no way this board would let their female athletes participate with a boy,” Lane said, noting that she never received a response from Averroes.

On January 4, Lane and some members from the Women Are Real team arranged to attend the match between the Waldorf and Averroes teams. But upon arriving, Lane was unable to locate the girls’ event. Confused, Lane approached some parents for answers, and was directed to speak to a female Waldorf student who had been sitting on the bleachers watching the boys’ game.

“I approached her and asked if her team was playing and if she was on the girls team, and she said she was on the team and they were not playing. I asked what happened, and she said ‘oh the other team didn’t have enough players.'”

But Averroes has avoided providing a concrete, official answer about their motivation for abruptly canceling the match, and did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Jean Berns, another representative with Women Are Real, believes the confusion and silence surrounding the cancelation suggests Waldorf’s male player was the cause.

“As the school hasn’t made an official statement we can’t say for sure why the game was canceled. However, none of the multiple reasons we have heard from various sources make sense. We heard from the school director that there were not enough athletes to field a team, yet they played a game two days later with more than enough players. We heard from others that the coach was ill, yet he was able to coach the boys team the same evening of the cancelation. All this mystery and secrecy leads me to believe that the true reason for the cancelation most likely involves the male athlete,” she said, adding that she was “relieved” when she learned the game had been called off.

“On one hand, I feel strongly that no girl’s safety should ever be compromised and that no girl should be competing against a boy unawares. On the other hand, I’m saddened that the result is girls quietly self-selecting out of sports,” she continued.

“Will girls’ sport die a silent death here in California? Seeing that the boys game went on made me angry. Nothing has happened to them. What message are we sending these young girls?”

Speaking with Reduxx, Marshi Smith of the Independent Council on Women’s Sports speculates that the confusion surrounding Averroes’ forfeiture may be the result of concerns about potential penalization from the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF).

“The CIF falsely claims that boys who say their ‘gender identity’ is ‘female’ have legal entitlements to girls’ opportunities and access to girls’ teams, dorms, locker rooms, scholarships, titles and records,” she explains. “Families and schools like Averroes are wrongly told they’ll be in violation of federal law if they don’t force their daughters to compete against or with males. Tragically, feeling powerless, teams will quietly forfeit more and more.”

But Smith says CIF’s threats are “false and unethical,” and calls on schools and families to push back against gender ideology-based policies.

“Families must boldly oppose this injustice against women and girls now. There are millions of Americans ready to champion them.”

UPDATE: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that SF Waldorf had won “every single” game it had competed in over the past year. This has been updated to reflect a single loss.

 

[Stan]

I'm glad to see people like this thread, but I am saddened to see so many examples of men shoving their way into women's sports because of their mental illness.

 

[monstrous bubo]

I’m not surprised that these men want to shove their way into women’s sports. I’m sad and furious to see other people actively encouraging and facilitating them.

 

[monstrous bubo]

James Scott Davidson, proud Scottish lady and athlete, coming to a green near you.

Scottish-born transgender golfer sets sights on LPGA ‘dream’ after winning women’s event​

In the past Hailey Davidson has been criticised by Judy Murray but says she wants to ‘make Scotland proud’ by playing in elite tournaments

Tom Morgan, SPORTS NEWS CORRESPONDENT and James Corrigan, GOLF CORRESPONDENT21 January 2024 • 1:27pm



A Scottish-born transgender golfer has addressed her distant dream of earning a Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) tour card after winning a tournament in Florida.

Hailey Davidson, the first male-born golfer to win a professional women’s event three years ago, claimed the top prize at the NXXT Women’s Classic at Howey-in-the-Hills.

However, in a social media post hitting back at critics, she explained there remains “a lot of work to be done” before she can join the LPGA Tour, which is “incredibly far off”.

The NXXT, formerly the East Coast Women’s Pro Golf Tour, has a partnership with the Epson Tour, a developmental feeder tour for the LPGA. But having previously been criticised in recent years by the likes of Judy Murray and other campaigners for women’s sport, Davidson was quick to dismiss suggestions she is now close to fulfilling her tour ambition.

“It’s always interesting how no one gets angry until there is any form of success,” she posted on Instagram of her “amazing” win. She added that she is “so incredibly far from the LPGA Tour with a lot of work to be done to possibly earn my way there one day”.

Although the top five earners on the NXXT points list should in theory earn two exemptions into Epson Tour fields, the NXXT fields are currently short of a minimum stipulation that 10 events must have an average of 40 players. Davidson, who has previously said she wants to “make Scotland proud” by participating in elite tournaments, beat 24 players in the latest three-round event which ended on January 17.

Murray, the leading Scottish tennis coach and mother of former world No 1 Andy Murray, claimed in 2022 that Davidson’s ongoing participation was “wrong”.



But Davidson has been backed by Dame Laura Davies, Britain’s most successful female golfer. She said Davidson had met the requirements set by the LPGA and should therefore be allowed to compete.

The 30-year-old, originally from Stair in Ayrshire but now based in Florida, has suggested criticism of her is motivated by bigotry rather than a desire to protect fair competition.

She began hormone therapy in 2015, the year she last competed as a male, and has undergone gender-reassignment surgery. Davidson rejects claims she has an unfair advantage over golfers born as women, claiming she lost 30 yards from her drive as a result of hormone treatment. She has said other professional female golfers can hit the ball further than she can.

‘I don’t agree with the current, softened policies’​

Other sports have announced increased protections for women’s sport in recent years, but Davidson would not be the first transgender golfer to play on one of the top tours. In 2004 Mianne Bagger qualified for the Ladies European Tour.

Born a male in Copenhagen, Bagger began playing golf as an eight-year-old and was considered such a good prospect that by the time she was 14 she was photographed at a golf clinic alongside Greg Norman.

But by her mid-20s she had given up the game and was transitioning to a female with hormone therapy. Bagger had a sex change operation three years later and by the age of 37 had persuaded the LET to change its “female at birth” membership rule. She duly went through Q-School spent a number of years on Tour, recording a few top 10s, and being widely accepted by her fellow pros, including Dame Laura.

But, now 57, Bagger believes there should be limits on transgender women competing in female sports. “I’m seen as a bit of a hypocritical voice, so I just have to take the abuse,” Bagger said in 2022. “I still think there could be access for transitioned women to women’s sport… [but] I just don’t agree with the current, softened policies that are requiring less and less medical intervention of a male-bodied person entering women’s sport.”

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[Procopius]

Here's a really weird one with a hilarious video. Especially if you watch it at 2x speed and see the troon's bizarre waddle as he ettempts top get away from the reporter. You may remember the story of Nicholas Cepeda, the 50 year old Canadian troon who identifies as a 13 year girl, and somehow persuaded the authorities to not only let him swim in races with real 13 year old girls, but to change with them too. His club was due to have a match with another swimming club at the other club's pool, but the hosting club got news that reporters would be present, rang Cepeda's club, and persuaded them to stay away. Cepeda turned up anyway, was seen by Rebel News entering the girls' changing room, so presumably went in to get an eyeful of teenage nudity, then left. No news if he swam, but the Rebel reporter tried to interview him on the way out. "Mr Cepeda, are you a sexual pervert?" No answer, but as I said he's got a great comedy run.

As the You Tube comments say, if he identifies as a 13 year old, why is he allowed to drive.

 

[I call shenanigans]

Cross posting this this from the legal actions thread

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/26/...tics-transgender-athletes-swimming/index.html

Lia is taking on World Swimming for banning him from elite completion. He is being represented by Athlete Ally, an LGBTQ+ advocacy group.

 

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Football fan banned over gender-critical posts after ‘Stasi’ Premier League investigation​

 

[Jacques1194]

SPAIN: “Gender Fluid” Male Runner Declares Himself A Woman To Participate In Race And Win Women’s Prize https://reduxx.info/spain-gender-fl...-to-participate-in-race-and-win-womens-prize/

 

[Kernel Sanders]

FIVE male players in a women's college volleyball game. Three on one team, two on the other. In Tranada, of course.

Some pretty funny footage of screeching trannies, though.

 

[Thiletonomics]

FIVE male players in a women's college volleyball game. Three on one team, two on the other. In Tranada, of course.

Some pretty funny footage of screeching trannies, though.

Maybe it was better in hindsight and the long run, with these "women" on volleyball teams, that bloomer shorts haven't been a thing in volleyball for a while:



Although, if they were still a thing today, would that actually attract even more of those said "women" to play, just so they show their bottom drawer contents in front of other women and the poor viewers there?

Thread Tax: NCAA official William Bock III resigned from the said organization, and calls out the NCAA in regards to allowing troons in women's sports. (Archived)

But then again, given how scummy the NCAA was from the start, it's likely that he's only doing this, knowing he'd get his ass canned immediately for what he said, in the "YOU CAN'T FIRE ME, IF I QUIT FIRST!" fashion.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

FIVE male players in a women's college volleyball game. Three on one team, two on the other. In Tranada, of course.

This doesn't surprise me at all, not just because it's Canada. Both schools (Centennial and Seneca Colleges) are in the greater Toronto Area which is quite the eclectic mix of types, trannies included. Thank godbear JYS isn't the athletic type and likely has no eligiblity available to try to join a women's sports team.

But then again, given how scummy the NCAA was from the start, it's likely that he's only doing this, knowing he'd get his ass canned immediately for what he said, in the "YOU CAN'T FIRE ME, IF I QUIT FIRST!" fashion.

NGL, the NCAA is an absolute dumpster fire right now. Athletic competition under its banner is currently being overshadowed by Names, Image, and Likeness issues; players wanting the right to unionize and transfer at will without consequence; and transgendered athletes. It wouldn't surprise me if the NCAA has a schism, metaphorically implodes, or sees member schools not wanting to deal with the aforementioned issues leaving for other associations.

I also wonder if any colleges would drop athletics altogether because that's the better option versus dealing with both entitled and transgendered athletes.
Edited to fix wrong word.

 

[Chandelier]

In Lynn, Massachusetts, a KIPP collegiate basketball team has a male player injure three female players and get away with it.

He is the tall blonde.

From a local article:

The KIPP Academy girls basketball game on February 8 against the Collegiate Charter School of Lowell ended at halftime. The question is, why?

Collegiate Charter left after 16 minutes of play with KIPP leading, 31-14. The game goes into the books as a 10-0 forfeit win for KIPP.

According to multiple sources, KIPP has a male player on its girls basketball roster, despite the school offering a boys program. The player is reported to be more than 6 feet tall with facial hair.

KIPP officials refused to confirm the player’s gender identification. If the player identifies as female, participation on the girls team would seem to be supported by the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association, the governing body for high school athletics in the Commonwealth.

According to the MIAA Handbook, Section 43.3.1: “A student shall not be excluded from participation on a gender-specific sports team that is consistent with the student’s bona fide gender identity.”

This girl's sports team was drawing in the wins because of their 6'0 'lay-dee' player. The coaches also knew he was a male, yet still allowed him to injure female players because it was his right to do so:

The player has reportedly been on the roster from the start of the season.

When asked if KIPP’s player had anything to do with the premature departure, Collegiate Charter School of Lowell Athletic Director Kyle Pelczar said his team was aware of the situation going into the game.

“No, and Coach (Kevin Ortins) knew going into the game, already, because we had them at home the first game of the year and nothing happened then, so he knew going into the game,” Pelczar said.

In that game, on December 12, KIPP defeated Collegiate Charter School, 36-29.
Pelczar said Ortins had his own reasons for leaving.

“So, he felt that his girls were getting injured, basically, all game,” Pelczar said. “He has a playoff game on Monday, so he didn’t want to have any more of his girls go down.”

Three injured. In one game. But keep copping for troons, ladies.

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Vermont's Long Trail school basketball team has another 6'0 troon, this one going by the name 'Rose Johnson'. Archive of ICONS thread here.

A Christian team is using the ADF to sue to play, after the forfeited a previous match so their girls wouldn't have to play against discount Paul Dano over here.

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Another troon swimmer smashes records. Girls are sending Riley Gaines DMs on how uncomfortable they are competing against this little cheat, mentioning that they feel as if they'll be punished if they speak out. Archive.

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New Hampshire: Maelle Jacques wins a girl's high school state title in high jump. The bar is 10'' lower than it is for the male high jump. Small article on accomplishments here. I don't know why the last sentence is blurred - all of them are like that.

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Maine: Soren-Stark Chessa wins third place at a state championship ski competition. Here is what our girl looks like:

ICONS women has up-to-date scoops on all these cheaters. If you want new material, check there or Riley Gaines' feed.

 

[Your_deadname_here]

The HS troon isn’t even trying to pretend to be female. Leg hair, long hair, not even pretending to have boobs. This guy couldn’t play any contact sports with other males, just look at his little twig body. Seems like he’s a fetishist who just wants to creep on women and get in the locker room with them than actually suffering from gender dysphoria.

Writing about this case, the troon Edward R. Murrow, Erin Reed said, that it is the most common injury in the sport, so what is the problem.

 

[Evilronald]

Writing about this case, the troon Edward R. Murrow, Erin Reed said, that it is the most common injury in the sport, so what is the problem.

I feel like troons are giant gaslighters and their entire purpose is to get the populace used to be gaslit. “No your economic situation isn’t worse with the current government, that is bigoted lies!”

 

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Trans-Identified Male Set To Compete Against Women As The Reigning Women’s Snooker Champion Following Victory Against 11-Year-Old Girl​

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A trans-identified male is set to compete against women as the reigning Women’s Snooker Champion at the English Women’s Snooker Championship on May 24 in Walsall, UK. Jamie Hunter, 27, became the top women’s player following a semifinal victory against a young girl last year.

Hunter first rose to prominence during the English Women’s Snooker Champion finals in 2023 after he came out victorious against Mary Talbot-Deegan, finishing 3-1. Hunter had managed to make it to the finals after he beat out Ellise Scott, an 11-year-old rising star in the snooker world, taking 2-0 against her in the semifinal grouping. The event had been Scott’s debut in the tournament, and, prior to her match against Hunter, she had achieved three match victories against experienced female opponents.

Hunter had been participating in women’s cue sports since 2021, just one year after he “came out” as transgender.

Within his first year of competition, he rose to the fourteenth position in the women’s billiards world rankings, and has since won a total of 7 women’s titles. Among them, the 2022 US Women’s Open and 2022 Australian Women’s Open, where he was awarded $9,000 AUD in prize money.

Prior to transitioning, Hunter played in a mixed-sex amateur league for five years. Speaking with Snooker Zone in 2021, Hunter admitted that he had no intention of competing professionally until he discovered that there was a women’s tour.

“Until this year, cue sports was just a hobby, something I done once, maybe twice a week, but now finding out about the Women’s snooker tour, I believe that will change,” he said at the time. “They make out as if I played snooker as a man, I was rubbish, so decided to do it in the women’s instead. I changed my gender for my wellbeing and my life, not for anything else.”

Hunter received significant backlash after his 2022 US Women’s Open win, when former women’s world champion Maria Catalano criticized the policies enabling males to compete against females. In an interview with The Sportsman, Catalano argued that women’s snooker should exclude males from female categories, as some rugby leagues have, to ensure fairness for women.

“We have fought so hard for our rights in the past – myself, Reanne Evans and others got people to write letters to allow us to play in leagues and clubs that banned women. I don’t believe that women can compete against men on a level playing field in sport. We are wired differently, we think differently. We are mentally different,” said Catalano.

The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) publishes a mixed sex international ranking of players. The highest-ranking female on their current list, Mink Nutcharut, is listed at 119.

In response to the criticism of his wins against women, Hunter has framed the backlash as transphobia.

“Everybody’s human. Regardless of what choices you make. You should treat everybody with respect,” said Hunter speaking to a BBC journalist last fall. Bizarrely, Hunter was interviewed while he sat in a gaming chair in a dark bedroom — which he refers to as “the dark girl cave.” The room has a transgender pride flag pinned up on the wall behind him.


The dark girl cave Hope mum doesn't see this – "Open the curtains" https://t.co/O8htiSX3Y9
— Jamie Hunter (@JamieHunter_147) October 23, 2023

The upcoming English Women’s Snooker Championship is set for May 24, 2024. It is being organized by the English Partnership for Snooker and Billiards (EPSB), which is the national governing body for the sport in England. They describe their goal as creating a “structured coaching environment that will inspire all regardless of gender, ability, or ethnicity to fulfil their potential in our sport.”

The EPSB has a diversity, equity, and inclusion policy with a lengthy section on discrimination, including a ban on any “condition, rule or practice [that]… particularly disadvantages people who share a protected characteristic.” As for their list of protected characteristics, the EPSB includes “gender, gender identity, marital status, sexual orientation, race, colour, nationality, religion, age, disability, HIV positivity, working pattern, caring responsibilities, trade union activity or political beliefs.”

The English Women’s Championship is set to take place at the Landywood Snooker Club in Walsall, UK, on May 24.

This is not the first time a male has dominated women’s cue sports, sparking backlash from players and fans.

Last November, a female pool player refused to compete against a trans-identified male opponent at a women’s championship in Wales. Lynne Pinches received an outpouring of support as video began to circulate showing her walking away from the table after being matched to play against Chris Haynes.

A female pool player reportedly refused to compete against a trans-identified male opponent at the Women’s Champions of Champions Final in Denbighshire, Wales, yesterday.

Lynne Pinches walked away from the table after being matched to play against Chris "Harriet" Haynes. pic.twitter.com/vLofQALosk
— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) November 13, 2023

Days later, two more female pool players refused to compete against Haynes in solidarity with Pinches during the Ultimate Pool tournament in Blackpool, UK.

In January, Pinches headed an effort to launch a lawsuit against the World Eightball Pool Federation (WEPF) and Ultimate Pool Group (UPG), accusing the governing bodies of subjecting women “to direct sex discrimination and harassment on the grounds of sex.”

 

[Thiletonomics]

New York AG Letitia James has filed a C&D against Nassau County, and demanding to remove Bruce Blakeman's enacted transgender Sports restrictions in that County. (Archived)

 

[Procopius]

Top girls' football league faces being shut down by the Football Association for refusing to allow a boy to play in its matches

The FA has threatened the West Riding Girls Football League with sanctions

By Daisy Graham-Brown

One of the biggest girls' football leagues in the country faces being shut down by the Football Association for refusing to allow a boy to play in its matches.

The Mail on Sunday can reveal that a row has broken out between the FA and officials running a female league in Yorkshire after parents complained their son had not been allowed to join.

It is understood the FA has threatened the West Riding Girls Football League with sanctions and a possible suspension if it does not agree to let boys on the pitch, a scenario officials have branded 'a massive threat to the girls' game'.

Last week an emergency meeting was held by organisers of the league – which has at least 6,000 under-18 girls playing across more than 300 teams – where managers voiced their concerns that allowing boys to play would 'open the floodgates'.
It is understood the FA has threatened the West Riding Girls Football League with sanctions and a possible suspension if it does not agree to let boys on the pitch

The FA's gender policy states that any under-16 teams must allow both boys and girls to play, despite admitting that 'physical strength, stamina or physique' can put one sex at the disadvantage of the other.

At the end of October last year the boy's parents asked the West Riding Girls League if their son could join due to him not wanting to play with other boys, and also because of his ability level.

But after the league declined their request, the parents launched an appeal with the West Riding County Football Association – overseen by the national FA – which allegedly told the organisers they were 'in no position to refuse the application' and would face sanctions for doing so.

An email from the league's secretary to its members last week said: 'This is a massive threat to the girls game and we should be mindful that this could be a long struggle should we fight this head on.

'To all intents and purposes we would not just be fighting for the integrity of our girls' league but all girls' leagues in the country.'

Furious team coaches pointed out there were mixed sex leagues the boy could join.

One female club manager said: 'We've spoken to parents and the girls themselves, a number of them we've 'rescued' from mixed sex leagues where they have been excluded from having the ball passed to them, where they have been tackled and had bones broken.

'I have also been informed by parents that they would be looking to take their daughters out of the league and the girls themselves saying they would just give it up if boys joined.'
Fiona McAnena (pictured), at sex-based rights group Sex Matters, said: 'A boy on the pitch changes everything'

Fiona McAnena (pictured), at sex-based rights group Sex Matters, said: 'A boy on the pitch changes everything'

A male coach said when he asked the girls on his team for their opinion on allowing boys to join they all said 'they wouldn't be happy and then four said they would give up playing football'.

Fiona McAnena, at sex-based rights group Sex Matters, said: 'A boy on the pitch changes everything. The law is clear that female-only sport is allowed. It's sex discrimination for the FA to tell girls they must accept a male player.'

The FA said: 'West Riding County FA is working with the league and associated clubs on this matter, and we will continue to support them so that an appropriate solution can be found for all.'

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I’m not sure if this is trans-related. I think that they’re requiring girls leagues to take in boys, regardless of gender identity or trans status or whatever.

I wonder if the league would have allowed the boy to play if he claimed to be a girl.