I doubt she is just thinking about that
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I doubt she is just thinking about that
Because it's a sporting competition, and needs to have clear and concise guidelines about who is eligible. Deciding it on a case by case basis is not how a serious sporting league runs.
not sure if serious?
he is a man. I do get to choose the sex because thats how he was born..
Um, yeah. Great question to ask.
The problem with calling biological sex a social construct is that it ignores, you know, biology, which is fairly clear in terms of its parameters.
Seriously, these people
Hannah called herself a woman. You are being hugely disrespectful
Well said
For her part she has taken the decision with a lot more dignity than some of the outraged here
http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-ne...nter-aflw-draft-rejected-20171017-gz2n6h.html
The distinction SHOULD be clear, but many uninformed people misuse biological sex in social constructive parameters. It shouldn't be, but alas.
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That's the bit that makes no sense to me. You can make a reasonable case for either letting her play AFLW or not but you can't make a logical case for saying no to AFLW but letting her play in the local league.
Just when you think the AFL has maximised the stupid....
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Eg you have no idea what you are talking about.
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Did you just assume what Hannah thinks!!!?!?!?!
I've seen a couple of stories quoting parts of their statement. Here's one:
The AFL based its decision on the Victorian Equal Opportunity Act, which states that athletes can be discriminated against based on their sex or gender "if strength, stamina or physique is relevant".
http://www.smh.com.au/afl/afl-news/...-to-enter-aflw-draft-rejected-20171017-gz2n6h
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To be considered a woman in the ACT you needn't have had surgery, unlike most other states.
Gender is a social construct I think you mean? (genuine question)
Nope
Biological sex is a SPECTRUM. It is not rigid, static. The current scientific literature is clear on this. Biological sex is for taxonomic categorization and social classification.
Sex is defined by a consortium of arbitrary traits akin to phenotype. There are "women" with broad shoulders and small pelvises. There are "men" with wide child-bearing hips and narrow biacromial breadth. Look at Kinfelters Syndrome. I know girls who have wider shoulders than 99% of men.
In the context of physicality and sports, reproductive organs are not the defining characteristic. It's the arbitrarily assigned traits that regardless of "biological sex" is on a spectrum.
This is common knowledge in the science world and on campus.
Sex is defined by a consortium of arbitrary traits akin to phenotype. There are "women" with broad shoulders and small pelvises. There are "men" with wide child-bearing hips and narrow biacromial breadth. Look at Kinfelters Syndrome. I know girls who have wider shoulders than 99% of men.
In the context of physicality and sports, reproductive organs are not the defining characteristic. It's the arbitrarily assigned traits that regardless of "biological sex" is on a spectrum.
This is common knowledge in the science world and on campus.
Clearly lacking the first.
Empathy is all well and good but you can't make every single decision based off of misguided empathy.
I don't think it's empathetic to the woman who would have inevitably been crunched by someone who is 6 foot 3 and 100kgs, bigger than most men. What if she suffered life long brain injuries? Hannah's skeleton is that of a man's, the women she'd be playing against not only have much smaller skeletons but have much thinner skulls, which means brain injurys are far more likely if a 6 foot 3 100kg man hits them.
You're right, there are also some 13 year olds more developed than some 17 year olds, so lets let any given 17 year old the opportunity to play against 13 year olds, because equality and empathy or something.
Stay in your lane.
Insulting me doesn't make me want to interact with you.
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No, it isn't. It had two clear expressions that make up over 99% of all humans, with a small subset of variances due to androgen sensitivities and chromosomal abnormalities.
Humans are a sexually dimorphic species, like all sexually reproducing species, meaning that it is anything but a spectrum.
Haha the AFL will never win this political correctness battle no matter what direction they take.
Have a league for everyone no matter what the gender and we still have issues.
Or create a whole heap of competitions. No one is ever going to be happy.
Where should Hannah compete? Good luck AFL
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Have a league for everyone no matter what the gender and we still have issues.
Or create a whole heap of competitions. No one is ever going to be happy.
Where should Hannah compete? Good luck AFL
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