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This was my primary frustration after today’s debate on the subject at #SSAC22 Hard as I tried to explain that every SELECTION matters, that every place or lane earned by a girl or woman going a male is wrong, what this debate needs is for women to be asked for their voice
The reason this came up, by the way, is that @gladwell asked the panel if this issue of trans women participation could be handled differently for elite sport compared to sub-elite and community sport? One answer was that yes, it can and should be, and only when records & money
…are involved should we care about the retained advantages and its implications for fairness. I tried (clumsily, I regret) to say that it’s not about money or prizes, but about selection and about earning places on teams, or lanes in finals, and that women at ANY and ALL levels
