Transgender in sports? - Page 2

On August 27 2012 03:12 Cybren wrote:
Let's see, are men "dominant" in starcraft because they're inherently better at it, or is it because the game is marketed mostly towards men?

On August 27 2012 03:11 blackone wrote:
I don't understand your post. What's the comparison to Starcraft? You mention Athletics and an athlete "switching" from male to female competition, but there's no parallel to that in Starcraft, MLG is MLG regardless of what gender you are.

On August 27 2012 03:11 blackone wrote:
I don't understand your post. What's the comparison to Starcraft? You mention Athletics and an athlete "switching" from male to female competition, but there's no parallel to that in Starcraft, MLG is MLG regardless of what gender you are.

On August 27 2012 03:13 viOLetFanClub wrote:

You're not actually serious, are you? I can't tell.

On August 27 2012 03:14 BabyToss! wrote:
Seriously, people should give Scarlett a break from this bull... gender doesn't matter in SC2 at all.

On August 27 2012 03:06 Asharon wrote:
Hi there,

the recent win of Scarlett (congratulations btw) in the WCS NA, raised an interesting question for me. How should we view transgenders in sports?

I wanna say upfront, no disrespect to people who are transgender this is really just a general discussion about the topic.

So Scarlett was born a boy and decided to become a girl. As a girl then she won the WCS NA and everyone is yelling "wow outplayed by a girl lol" and stuff like that. I don't really see it that way. Let's shift the whole thing to other sports and to other people.

Current world record in 100m is held by Usain Bolt with 9.58 in August 2009 (According to Wikipedia). So imagine he would say now hey, I feel I was born in the wrong body and become transgender.

The best time for a woman on that distance is 10.49 by Florence Griffith-Joyner in 1988, so about 1 Second slower than Usain Bolt. Which would mean that if Bolt ran this record as a woman he would hold the world record in Women's 100 metres for a very, very long time if not forever. So my question would be if you treat transgender men in sport as normal women, wouldn't that distort the whole sport and achievements? Wouldn't other female participants be up against a huge disadvantage?

I know that Starcraft is a game of the brain and not so much of strength, still men are by far dominant in this game, means if a transgender would sign up for female events she would have a huge advantage.

I find this a confusing topic and hope I didn't offend anyone by laying down my thoughts. I just like to get some diversion on this to see different points of views.

Thanks in advance

P.S. English is not my first language, so I apologize for mistakes.

I know that Starcraft is a game of the brain and not so much of strength, still men are by far dominant in this game, means if a transgender would sign up for female events she would have a huge advantage.