You know what I meant about "everyone having the opportunity". Even you at 47 have the opportunity: if at 47 you can meet the minimum standards (qualifying and finishing in the top 3 at the trials), you should be able to compete (assuming you don't test positive for THG). Hell, Edwin Moses is giving it a shot.
What if they find out a certain race of people have a physiologically significant advantage in a certain sport or event? Should they be disqualified from competing? And before you say that if it is a natural advantage, all the power to them. Transsexual people don't feel natural as the sex they were born as, so they need the sex change operation so they can feel comfortable with their own gender like the rest of us. That is what is natural for them. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Nov 15, 2003 1:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: Headline - Games opened to transsexual athletes On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 11:42:38 -0800 (GMT-08:00), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Are you a doctor? Yes, as a matter of fact Wayne IS a doctor! >Let the medical experts decide. Open your mind a bit: if the >experts say they will be competing on a equal footing, then >we should trust they have the best of the Olympic movement >in mind which means that everyone should have the >opportunity to compete. People have to earn my trust- I don't give it away. And lately the IOC isn't exactly on a hot streak of proving that they have ANYBODY'S best interest in mind except their own wallet and political power. >which means that everyone should have the opportunity to >compete. Hey that means I can compete next year in Atlanta too, at age 47! After all you don't want politically incorrect age discrimination do you? Or discrimination against the fitness-challenged? No, let EVERYONE compete. Just give everybody world wide the same day off every four years, to go out to the nearest track, and call it an 'everybody participates' Olympics. This is garbage and you know it. Life is full of choices. If Michael Johnson chose to have somebody chop off his Johnson, he could no longer compete as MJ. ......hmmmm........ RT
