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  1. oakey

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    So, what point are you making exactly?
  2. oakey

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    Alternatively he has to herd cats leading the Labour party - so making pledges and then shifting when reality bites is the sign of a pragmatic person not an ideologue.
  3. oakey

    Disabled supporters story

    Like some do with Family zone tickets. Nobody suggests it should be made more difficult for families as a result. Quite the reverse, there was a long thread on here calling changes to the Family zone tickets a retrograde move. We don't do enough for disabled fans currently. I sit in a bay as a...
  4. oakey

    Disabled supporters story

    Both can be true.
  5. oakey

    Disabled supporters story

    On principle I think that making large concessions to families and adults with multiple children is not matched with concessions for disabled people with complex needs. Why should parents be given access to very cheap tickets but disabled people are expected to repeatedly demonstrate they need...
  6. oakey

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/04/met-chief-says-millions-of-men-are-danger-to-women-and-girls-in-england-and-wales An inconvenient truth? A toxic culture war fringe issue which only hateful bigots bang on about?
  7. oakey

    FA allows sex discrimination

    Full of logical fallacies, non sequiturs and wild conclusions - as are most articles nowadays ;)
  8. oakey

    FA allows sex discrimination

    It means unlikely to be as knowledgeable about the issue as the authors are. True of most journalists but especially one who didn't live through the era described by Sharron Davies. A good journalist has to listen well to first hand accounts.
  9. oakey

    FA allows sex discrimination

    Although it's interesting it's all beside the point for me and a distraction. If transgender MTF becomes as weak as a kitten it matters not. Sport has sex categories. I trust the two best known British biologists, Robert Winston and Richard Dawkins, who assert that Humans cannot change sex.
  10. oakey

    FA allows sex discrimination

    Read that review. A young journalist with a bias. Perfectly acceptable but one-sided.
  11. oakey

    FA allows sex discrimination

    It's mainly anecdotal. What's Joanna Harper's claim that she is 12 per cent slower based on? Who has verified this? Where are the peer reviewed studies that these doctors are referring to when making assertions that these differences are minor? It's anecdotal which is useful, but never...
  12. oakey

    FA allows sex discrimination

    The article seems to argue that a modified biological male, who now identifies as a woman, is so nearly the same as a biological female that it matters not, let 'em play. It cherry picks medical data about individuals and then generalises to conclude these differences are teeny weeny. It throws...
  13. oakey

    FA allows sex discrimination

    Those other issues do concern me but they are all contingent on the women's category being respected
  14. oakey

    FA allows sex discrimination

    No that's not the case. I started the thread as I shared a news article which raised this particular issue.
  15. oakey

    FA allows sex discrimination

    This is a Football and other Sports board. Why would I raise other issues? If it isn't black and white there's no need for a women's category at all. Which is exactly where this could lead - a Men's category and a Mixed category. The Women's category will be open to everyone.
  16. oakey

    FA allows sex discrimination

    Just to add I have been in some scrapes with women too. But they were as different as night from day.
  17. oakey

    FA allows sex discrimination

    - 64 years of experience living in a small female body - I have been sexually assaulted several times by males, including twice inside Highfield road stadium when I was pinned against some railings. - I have been punched by a male outside Highfield rd. - I have been pushed and threatened several...
  18. oakey

    FA allows sex discrimination

    You can decide for yourself that other issues are more important but not what I should focus on. "Look over there". You can suggest that since I haven't started a thread about a,b,y and z issues then I don't care about them. Whataboutery. You are free to minimise the issue or say it's not a...
  19. oakey

    FA allows sex discrimination

    I have never, and would never, report someone for not looking feminine enough. I would probably only report someone who I was fairly certain is a male and in a changing room and not in a public toilet.
  20. oakey

    FA allows sex discrimination

    The same way as for the last century. Most facilities are managed. Report your concerns and get branded a "Karen"
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