FINA’s decision makes swimming the first sport to take the stance against transgender athletes with Groves declaring the swimming governing body should be ashamed.
Stream more sports news live & on demand with Flash. 25+ news channels in 1 place. New to Flash? Try 1 month free. Offer ends 31 October, 2022 The activist group called on FINA to “re-examine” the decision and consider the impact it would have on the lives of trans-people around the world. "I’m really supportive of the open category that they are suggesting that they are going to bring into competition because it gives a chance for everyone to be involved in our sport," Seebohm said.
"To keep them in a category that is going to see them racing people that are very much on the same level playing field.
At least she's not a hypocrite. She's standing on her beliefs even when she has to take the consequences.
Congratulations FINA, you made the right decision
Quite easy, just have open competition. Watch women sport disappear.
So in 2032, in Brisbane, we could have a Womens' 100mtrs Gold medal final, with 8 lanes full off 6ft 6' women with willies?
She can go jump.
I think she is in a minority and most probably retired.
Well, she condemned it so 😂😂😂
Well she can go and compete at the trans gender games. I think FINA is one of the few global organisations that is actually sensible and has the guts to stand by it.
Bet she would have a different opinion if 2 trans swimmers knocked her off the podium and took her medals.
costa0070 If she finished behind a trans athlete in her event, she wouldn’t have this view. Or even better he beats her for the spot on the next Aussie team. Luckily FINA have led the way - now NRL (today) & hopefully basketball will be next. No place for guys in womans sport.
“The decision is unscientific and goes against the IOC’s framework of fairness, inclusion and non-discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sex variations.” So, a Male who's Gender is Man want's to compete in Women's swimming Must be allowed to, or it's 'Discrimination'.
She is wrong
Who
Wonder how much she got paid to say that
Lol… they can all come out now and virtue signallers because the decision has been made … where were these voices in the lead up … PR teams in overdrive 😂… 2022
She's quite something isn't she? Maybe a few brushes with testosterone will change her mind?
Thats why she came second
costa0070 Tell her to join the mens races...
Next
Who really cares what it thinks
I see she is trying to be relevant! Lol
Medline Who?
Tell that to the Female University swimmers in the US that have been comprehensively beaten by a guy calling himself a female.
Why couldn’t LGBTQ simply start their own categories as happened w disability & Paralympics? LGBTQualympics provides multiple options - Compete by Birth SEX &/or chosen GENDER. Problem solved. Same thing w marriage - LGBTQuarriage
Virtue signalling women hater.
2nd?
Is she competing at the next Olympics?
How about she stops competing against women. She can compete against the trans folk instead and see how she goes 😡
I don't understand her stand on this issue, as this directly affects her as an athlete.
Murdoch cant leave this alone if you care about vulnerable people don't read or fund Murdoch. He promotes division & hate for profit & power!
You want this problem solved? Call it what it is, a mental disorder known as gender dysphoria. You’re born one sex but think you’re another. Then be inclusive of all sufferer’s of mental health conditions but don’t make their suffering worse by saying their dysphoria is true.
Males, females and a third category ‘transgender’ be added to the games’ participants with separate rules for each category
She doesn't understand basic biology. She should go ahead swim against the men. Why have men's and women's sports? Why not have just one?
And cue the virtue signalling
It's some kind of battered wife syndrome, these strong women who want to be beaten by men. So sad. Girl you are a champion, don't let some dude in a dress take that sway from you!
Gutless. Completely deluded. Irrelevant. How can someone say it’s unscientific and the use the term ‘sex variation’ (assuming there is more than 2 sexes) in the same sentence? This is an intelligence issue.
Which means she'll always have at best a silver medal or worse.
what on average biological polymorphism(s) to socially compensate for, and what on average biological polymorphism(s) not to; that is the question
Bravo 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
She’s throwing women’s sport under the bus!!!
What next? are you all sure that the aliens haven't taken over in the last 50yrs
Make a chance for her to compete with a tans see how is going
The world gone F-ing mad this women must be insane
Get bent.
It is a women's sport. They are not women. If you want to have a non gender sport then set up and compete in a non gender swim meet. Or abolish Women's/Men's sports all together. WOKEISM overboard.
FINA did the right thing banning transgender female athletes from competing against biological female athletes. What FINA is doing is creating a level playing field for biological female athletes. It is unfair for women to complete against trans females who are stronger than them
There's always one looking for attention....
What a load of BS from Groves, who is just upset that they'll have to compete with people of the same strength/endurance as them.
Easy to say when you've already got a medal.
Like all woke, she obviously dismisses facts and science over emotions. Wonder how much she's getting paid to keep pushing the issue...🤔
She's only a silver medalist, so she doesn't really matter anyway... anything other than 1st is just loosing, and who wants to listen to a looser anyway...
What's the beef here?
With her opinion, it would be deeply shameful if she doesn’t compete in the open division.
Men are biologically created to be physically stronger, not just to be protecters like the fantasy entails, but to ensure the future of the species even if it breaks minds. Men are the literal predator meant to hunt females. She just doesn't get it.
There are olympics for athletes & then there are para-olympics for those with a disability, so there can be trans-olympics for those who are trans.
Best news for womans rights, preserving their ability compete on an even playing field.
I believe they can compete in the open category,which she can compete in support of trans women. It's at times like this that I believe women will, one day, have the right to vote taken away. We just can help ourselves with emotional decisions and need to be 'liked' by crowds. 🤦🏻♀️
Oh well
Well when she starts losing to the transgender see how she likes it.
If this is shameful then just get rid of all male and female split races because they are ALL shameful by this standard. So instead of having a mens and womens 100m freestyle - they just have a 100 freestyle and everyone can compete. You take fastest 32 humans regardless
I wish someone truly had the balls to call this shit out for what it is . Marxism at its finest . These poor women and girls hard work gone in a snap of the fingers , of I need a safe space liberal . At least it's something till we finally wake up and call it for what it is
Supporting it is deeply shameful.
Thank God for FINA!!
well you would of got bronze and been the 2nd looser
Silly
She’s insane.
Oh...if you don't like it then best you identify as a male and compete with males? FINA got it right.
Sky/Comcast managed to find the only opposing voice in the entire Athletic world🤣
BECAUSE?
🤡🤡🤮🤮
Here for the 'deeply shameful' ratio 🍿
Medline, seek medical assistance urgently.
Maybe she is a he?
Deeply clueless isn’t she?
Because second is the first place looser 👏👏👏
So much anger for, so many medals that these transgender people have one ... none. Oops sorry one in a team sport; no athlete, competitor, ciach or support person complained.
What a disgrace to Australia, and a disgrace to her gender.
So Groves will get bronze next time? 😂
So she wants to continue to place 2nd or worse?
I'm guessing her career is already done and she wants a media gig. Her comments betray all female athletes.
Why do we give a shit about her 2 cents on the topic? This is just click bait to cause more turmoil on the matter.
Shameful is it ? It will be shameful if you ever represent that attitude in Australian teams again. Very shameful.
Strange how the same people who compel us to “Follow the Climate Science” don’t themselves want to ‘Follow the Biological Science’!
Thank goodness that her opinion counts for naught.
'Various groups in society have faced exaggeration, myths and moral panics, and the idea transwomen have an unfair advantage in sport is just another of these.”
Her career has peaked. Her next career move is getting a job as a sportscaster/commentator. That’s what this is all about.
never heard of her
is that bc she is a dude?
Far too many lefties in Australia nowadays, get a grip of yourselves before it’s too late!!!
Apparently, the chick has made peace with the fact that she will never win gold. 🤷♂️
Reality is there was probably more $$$ for her woke take than she’d ever make swimming. She got her fame…f the girls coming behind her. 😏 Its the leftist way…close the door once you make it.
who came 2nd
Don't worry, Groves, if you just wanted to never win a gold medal, now you only have to swim slower if you are gonna win!
If you are a transgender, you compete with transgender. That’s called fair.
- It’s the absolute right decision and the only fair way to deal with this issue. Women
Then she is ‘deeply disturbed’
'Look at me, I'm so virtuous and empathic. I'm on your side, I'm a good person'. Pathetic.
Lol imagine being so desperate to be woke and virtuous that you'd rather biological men be able to compete against you and take your achievements.
She's ok with second place I guess.
Good for him.
sounds like she's fine with coming in second.
I'd say $50,000 cash for this statement?
She says this to be some brown knight for the LGBYQRSIR
They can both race in the open category
I am a lifelong Labor voter and I agree with FINA's descion.
Let her swim against men then.
Maybe she can race in that group then? Problem solved 🤷🏻♀️
Then she doesn’t have to compete or cheer for Australian. Easy
Yes because nothing says women empowerment more than a biological male winning in female sport 🙄
Is she still competing?
This decision was weak, a bet each wat. They did not have the guts to go all the way and say only females at birth should compete in female events.
I wonder if she lost by a fraction of a second cause of a transgender woman, what would she be thinking then ?
So she agrees with under 30% of FINA and still thinks she's right. Well Albo had those sort of stats and still became PM.🤡🌎
Let Medline race the transgender at every event. Will not be getting silver and probably not getting Bronze now either. That’s fair isn’t it.
what is shameful is that this was allowed in the first place!
Poor whittle wokey!
Trying to score points with the woke, are we?
Woke
Would she say the same if Michael Phelps transitioned to female and demolished the competition by 2 laps?
Ask her to compete and get changed in front of Lia Thomas, then get back to us. SexNotGender
She’s a good little virtue signaller isn’t she
I'm confused as to why it's always men competing against women, very rarely the other way round...mmmmm!!! 🤔
Let her compete against them for a position on a sqad
🤦🤦 trying to pretend you care for a cause! What about the other female athletes that will lose out on a place No care for them? Some people are clueless they live in their own bubble and can't see the disadvantages or the consequences of what they profess to support
Why are all these trans athletes men wanting to compete against women yet we never see it the other way around?
Who?
What would he know?
It might be 'deeply shameful' to her, but it's a correct decision. Men should not be competing against women in sports like these where physical strength is required.
Yes very shameful that females should be completing against females..
Medline Groves is the lone voice!
Every village has one !
Comments gonna be 🔥
AWFLs gonna AWFL
I challenge her to get in a UFC ring with a transgender athlete, the experience might just change her mind.
He's got no idea has he
If she thinks men and women are equal, she could try joining the male team.
She's a nobody really her opinion on the decision is just screeching at a brick wall
Don't see her jumping in the men's pool
No it isn’t
The decision was correct.
lol
How much did you pay the swimmer to talk shit?
Madeline Groves is wrong. Fina was almost right; they shouldn't let boys swim in the women's events even if they were prevented from going through puberty. Children under 18 shouldn't take meds or have operations for gender dysphoria.
too bad
My daughter has done the early morning swims, trying to better her times every time. What would be the point if she had to look at a 5 or 6 second PB, to race against a transgender? Let's be fair!
Wonder how she'll feel when she can't qualify for anything because of them.
Have Michael Phelps line up against her every race and see if she changes her mind.
She doesn't speak for most of the population
🤣🤣 there is always one that panders to the mentally ill.
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