Andy Mac is trans?!
Adults and kids have always competed against each other in skateboarding! The age of the skaters has absolutely fuck all to do with the issue.
Please donât post Braille videos thatâs fucked up my YouTube feed.
Hahaha, I accidentally clicked on a Dan Corrigan one yesterday. Donât particularly have anything against him from what I know of the guy but Iâm not a fan of âcamera in YouTubers faceâ style videos.
Rayssa and Sky want a word.
I was about 25 and had won the London Game of S.K.A.T.E. for 2 years in a row (CMOAC, but also for context) when I played Shane OâNeill when he was about 13 and he fucking annihilated me
We know that news piece wasnât posted by that person because of the ages though, donât we?
Thatâs the thing, look at female skaters like Elissa Steamer skating the Tampa Comp with the male skaters for one.
The Olympic female skaters want their scores to be judged at the same standards as the males too. Even if that means theirs come in lower a lot of the time. Level playing field.
I think skating comes mid-way when it comes to the difference between the sexes. Some sports - rugby, tennis - are about strength and stamina. The top men are always going to beat the top women there. There are others, like showjumping, where itâs a level playing field. In skating the gap between the top men and the top women is narrower than tennis, but it doesnât seem to be completely even yet. Maybe some skating disciplines are more evenly matched than others.
Great insight mate. Cheers for that.
In skating the gap between the top men and the top women is narrower than tennis
What the fuck are you on about. I didnât mind it at first when you started posting again; but now its just pure bullshit again.
I think at this point you are so far removed from everyone on here you need to fuck off. Iâm not one to push banning people but you have caused good members to leave.
@Spanky if he is allowed to keep posting, is there a way to stop seeing one persons posts? Bored of it.
Go to their member profile page (click avatar/username) then select âignoredâ:
I hope that helps Ukraine obviously but itâs also pretty scary at the same time.
Sorry for that. I was frantically rowing back from controversy.
Iâd had one post pulled - I was up in Yorkshire over the weekend and saw a haystack made to look like a really shit 10ft model of the Queen, and posted a picture on the Random Pictures thread. That got pulled because it wasnât skate-related.
Then I posted a link that Sean Goff put on his Facebook page about the 29-year-old skater beating the 13-year-old girl in the NY competition. He had 150-plus comments all saying how outrageous it was that it was allowed. But itâs a different atmosphere here and when I put it on the forum the first message was that I was using the story as a loophole to be a troll, essentially. I thought âOh shit!â and tried to pull back and ended up talking bullshit. So Iâm sorry.
I posted a link that Sean Goff put on his Facebook page about the 29-year-old skater beating the 13-year-old girl in the NY competition. He had 150-plus comments all saying how outrageous it was that it was allowed. But itâs a different atmosphere here
Yeah because this isnât Sean Goffâs Facebook page. Donât you understand the difference? Iâm pretty sure you do and its just funny to you. I mean, why describe the photo you posted? The one you were told to take down?
Why are you saying â29 year-old skaterâ and â13 year-old girlâ? Itâs a womanâs event. Theyâre women, whatever your 60 year-old white, male, Tory ass thinks.
Itâs a womanâs event. Theyâre women, whatever your 60 year-old white, male, Tory ass thinks.
Different sports have different rules about what constitutes a woman for competition purposes. Itâs hot topic. Swimming has just changed its rules. A lot of other international sport federations - football, badminton, cycling, hockey, athletics and lacrosse, have either updated or are reviewing their rules. Skating is still divided into menâs and womenâs events, so at some point or other the big competitions will need to set down guidelines for who is and isnât eligible. Iâm too old and I donât compete so my own view is pretty irrelevant here - but itâs a debate skating wonât be able to avoid for ever.
Trans women are not women. Trans women are men who have issues with their male body and decide to try appear as a woman using surgeries/chemicals/therapy to work out how to live their life as a woman the best they can.
And its vica versa for trans men.
Stop berating someone who lives in reality with your utopian fantasy.
To anyone who wants to call me transphobic, you dont know me so dont throw henious accusations based on two lines of text.