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Poilievre says 'biological males' should be banned from women's sports, change rooms and bathrooms (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre stepped into the debate over trans rights on Wednesday, saying "biological males" should be banned from women's sports, change rooms and bathrooms.

"Female spaces should be exclusively for females, not for biological males," Poilievre said in Kitchener, Ont.

The Conservative leader made the comments after being asked if, as prime minister, he would introduce legislation to prevent "transgender women" or "biological men" from participating in female sports or entering female prisons and shelters.

"A lot of the spaces … are provincially and municipally controlled, so it is unclear ... what reach federal legislation would have to change them," Poilievre said.

"But obviously female sports, female change rooms, female bathrooms should be for females, not for biological males," he added.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

In my utterly not humble opinion competitive sports are dumb and sports should just be fun ways to stay healthy... as such I'd be happy to see sex specific sports leagues and sports leagues in general go the way of the dodo.

If you like competitive sports then uh... sex does have a pretty strong correlation with muscle mass and the like but so does a lot of other shit. We should probably just follow wrestling's approach and weight class everything.

[–] Nouveau_Burnswick 6 points 8 months ago

We should probably just follow wrestling's approach and weight class everything.

We should just let every sporting body make its own decisions because every sport has different nuances that we don't understand.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I'm not into competitive sports, but I don't think they're fine. I'm in favor of gender neutral or weight classed leagues.

On some level though I think it's okay to tell trans athletes they can't compete in certain leagues. I'm colourblind and I can never be a firefighter or a pilot or a cop, and I had to back off from my dream of doing art school because I didn't think I could compete. There are biological restrictions which preclude things we want, and I do think being trans precludes competing in the sex based leagues, but as mentioned earlier we can revise our leagues to make them a better fit on a per sport basis.