What are your thoughts on the Barbra Banda argument?

[purplepoppy]

Barbra Branda has been awarded BBC women footballer of the year. However this has caused outrage with many questioning if Barbara is actually a woman. Stories in the right wing press point to Barbra having failed gender eligibility tests although she was registered female at birth.

There's been a lot of backlash on social media from the usual suspects but what's your opinion?

Registered female at birth, she's a woman

So BBC really means what I think it means

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

"Banda was born in Lusaka, the Zambian capital. She began playing football around the age of seven playing on the streets. Banda was inspired by her father who played football and would encourage her to practise. She played with boys as the academy she attended did not have a girls team."

https://olympics.com/en/news/barbra-banda-we-have-something-within-us
https://www.bbc.com/sport/av/africa/46234822
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202009/01/WS5f4da11ea310675eafc56ad1.html
https://olympics.com/en/news/ronaldo-inspired-zambia-striker-barbra-banda

Thoughts:
There's a major crisis of confidence in knowledge & in education, perhaps planet-wide? I don't really understand the causes, or if this crisis is a new thing at all, but the consequences are many, since this crisis is easily exploitable by political leaders.

[MrOracle]

Without having a link to the article you are referencing, either you or they are confused.

There's a difference between whether the person is male or female, and a SEPARATE difference between whether they are a woman taking male steroids for competitive advantage. A person could be 100% female, but still be disqualified for taking male hormones - which many female athletes have done as a performance enhancer without having any desire to be a man. This kind of performance enhancement is banned by most leagues, like most other artificial performance enhancers, but that doesn't have anything to do with gender.

Someone is conflating the two, either out of ignorance or out of pushing a political agenda. And if it's the latter, it's a really stupid tactic, because there are FAR better examples that can be made.

[Anonymous]

As a guy it's hard. I had a "women" hit on me at work a few weeks ago. She looked like a woman but there was something in mind that said she might be a man. After she paid for her groceries and left I asked my colleagues. Two of my colleagues said they thought she was a woman and two thought she was actually a man. I never went on a date with "her".

[goaded]

Wrong fake account, dumbass.

[Anonymous]

Well we saw that male in Olympic boxing beat up all those women.

[Anonymous]

Registered female a birth doesn't mean that much. I'm pretty sure that Olympic boxer from Algeria was registered female at birth. But when tested for eligibility in other professional leagues it came to light the boxer had XY chromosomes. So male. Together with a birth deformity, this means a male can present as female. But the genetic sex is still male. THAT is what defines which league someone is eligible to play in typically--NOT how the person chooses to identify or live his or her life.

Not familiar with the Banda case, but I'd suggest a similar resolution. Test the chromosomes. If there's a Y the person should be ineligible for competition in women's sports. Keep it simple and objective.

[D_Bone_Steak]

"Been awarded BBC women footballer of the year." Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! 🤡 🌎

I'm sure big black cock woman has the balls to handle it.

[molonski2]

Plenty of Gattoy here in Soccer teams... not sure if any win player of the year ,

Thai boxing too.

[jshm2]

It's a non-argument as she is a female, though one that looks like a male.

So a reverse tomboy if you will.

[texascollegegirl]

y'all assholes will tell any dirty fucking lie, won't you? Go fuck yourself.

[Jersey2]

What are you going on about?

[texascollegegirl]

@Jersey2 I'm not going on, I'm stating y'all piece of shit assholes will tell any dirty fucking lie, as in this case. Go fuck yourself, loser.

[Jersey2]

You are a terrible troll. Do better.

[texascollegegirl]

@Jersey2 says the racist PoS who is defending these lies. Go fuck yourself loser.

[Jersey2]

So do you like share that logon ID with the others as I noticed inconsistent quality in your trolling. Right now it seems lackluster and low effort.

1.bp.blogspot.com/.../...al%2Bmedia%2Btrolling.jpg

[zagor]

The right wing press are a collection of idiots. Start with that.

[nawtee_me]

If the chromosome say female then she is female….

[Jersey2]

Supposedly they moved away from such testing 25 years ago to hormone testing. I don’t know much about it but they say having XX and XY isn’t good enough as some people have different hormones. I think you must be XX for women’s sports or you are in the CY league. Some women have higher testosterone but that is just a natural advantage as is being tall for women’s basketball. But being tall is bad for gymnastics so people have different advantages.

[Jersey2]

XY league not CY. *

[Anonymous]

@goaded "I'm the "more speech" nobody likes. Try to mislead people, I'll respond."

The irony of this ^ in your profile is fucking hilarious. :)

[Likes2drive]

They look like a man so who knows these days, used to be easy to tell years ago but now it’s actually hard to at times

[AviatorTom]

That doesn't look like a woman

[Jooooooeee3]

They never actually showed crows or Tom servos for that matter on the mystery science theater 3000

[RageBabe]

Everything is dubious coming from the BBC.

[Anonymous]

she's a science experiment. she's no longer a human being with ordinary rights.

[Iron_Man]

that’s not a woman

[goaded]

I really think the Sergeant at Arms should place officers at every public Capitol bathroom door to check the genetalia of anyone entering.

[Gold618]

That doesn't look like a woman to me.

[andreasderjuengere]

My thoughtsing: ... who cares :D

[beefcakebradybatson]

She's a woman, but looks sorta masculine.

[goaded]

You bad! C:

[goaded]

I really think the Sergeant at Arms should place officers at every public Capitol bathroom door to check the genetalia of anyone entering. If it's good enough for the Pope...

[Jennz6]

Yes, BBC