So, now Laurel Hubbard has the perfect excuse for bombing out so embarrassingly at the Olympics: she was just on the rag. Laurel is a woman, after all — a really-real, totally, 100% woman and don’t you dare be so bigoted as to suggest otherwise. It’s science! Trans women are real women!
And real women get their period — and it makes them kind of shit at sport for a week.
Chinese swimmer Fu Yuanhui made headlines in 2016 at the Rio Olympics for telling a reporter she had not performed well due to the timing of her period.
While her comments showed discussing a woman’s menstrual cycle in sport was still taboo, it also highlighted a research gap.
Sport and exercise scientist Brianna Larsen said most sports research is based on the physiology of men.
Well, Fu should have just identified as a man — problem solved!
Meanwhile, feminists have got another imaginary “gap” to whine about.
“Female research can be a little bit complicated, we have this thing called the menstrual cycle,” Dr Larsen, from the University of Southern Queensland, said.
And on top of that, she said there’s not yet an understanding of the impact of hormonal contraceptives on physical performance.
“We have all these different, invariable hormone profiles that men don’t really have to worry about so in that way, men are easier to study.
“That also means there are some pretty big gaps in the data, meaning a lot of our sport science data that’s underpinning practice is really based on the physiology of men.”
It sounds an awful lot like they’re saying that there are real and demonstrable differences between women and men.
That’s heresy they’re talking, there.
Semi-professional soccer player and personal trainer Bec Kirkup, who is part of Mr Vogel’s testing group, agrees more needs to be done to support females in sport including research.
“It’s so important for the research to be done so we have more scientific evidence so we can help females in sport get the best they can out of their performance,” she said.
Ms Kirkup describes her symptoms as mild, experiencing cramps, headaches and a sore lower back, but has seen other female athletes suffer at different stages of the menstrual cycle.
“In other girls, they feel really exhausted, fatigued. Cramps can be extremely painful and they can feel a little bit clumsy as well,” she said.
If that sounds directly contradictory to the ruling woke conceit that “trans women are real women”, try to reconcile the following statement with all the whining about periods putting the girls off their game.
“When the day comes that females are paid closer to what the men are paid, then women will be able to play full-time and they’ll be able to put a lot more of their focus into their training and recover.”
ABC Australia
Why pay women the same as men, when men aren’t having a week off training and competition every month, cos they’ve got “women’s problems”? I’m pretty sure you won’t see Beauden Barrett sitting on the benches, clutching a hot water bottle to his tummy and crying while eating a whole box of Tim Tams.
On the other hand, give Hannah Mouncey a good kick in her balls and see how she plays.
