With subsequent talk and recent talk about gender roles in various tourneys I honestly think we need SOME KIND OF STANDARD. Otherwise, me and others might just go put a dress on and cash in.Valid question / subject - what say you?
Btw, this subject is avoided like the plague. It is now a real thing. Real questions but please be respectful of those whom you may hurt feelings but once again real question as we are dealing with real cash money and this is / could be a real thing
So, if i ever would win a tourney for a few hundo, they are going to check my gender? Would i have to do this in front of all the other participants?![]()
Some may want more than dropping the shorts or lifting the dress. A blood test and psychiatric evaluation will be necessary to truly determine one's gender.
With subsequent talk and recent talk about gender roles in various tourneys I honestly think we need SOME KIND OF STANDARD. Otherwise, me and others might just go put a dress on and cash in.Valid question / subject - what say you?
Women are not going to idly stand by & allow some scumbag dress up in attempt to rob them. They will, however, show tolerance and acceptance to a legit transgender. You don't have to understand it, just accept that it is what it is and acknowledge that you're dealing with a fellow human being. IMO, it's a bit chauvinistic to assume women cannot handle these situations on their own, and even more so to feel the need to gender check a player. Take a person born of one gender, living as another, attempting to participate in life as normally as possible, and humiliate them for being different. Cause irreparable emotional trauma for $200. All over a pool game?
Point being, women players do not need a knight in shining armor. Let women manage women's pool. Observe if you like, but otherwise stay out of it. Respectfully so.
there are certain things they will not fit into.
Like a Maternity ward
Women are not going to idly stand by & allow some scumbag dress up in attempt to rob them. They will, however, show tolerance and acceptance to a legit transgender. You don't have to understand it, just accept that it is what it is and acknowledge that you're dealing with a fellow human being. IMO, it's a bit chauvinistic to assume women cannot handle these situations on their own, and even more so to feel the need to gender check a player. Take a person born of one gender, living as another, attempting to participate in life as normally as possible, and humiliate them for being different. Cause irreparable emotional trauma for $200. All over a pool game?
Point being, women players do not need a knight in shining armor. Let women manage women's pool. Observe if you like, but otherwise stay out of it. Respectfully so.
A simple fix for this, instead of WOMEN ONLY events, have "skill limited" events. Because really that is what it comes down to. No one dumps women into another category just because they are women, they have their own tournaments because most will not be able to play with the pro level or strong amateur men. And sadly many that do have the skill to play with the better players chose not to for the simpler win against the C players.
Make a real open pro tournament and then instead of a women event, make a amateur event like what Predator tour does. Then it does not matter if it's a guy dressed like a woman that plays better than the real women, if he/she is good enough, you can't play in the secondary event, penis or no penis.
A simple fix for this, instead of WOMEN ONLY events, have "skill limited" events. Because really that is what it comes down to. No one dumps women into another category just because they are women, they have their own tournaments because most will not be able to play with the pro level or strong amateur men. And sadly many that do have the skill to play with the better players chose not to for the simpler win against the C players.
Make a real open pro tournament and then instead of a women event, make a amateur event like what Predator tour does. Then it does not matter if it's a guy dressed like a woman that plays better than the real women, if he/she is good enough, you can't play in the secondary event, penis or no penis.