Trans debate arrives into Pro woman’s Billiards

[JolietJames]

Or they can just not compete.
It's either unfair to every girl/ woman or possibly unfair to .01% of the population. I can't run in the Kentucky Derby, even if I self- identify as a horse.

 

[hang-the-9]

I understand that. What I meant was that since it doesn't care about the gender thing, why not just have all gender included tournaments. and let the FargoRate sort it all out. In other words let it adjust for the men vs. women thing. Just have tournaments based on FargoRate and not based on gender. Seems like that is what it will eventually have to get to anyway. We dropped separate men's and women's pool leagues pool leagues back in the mid 90s.
Pool, bowling and maybe a few others has a unique position in the sports world in this way.
I do realize there are some male pool players that would be suicidal if they got beat by a woman regardless of a FargoRate handicap.

There are actually quite a few women only leagues (or at least divisions of leagues) around. There are no "male" only events, there are open events, open events that are handicapped and women's events that are open or handicapped. As long as the event is handicapped, there are 0 reasons to block anyone from playing, assuming it's a fair handicap based on skill level not gotten through cheating/sandbagging. And in fact that is the case, I have not seen a men only tournament in a very long time, handicapped or not, so in practice there are no dividing lines here aside from those made by the people themselves that want to be on the outside of the main field.

 

[easy-e]

There are actually quite a few women only leagues (or at least divisions of leagues) around. There are no "male" only events, there are open events, open events that are handicapped and women's events that are open or handicapped. As long as the event is handicapped, there are 0 reasons to block anyone from playing, assuming it's a fair handicap based on skill level not gotten through cheating/sandbagging. And in fact that is the case, I have not seen a men only tournament in a very long time, handicapped or not, so in practice there are no dividing lines here aside from those made by the people themselves that want to be on the outside of the main field.

We actually have a male only event out here from time to time. The women's tour in AZ has a "balls only" even that runs side by side with it.