Comments Are Food For Thoughts

A comment on the previous picture below made me thinking.

Maybe one day there will be a 'Trans Category' in sports competitions?

Though I think that would be a peak of hypocrisy, knowing that so many athletes from both male/female genders have been dosing themselves for decades with hormones, EPO and the likes of it.

I remember as a child/teen seeing these RDA and USSR female athletes (e.g. swimmers) who were so masculine in the way their body were built that they seemed to belong to a third gender.

Let's face it: sports competitions, especially international ones, are no longer solely about sportive performance and achievements, but are a mean to 1) make money, 2) relay messages from nations/races/political ideology.

The 1936 Olympic Games were a game changer - pun intended - by revealing worldwide that the true competition goes beyond stadiums and arenas.

The pride was from then on misplaced and forever went from celebrating performance through athletic work and training (the advertised goal) to beating one another's cause. And in the middle of all this, athletes became easy puppets to manipulate.

As unfortunate as it may seem to the commoners, it's been that way since the Greeks, Romans and any other culture as a way for a city/province/state to show outside a battlefield their superiority. Only in our contemporary world it is more advertised and therefore obvious.

Back to the matter: for starters I propose that the International Olympic Committee leads the way and shares its means (and treasure chest) with the LGBT/whatever community to freely organise their own ways of competing within the Olympic Games.

As much as categorising things and people is human - it's an animal reflex - I believe that integration has more value than rejection.

Thank you Anon, you made my day better.