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Unfair sex: Are women athletes right to fear that that their sports will be inva

Started by Shana A, October 24, 2010, 08:24:12 AM

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Shana A

October 24, 2010, 08:24:12 AM
Unfair sex
Luke Coppen
23 October 2010

Are women athletes right to fear that their sports will be invaded by transsexuals?

http://www.spectator.co.uk/essays/all/6392083/unfair-sex.thtml

Lana Lawless, a stocky blonde in her fifties, stepped up to the tee at the 2008 World Long Drive Championship and smashed the ball into a 40 mile per hour headwind. It landed 254 yards away, the length of two-and-a-half football pitches. With that swing, Lawless became women's world champion.

At the turn of the millennium, Lana didn't even exist. Or rather she existed only in the mind of a 17-stone police officer assigned to a gang unit in one of California's roughest cities. Lawless's SWAT team colleagues never guessed that he longed to be 'a normal girl'. In 2005 he had a sex-change operation and began to pursue the title of long-drive queen.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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