‘Cambridge bans trans rowers from women’s race’ - no, it banned men ‘The men’s captain of Darwin College boat club told the student paper that the changes were morally unacceptable’ The student paper missed a chance to ask ‘What’s it got to do with you’ telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11…

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Good. Another small win. It’s a slow process but we’ll get normality and reality back in the end.
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How many “trans men” are rowing with the men?
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Is it the dearth of Subbies? Why do you have to keep correcting the Telegraph, Mail, Times et al? Why is there no let-up of the gaslighting?
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Banned male from the women's team. Adult human females. Hand on scale much Telegraph? @TheTelegraph__
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What a peculiar story. The men’s captain of Darwin… Presumably this chap knows something about Charles Darwin? And knows about sexual dimorphism in our species? How then could he come to this peculiar position on morality? Perhaps his idea of morality is doing everything possible to give Cambridge an advantage in competition? Perhaps by filling every seat in the women’s shells with men he hopes to achieve total dominance? Perhaps he thinks that no other competitor will do the same? A strategy that belongs in Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene, and not in any college rowing club.
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Is it because after the boat race ....the winners dip their cocks in the water...?!
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Men's Captain : Ben Howarth Women's Pair coach : 'Rosie Baish'
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Why didn't the men's captain welcome the males onto his team???
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A more interesting question might be: ‘How many trans rowers have been banned from the men’s race?’
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'... those signing up to the women’s category must now have been born female, with trans women able to compete in the newly-established “open” division where any rowers can take part.'
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Morally correct
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One wonders what moral structure this men’s captain follows.
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A step in the right direction.
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"Missed" it? No, they likely ignored it.
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Well, good news, captain. You can have another dude on your team.
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I guess he doesn’t want the men in his team? They must be insufferable.
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I think they are deliberately doing this...not because they believe it. But they know it will spark comments and eyeballs. Plus people will put it online....giving them more coverage, which they gain from advertisement money.
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Not to those of us with morals, they aren’t, matey.
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Good, if it's true, but these people tend to play games with word meanings.
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For every transvestite man in the women's boat they have to have a transvestite woman in the men's boat.
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Cambridge bans trans rowers from women’s boat race Activists accuse university of ‘campaign of exclusion’ after vote by captains archive.ph/xYGkG
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Maybe the men's captain doesn't want to have to deal with these male narcissistic larpers? I swear, it's always men leaping to defend these cosplaying creeps.
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Why, he's a man isn't he? Who better to comment on this blatant obstruction of men's entitlement to trample of women's rights whenever they feel like it.
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Very easy for the male captain to call it morally unacceptable. It will never effect him.
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Don't be so bloody daft, if you put a man in there the boat will go round in circles. Rowers have to be fairly matched in power. Sighs.
So how many trans men are rowing for the men’s team 🤔 I’ll guess it wouldn’t even be considered.
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Good! It banned men from women’s races, excellent!
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Have you ever thought about the people, who do not qualify for the men's boat? What should they do now, that the women's boat is off limits.
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Suddenly everyone's a pretend feminist. Equal pay? NO Sponsorship? NO Equal coverage? NO Venue and facilities? NO Investment? NO Media interest? NO Exclude transgender women? Oh YES! We'll do THAT and get loads of media support even if the public aren't bothered.
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