Transgender Athlete Hannah Mouncey On Why FINA's 'Open Category' In Swimming Won't Work
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- With the world's swimming body, FINA, announcing its policy on transgender athletes, a debate has begun as to whether it's the right call. Transgender athlete Hannah Mouncey tells us what is problematic about the plans for an 'open category'.
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How can either Hannah or Lia feel good about themselves when they clean house at competitions? There is no challenge.
Someone who can feel good about doing what they do can only be delusional or utterly selfish.
Since when did they clean house? Lia won a single event, she was the 8th best distance swimmer in the US pre transition and the 32nd best at 500yrds in the US. After a year dropped to 488th. Whatever advantage she had is pretty much gone.
Her times are on par with the other competitors if you look at all her other races through the 2021 season.
Ask the woke left
@@laurafionarhiannon1205 So he is a failed sportsman who is now a failed sportswoman. Time she gave up her medal to a true sportswoman who deserved it, not a pre trans. Now lets look at Hannah and his size. Go watch him play footy and u will wonder why no woman wants to face him. Hannah is the biggest con.
@@laurafionarhiannon1205 He's a man and always will be. Cope
Hannah is literally towering over her teammates. Where is the objectivity?
Thank god 🙌🏽 finally women can stop being scared to go into sports
Looool women weren't that scared
Nah. Women athletes knew that these transgender athletes were cheating the system
BIGOT!
"If it came to the science of it..." Fina ruled based on advice from scientists. That's why it has the weird age cut off as they determined that the advantages start in puberty and not all are reversed with hormone treatments later on.
Unbelievable. He says only listen to trans athletes as "they've been through the transition so know about it" but ignore the opinion & experience of female athletes who have lived their whole lives as females. If a female can't possibly know what it's like to be trans, how can he possibly know what it's like to be female?
Kids get into good high schools based on sport, they have to compete against boys now?
@@jayz8839 that is litteraly only US thing
how about you read a biology book, and stop the discrimination ? we are all the same.
@@itsMe_TheHerpes Can you share what specific biology book and specific pages please
Finally. It was so unfair to women
Trans and intersex are not the SAME.
Basic facts
Absolutely!
Going through puberty as a biological male has an advantage. Anyone saying otherwise is denying science or being willfully ignorant. Why not eliminate women’s sport?
FINA did the right thing. If we have to decide between being inclusive or being fair, when it comes to competitive sports, being fair makes more sense.
If this was really about inclusiveness it wouldn’t exclusively effect women’s sport.
Spot on. I'm not that articulate.
I mean people are treating it like its a one size fits all issue, when its more of a case by case situation. 16 years theyve been able to compete at an elite level and so far none have even gotten a podium at the Olympics, 2 winners exist in the US, both of which have performance/times on par with the other competitors. I think the issue is far more nuanced than the media leads you to believe.
Yes lets keep the inferior womens only games then use the money raised form real sport which is good to und the sheltered workshop! AH NO LETS NOT DO THAT! peddle a poor product on your own purse!
Yes, stronger bones, longer ligaments and more leverage.
Watch a team of 12 year old boys vs a team of 12 year old girls of any sports.... There's an argument to be made for benefits occuring even before puberty.
It's been HEAVILY POLITICIZED by your side. You want us to decide based on feelings and gaslighting everyone that science is wrong and that this is right when EVERYTHING is freaking RIDICULOUS!
This is karma. I get that some women saw this coming, but most were loving their little feminist train of sexism, now the stick has come back around.
@@jayz8839 exactly, and this mantra that they say that we are all equal is BS. We are not equal in every way and we should work around it, not force the idea that we all are. There are some women who can do what men can do, and some men can do what women do, but that's SOME, not all.
@@jacquesdaniels2435 The feminists and soy boys have made their bed and chosen their room mates, now they will sleep in it.
Q: "Do you accept that trans athletes have an advantage?"
A: "No not at all"
It makes me sad that people aren't able to see objective reality.
As soon as anyone has this opinion I basically can't trust anything they say.
Womens rights was a phase apparently
An open category isn't a trans woman's category. The open category would allow anyone to compete. It wouldn't be just trans women. It would be filled up by non bianary people, people with intersex disorders and allies who want to compete to show support. It would be another route to the Olympics, Championships and world records. It will be filled up the first year they create it. It will also give trans people who don't want to medically transition or who have just begun transitioning and can't meet testosterone levels a place to compete. This is actually way more inclusive then trying to fit people into two neat little boxes. Everyone could use their preferred names and pronouns and be cheered for who they are. It seems trans women aren't thinking of all the other people that will benefit from this but women every where agree with this and newsflash, women matter too
@@Beanpvp Just like this will be, the Olympics is already on it's last legs because nobody cares, I only care about the NHL so let it all go to Hell for all I care.
And if sex isn't binary as they claim, they're rejection of this idea doesn't make sense or align. These people are more interested in being seen as women even though sex supposedly isn't binary, and partaking the benefits of competing against biological women, and the special attention. Completely dismissive of what biological women want or need, only themselves.
@@PrettyMoneyLife artificial hormones don't make you a lady
Good point
Was with you until the last line
It's no coincidence that most transwomen athletes break almost all the records in various sport competitions.. there are physical advantages once you've gone through puberty.. bone density, larger lungs, and so on..
Um since when? Please give me an example
@@laurafionarhiannon1205 look at him!, he is a dude with a wig, how is that fair for a real woman; let him compete in his category but not taking advantage of his biology
@@laurafionarhiannon1205 Francis Aaron - Train harder
Check it out for examples.
@@laurafionarhiannon1205 a trans person broke the woman's world record. Lia Thompson broke 27 NCAA records. Do you live under a rock
it is a black and white question if your brain function correctly........
4:37 Look at this though. Look at how Hannah towers over the majority of her peers, and even the one she's as tall as, isn't nearly as stocky in build. That's gotta count for something.
Don't call him a "she"! He's obviously a "non-binary dragon"!
Obviously!
It does. She doesn't care.
They just don't care how women feel, period!
no pun intended
I agree completely
2:20 hannah mouncey, 6'2, 100kg and no advantage over women. HAHAHAHAHA, what a joke.
Why not be an awesome girl in the men's league?
Why do the arguments of trans activist always sound like "Me, me, me, me, me."
Because that's what they are. It's all about respecting their feelings, and screw the rest of us.
Because they literally cant grasp that their feelings arent the most important thing in the world. Feelies come before everything.
Whether an open swimming category works or not is irrelevant to the point that men shouldn't compete against women.
So you are not a physician, or a biologist, or an endocrinologist, or a physiologist or a medical researcher.
And yet you claim to know about this intricate science !!!
So does everyone is this comment section, they apparently are all biologists
@@enoughabouteve well doctors do learn biology, physiology, anatomy, pharmacology etc.
And that is how I know that that these people in this video don’t know anything about these topics 😅
You know… these people may have flown under the radar if the trans athletes weren’t 6ft+ and jacked🥴
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, it'd be more acceptable for people if it wasn't 6'7 chads with bull necks trying to compete with dainty 5'6 girls at rugby or sth.
Let's admit it. These trans athletes never wanted fairness. They know damn well they have an advantage.🙄
Yep, hence the real reason why they don't want an open category because that unfair advantage will be gone if they have to compete against other biological males.
This is the reason why they invaded women's sports in the first place because when they were competing with the men, they were weak losers ranking very low, then when they infiltrated women's sports suddenly they're #1, or holding back to get to the #2 spot to not look too obvious.
We have yet to see a biological man (who self ID as trans) end up in last place in a Female only sport, we have never seen that, they're either always dominating or occasionally they'll come in second place against women and girls
Finally this nonsense is being stopped
It's a joke it took this long.
madness should come to an end
Bodies play sport not identities .....12years is pre puberty which allows for intersex to develop and participate as adults...so this will only affect adult men who have all the male attributes given them through puberty to which they can compete in men's sports or open categories ...transmen already compete in women's sports as they are female ...so transwomen should compete in men's sports as they are male...suppressing testosterone in adult males does not take the levels down to females not does it negate those male advantages puberty gives.....it does not stop any sex playing darts snooker or any other sport where physical advantages of biology disadvantage women...this trans person is not telling the whole story...
Its completely banning all trans people from sport and is segregation, simple as that. No 12 year old or kid before 12 is getting hormones, thus is unable to compete.
@jake mr honest i mean they act like every second competitor is trans at that level, when you may get maybe one to three internationally that compete and maybe one thats any decent.
But in 16 years of being allowed in the Olympics no trans man/woman has ever won a podium or broken a WR.
@@laurafionarhiannon1205 It's not segregation. They can play with the other biological males. There's no reason for them to be competing with women.
@@laurafionarhiannon1205 You're a man and always will be
Maybe he could compete in World Class Gaslighting, Division Open.
Why do they keep alluding to "the science" as if they know something we don't
What is “science” these days anyway. It ain’t so black and white anymore.
It's called manipulation and gaslighting....trying to persuade us that what we can see with our own eyes - in this case a massive beefy male competing with women - isn't real and is totally fair and anyone who thinks otherwise is a bigot and a meanie.
Caster Semenya is intersex not transgender.
very interesting that all of the "successful" athletes who are trans are men competing against women! if trans was fair then surely we would have both ways showing success.
Agreed … having an open category is an option for fairness for everyone to participate.
Is this serious?
Who's humouring who
Sorry Hannah, but if a small minority have to suffer for the vast majority, then that's the way it has to be...Women matter too ..
It will work. It'll keep men from beating up on women in women's sports.
there won't be any entrants because they can't get easy prize money by beating up women. Just look at this guy Hannah Mouncey is a beast and obviously is a man not a woman and has no right competing in women's sports!
Huh? Trans women athletes don’t transition just to get easy prize money 💀.
Just make Trans-Olympics. That's so simple! Do they want to compete or make drama?
Compete but you would need more than one person for that
@@animefan7424 Why does the whole of women's sport (women, you know, half the population) have to be upended to accommodate a tiny tiny minority of males? There aren't enough t* males to make it competitive? Compete against your own time/record then.
@@animefan7424 They want to force ppl to watch them beat up women, nobody wants to see that horror show.
who would be interested?
It’s so simple to figure out that would never work, transgender women make up nowhere near 1% of the population how are they going to get to the Olympics? Have fun trying to fill teams of all sports divisions A-D all ages in a small town that struggles to fill those teams with normal people
5:02 Okay but is the amount you can now bench Press etc, consistent with what the other members of Hannah's team can bench?
Hannah plays in a team sport where the differences aren’t exact numbers but a team score. Hannah clearly has the voice of a male and it’s things like that which show that hitting puberty does make a difference. Support trans poeple is a great movement but maybe not in high performance sport where they have an advantage.
If she was 5'7 or something it wouldn't look so bad on the field, even if her voice was even deeper. But when you transition with such a chad physique it is particularly bad optics.
Why is it the majority, if not all, of Transwomen athletes come out in the top of their said sport? Or within the top 5? If we are to believe Transwomen don't have an advantage, and are on the same playing field as Woman, then statistically shouldn't a good portion of them not make it? I never hear about Transwomen Athletes not being on the top of their competition.
it is fair! that's what it is. what isn't fair is having men in women's sport. sport is sex based! why should trans people compete against someone when they have a clear advantage. compete against your sex.
Hannah clearly doesn’t understand that the “open category” includes men. It’s not that there will be just trans women, so fears that there won’t be many of them are unsubstantiated. It’s just that athletes like Hanna will need to train harder to keep up.
They won't compete because, they won't feel like Real men Till they beat real women
even a 12 year old boy will beat a 12 year old girl in almost all sports
Beam me up Scottie, there's no intelligent life down here.
Who is that man they are interviewing?
This has got to be parody.
Well done FINA , thank you for fighting to preserve the right of young girls who can't fight for themselves. I salute you.
No 🏐 🏐 in the pool.
an interview with a man who disagrees with you taking away his advantage..
"Hannah" 🤣🤣🤣
You can spot him from a mile off.
What a flaming joke!
Take your AGP elsewhere mate!
Fairness above all , especially in sports. Is that so difficult to understand?
This is a BLOKE....come on guys.
These people that try this are selfish narcissistic human beings. Happy for you too be who you want to be but not at the expense of your fellow women.
That should have just read " not at the expense of women."
They're not a fellow anything.
They're not a woman.
They're men who like to cosplay womanhood, or their stereotypical perception of it.
Dude looks so overtly masculine I thought it was a parody skit.
That’s a man. Tell me I’m wrong
They said 7 comments but I can't see any one..
Tube U is silencing us. D info workking at full force
@@big_goat after covid everything going bad in world...
@@kiamavani you just got str(y)ked for saying divoc! Smh
Listen to the ladies on this fellas/ZimZer or whatever...
Its called shadow banning.
Cry me a RIVER!
What about me? It isn't fair. I've had enough now I want my shair. Can't you see? I wanna live. But you just take more than you give.
Intersex and transgender are not the same.
I said this some time ago that these sports governing organizations will not bother with case by case basis. If they were to allow, it would be some standard testosterone measurement and they wouldn't take other potential advantages into account. If they banned, they would blanket ban. I think we will see this in other sports in the future.
He has a deeper voice than I have! - that is a dude not a woman. Stop with the delusion, let's be fair in competition.
Hanna is 6’2 and built like a linebacker
Open category is the MOST INCLUSIVE.
Anyone can compete.
Why would anyone listen to the cheat Mouncey, who transitioned to the women's game to raise their profile.
What took you so long to come to this inescapable conclusion?
What utter non sense Mounsey! Compete in the Open category - I am sure both men and women will be in there alongside trans women. This Open category should be embraced by trans people. I am sure many other spots will follow in the next few years.
At least we agree on one thing. It really shouldnt be a debate. The science is in and the science says that men retain a multitude of benefits even without testosterone. Litetally just takes a google search and theres hundreds of studies highlighting the many physiological differences between men and women. Many which arent even affected by testosterone ( eg mechanical advantage of the hip and significantly increased ability at perception of fast moving objects).
Knock it off Thor😂.
😂😂😂
0:41 yes thats a woman alright! 😂😂😂
Sounds like sour grapes
Hannah Mouncey proving FINA’s argument just by looking at him.
No it’s not a disadvantage said by the most manly looking man ever
These people are so delusional
Compete against the same genitals in the lower region. That’s fair! Use common sense please.
You think this is a joke. But its nootttttt.
4mins 38 seconds
Is Hannah a trans woman or trans man? They look like a man is why I’m asking. I’m so confused
Trans “woman”. Sorry but this guy has not tried to be a woman at all, I will not call him one
2:21 smh.
Because it's impossible to fake a drop in your squat and Bench...
What are you talking about?
Well the current system of failed male athletes competing against women doesn’t work neither Harold!!!
Does Hannah Mouncey have a biological sister? What would that person’s capabilities be in their chosen sports?
this guy is a troll
650 dislikes(Vanced TH-cam now shows dislikes).
Hannah 😂
Nice try Henry
His name is Callum.
Not a single transgender woman has competed or is currently competing in women’s swimming at Olympic level. Since the first policy for transgender athletes at Olympic level was introduced in 2003, we have seen more than 63,000 athletes become Olympians. Only two transgender women have made it to the Olympics in this time, and only one competed in Tokyo 2020 (the other was a reserve).
A realistic, fair policy would account for that truth by investigating why transgender athletes are not represented at various levels of play - as opposed to trying to block those who are attempting to participate.
You are so right, why should we spend millions on a separate category to please transgender folks, swim in your biological category, or don't swim at all . . .
No advantage men over women, and the bible says that great city babylon has fallen fallen.😑
It’s all in your head, bloke.
Look how big he is @ 4:45 Compared to all the other real woman
Came from nowhere? Does this dude have watch the news?
“Let’s not beat around the bush” hahahah😂
😂 and he sits there talking in his manly voice with a straight face
Dude is a beast!
Afraid of the competition ey?
GREAT!
Ask Lance Armstrong what lengths athletes will go to to be number 1. This is just an easy way to do it. Not fair for real women, just because you identify as a cat doesn't mean you are a cat.
Ok "Hannah"
Is this the onion? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
funny
bizarre
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