{"id":630,"date":"2018-04-29T09:34:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T09:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.uccronline.it\/eng\/?p=630"},"modified":"2018-08-16T11:26:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T11:26:37","slug":"transgender-volleyball-player-death-of-sport-influential-physiologist-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uccronline.it\/eng\/2018\/04\/29\/transgender-volleyball-player-death-of-sport-influential-physiologist-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgender volleyball player? \u00abDeath of sport\u00bb, influential physiologist says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/new.uccronline.it\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/trans-pallavolo2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-631\" src=\"http:\/\/new.uccronline.it\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/trans-pallavolo2-300x268.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a>They also want to destroy the sport. The Lgbt lobby is defending the precence of <strong>trans people in women&#8217;s volleyballs<\/strong>, but the female players preparing a class action. The sporting ethics is in danger, said Italian luminary\u00a0<strong>Arsenio Veicsteinas<\/strong>, tenured Professor of Physiology at the State University of Milan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All-out war against women: gay Senator <strong>Sergio Lo Giudice<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 who has purchased a child and taken him away from his biological mother\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/new.uccronline.it\/2017\/02\/17\/le-bolognesi-contro-il-senatore-gay-lo-giudice-ha-cancellato-la-maternita\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wants teach<\/a><\/em>\u00a0the meaning of motherhood to the Italian women; from the USA we heard of the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2017\/feb\/21\/candace-wiggins-stanford-university-basketball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">testimony<\/a><\/em> to basketball player <strong>Candice Wiggins<\/strong>, who withdrew because she was discriminated and bullied as heterosexual; the gay community <em><a href=\"http:\/\/80.241.231.25\/Ucei\/PDF\/2017\/2017-02-23\/2017022335426891.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">denies<\/a><\/em> entry to women, as if they were animals. Today, a transsexsual man wants to play against female players. And feminists? They are silent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The case has arisen with <strong>Tiffany (Rodrigo) Pereira<\/strong>, a Brazilian trans who plays for Golem Palmi, a volleyball team in Italian A2 Female League. Other teams feel disadvantaged and sport is in danger because a &#8220;rush to transgender players&#8221; may occur. The Millenium team&#8217;s president <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuttosport.com\/news\/pallavolo\/2017\/02\/22-21950586\/caso_palmi_brescia_con_tre_trans_vinciamo\/?cookieAccept\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>said<\/em>:<\/a> <i>\u00abWhat happens if we go to Brazil, hire three transsexuals and bring them to play in the female A2 championship? We win the championship, but that&#8217;s not fair\u00bb<\/i>. <i>\u00abThey&#8217;re cheating, they make a man play instead of a woman against other women\u00bb<\/i>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sopralanotizia.it\/?p=35344\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a><\/em> <strong>Teresa Moro<\/strong>. Rodrigo <i>\u00abknows he has a male body: he has the muscle tone, bone density and physical strength of a person with XY genetic heritage. I&#8217;m a woman and I say: it is not chivalrous for a man to spike the ball on a woman. <strong>It&#8217;s cowardly<\/strong>\u00bb<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Those who defend Rodrigo <em><a href=\"http:\/\/brescia.corriere.it\/notizie\/sport\/17_febbraio_22\/squadra-pallavolo-ingaggia-transessuale-avversarie-pronte-class-action-4395d1fc-f8db-11e6-ae6b-f2dcdeebb2b6.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed<\/a><\/em> that he is\u00a0<strong>weakened by the hormone treatment<\/strong>. But this is not the issue.\u00a0 <strong>Is it is enough<\/strong> to be physically weak to be called &#8220;woman&#8221;? <strong>Is<\/strong> the woman <strong>just<\/strong> a man with long hair and small muscles? Is a hormonal question the only difference between men and woman? Is it enough to wear a mask to be really Harlequin? <strong>The answer is &#8220;no&#8221;<\/strong>! In the name of respect for women and men, the opposite should happen: but no woman, even disguised as and exteriorly resembling a man, will ever consider playing in the professional volleyball male team and receive smashes at 50 km\/h by Ivan Zaytsev.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A important luminary of human physiology, Dr.\u00a0<strong>Arsenio<\/strong> <strong>Veicsteinas<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>from the State University of Milan and Dean of Science of movement Department, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/80.241.231.25\/Ucei\/PDF\/2016\/2016-01-26\/2016012632276505.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>:<\/em>\u00a0<i>\u00abThe etichs of sport is to compete on <strong>equal terms<\/strong>. Who is born male has male anatomical features. If you choose to change your sex, you always <strong>keep your DNA<\/strong>, despite the hormone treatment. All this seems to me so superficial and demagogic, descending from a mistaken tendency of our day to open everything to everyone. Fair play is being undermined especially for a man who turns into a woman: in the face of the protests of a woman, how can we say that the game was played on equal terms?\u00bb<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yet, the confused modern man is manipulated like a puppet by <strong>major powers<\/strong> (and the gay power is one of the main ones), and struggles even to understand the most obvious facts. <i>\u00abEach of us can become what he wants\u00bb<\/i>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.intelligonews.it\/articoli\/10-marzo-2015\/23338\/gender-a-trieste-parla-luxuria-se-il-bambino-gioca-con-la-bambola-impara-meglio-a-fare-il-pap-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a><\/em>\u00a0transsexual Vladimiro Guadagno (aka <strong><i>Luxuria<\/i><\/strong>). <i>\u00abThis must be said seen the beginning, by acting on children, not to find ourselves tomorrow with sexist and chauvinist adults\u00bb<\/i>. Tricking the children, getting into the schools, destroying the sporting ethics in the name of a <i>\u00abideological colonisation\u00bb<\/i>, as Pope Francis <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.osservatoreromano.va\/it\/news\/due-anni-di-pontificato\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has called<\/a><\/em> it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>\u00ab\u201cSex change\u201d is biologically impossible\u00bb<\/i>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/paul-mchugh-transgender-surgery-isnt-the-solution-1402615120\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explained<\/a><\/em> <strong>Paul R. McHugh<\/strong>, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at theJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine. \u00ab<em>People who undergo sex-reassignment surgery do <strong>not change<\/strong> from men to women or vice versa. Rather, they become feminised men or masculinised women\u00bb<\/em>. Nobody is born in a &#8220;wrong body&#8221;, even volleyball player Rodrigo. We hope that the class action will go on, in the name of respect of sport and of womanhood.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Editorial Staff<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiffany (Rodrigo) Pereira, a Brasilian trans who play with Golem Palmi. But \u201csex change\u201d is biologically impossible, says Arsenio Veicsteinas from State University of Milan. 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