SOE Sports, Entertainment & Recreation
SOE Entertainment & Recreation:
SOE Entertainment, and Recreation, can be found across the entire SOE Global Network via the various entertainment, and leisure-focused, SACs (SOE Affiliated Company).
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Web-TV
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Web-Film
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Web-Radio
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Theatre Performances
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Video/Audio/Picture/Book & Short-Story-Sharing Platforms
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Destination Attractions
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Global Guest-Houses
SOE Team Sports:
All SOE Team-Sports are Mixed-Gender. SOE’s case for mixed-gender sports comes down to fan-viewing, and attendance. Since the world of sports, overall, has a majority male fan-base, male sports have higher ratings, as far as viewership, and fan-attendance, than women’s sports. Thus, by merging the two, and having both men, and women, play alongside one another on team sports, SOE is also merging the fan-bases, and increasing support for female athletes.
On SOE Sports Teams, all post-op transgendered athletes are welcomed to participate/compete. The restriction to only post-op transgendered athletes is due to the fact that team members share locker rooms. So, by having both men, and women, on a team, there are now two (2), separate, locker-rooms within each team’s designated area for athletes - one (1) for men, and one (1) for women. As such, all team members sharing a locker-room must have the same body parts from the waist down. Lastly, there can be no more than fifty-five percent (55%) of any one gender on any SOE Sports Team, and/or playing/competing in a game/match.
For example: Football (soccer) teams can be composed of either eighteen (18), or twenty-three (23), players. This means no more than ten (10) players, in the case of an eighteen (18) player team, and no more than twelve (12) players, in the case of a twenty-three (23) player team, can be of a single gender.
Continuing the football/soccer example, as there are eleven (11) players from each team on the pitch (field) during an official match/game, that means no more than six (6) players on the pitch/field, per team, can be of a single gender. Similarly, to ensure that biological advantages are not given to any one gender, there can be no more than one (1) post-op transgendered-person on a team at a time, unless there is an equal number of both transgendered men, and transgendered women, on a team.
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SOE Individual Sports:
SOE Individual/Gender-Specific Sports, in which all individuals are welcomed to participate/compete - men, women, pre-op trans-gendered men, pre-op trans-gendered women, post-op trans-gendered men, and post-op trans-gendered women - will be interesting to watch, as SOE Individual Sports Rules state that all competitors may only enter the Gender Category under which they were born.
SOE Individual Sports Rules example: A pre, or post-op, Trans-Woman Boxer (a born-male who has transitioned into looking/presenting as female) may only enter into the Men’s Boxing Competition. And a pre, or post-op, Trans-Man Boxer (a born-female who has transitioned into looking/presenting as male) may only enter into the Women’s Boxing Competition.
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There are two (2) locker-rooms within each of the two (2), separate, designated areas for Men, and Women. And, within each designated area, all athletes sharing a locker-room must have the same body parts from the waist down. For example: post-op trans-women athletes (biological males who now present as females with female genitals), who are competing in the Men's Category, have a separate locker-room in the Men's Area, from the locker-room of both the male athletes (biological males with male genitals), and the pre-op trans-women athletes (biological males who present as female, but still have male genitals), competing in the Men's Category.
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SOE Individual Sports Rules, are to maintain fairness, and ensure that biological-males and biological-females are never pitted against one another in a head-to-head Sporting Competition. Despite the strive for fairness, there is still controversy around the rules pertaining to Trans Athletes. This is because trans-women athletes (biological males who transitioned into looking/presenting as females) feel they are at a disadvantage when competing in any Men's Category, due to chemical hormone regimens, which make them "weaker" than their male competitors. Similarly, trans-men athletes (biological females who transitioned into looking/presenting as males), due to chemical hormone regimens which make them "stronger/faster", are seen as having an advantage over their female competitors, when competing in any Women's Category. However, as it has been scientifically-proven, chemical hormones do not put trans-women athletes at such a "disadvantage" when compared to females, that their skills, and stature, match those of biological women, and the chemical hormone regimens of trans-men athletes, when compared to males, do not give them such an "advantage" that their skills, and stature, match those of biological men. Thus, per these scientific findings, SOE Individual Sports Rules remain enforced.
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Individual/Gender-Specific Sports examples:
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Boxing
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Wrestling
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Tennis
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Table Tennis
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Golf
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Javelin
According to, and in spite of, SOE's currently-established parameters for Individual Sports, there could very well be a poster advertising a Sporting Match featuring what appears to be Man versus Woman.
For example: a Man (a born-male who is - looks/presents as - a Man), and a Trans-Woman (a born-male who transitioned into looking/presenting as a Woman), will both be registered as Competitors in the Male Category. The same could be said of a Woman (a born-female who is - looks/presents as - a Woman) competing against a Trans-Man (a born-female who transitioned into looking/presenting as a Man). Although both would be registered as Competitors in the Female Category, the poster would still appear as though the Match were Woman vs. Man.
No matter your personal opinions, between mixed-gender teams, and transgender-integration, the world of Sports - Team, and Individual - will get significantly more interesting for everyone to watch.
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