The IOC's recent declaration that transgendered athletes may compete in their chosen gender has now reached the rowing world. Athletes at a lightweight-laden club in Boston were seen scouring the Yellow Pages for sex-change clinics after a recent extremely dismal series of three-mile pieces.
Semi-lightweight club member Joe Bagadonuts is "all over it."
"If you thought i was a tweenie before, this is going to blow your mind," he said. "I'll be a buck-one hundred and change in about two weeks, even without certain body parts, which don't weigh that much anyway. And hey, as I tell everyone here pretty much every time I get drunk, I'm a lesbian trapped in a man's body."
"From tweenie to queenie - not a bad career move if you ask me," said the club head coach, who was interviewed while checking airfares to Beijing. "For these guys, I guess it's not really such a big leap if you think on it."
Chuck Alexander, executive director of the Masters Rowing Association, said the MRA would support the athletes' decision, and would consider adding a category to MRA-sponsored masters regattas when the athletes moved into masters rowing. "The mixed single seems to make a lot of sense here," Alexander said.