I can’t take any minivan concept seriously unless there’s at least one (ideally two) car seat or booster seat, and the entire middle of the car is awash in a foot-deep drift of toys, discarded sweaters, used tissues, and fossilized Cheerios.

I don’t have HBO. I just hope everyone has a nice time and does their best.

Dang, is Sarah Barker still around here? She had a byline last month, it looks like. Her perspective would be valuable for this story.

Booo. Disney shitcanned Harlan Ellison for less - though granted that was decades ago. But I wonder if these kinds of things had gotten back to them in an official capacity.

Haha, you’d think so, right? In practice, I’m not surprised if “random” testing tends to have weird, inexplicable clusters around top-placing athletes and those who seem to be over-performing at any given time.

You’re not being a jerk at all!

You may not be familiar with sports such as powerlifting. By an large, any trained super-heavy-weight will always lift more than a regular heavyweight, and so-on down the line.

By the Court of Arbitration’s own admission, it is “discriminatory - but that the discrimination was “necessary, reasonable and proportionate” to protect “the integrity of female athletics”.”

That’s more or less how passenger rail started out. It was primarily a cargo enterprise and they would cram passengers in here and there in uncomfortable settings. 

Yeah this makes sense to me, and is well put. I definitely agree about the sociological drive behind women’s sports, which is not something I included in my earlier response, but it’s important to consider.

Dolphin’s ok. They’re so cute! Lookit the little fellas. So playful!

I agree with your second point mostly. I don’t have the background to authoritatively agree or disagree with your first point, since I’m not sure where the medical community (or the sports community, or anyone else) draws a line between “female,” “intersex,” and “male.”

I was disappointed to learn the answer wasn’t a track-side accident involving a disintegrator ray and a transporter.

All right. Please explain what you mean?

Over time, I think they’re becoming somewhat arbitrary in the sporting world. Having a hard cutoff at (for example) a particular level of testosterone is showing the rickety-ness of the gender constructs as they are used in sports.

I may not have made the point clearly here. My understanding is that the category of “women” as used by IAAF doesn’t overlap super well with the category of “women” as used in other contexts, because they’re fitting a convenient label over what’s actually a vector of a couple of different factors? I think?

I may have some science wrong here, then.

Also, transgender issues are only one of, like, a million basic questions of rules fairness that powerlifting is going to need to deal with as it becomes a more mature and developed sport.

One of the (not the only) ways to look at the reason separate some men’s and women’s sports exist is that there are 2 statistically different populations out there, and that lumping them together would be inherently unfair (or uninteresting, if you prefer) to one population.

This is cool. Shades of Clara Lemlich here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Lemlich