Unless you and Burn are talking about different tweets, and maybe you are, their comment is correct. I remember at least 2 tweets from Omar that, unintentionally or not, trafficked in anti-Semitic tropes and language.

Gluttonous Australian Man: *sees name Infinite Tucker*, *passes out*

I seem to remember reading that on TWoP, but could be wrong.

Let's not forget their stellar performance at Mornington Crescent.

There must be a bunch of, like, historically valuable diamonds or cocaine in those watches, right?

Thanks for this as well! The phrase “anglo foolishness” has vaulted straight into my lexicon.

This is sort of a tangent, but Baltimore has historically had a significant Lumbee population! Check it out: https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/opinion/a-quest-to-reconstruct-baltimore-s-american-indian-reservation-mzTrtnNO-UmjJ2zmb1Ok2g/

Yeah. A point I was making in the Caster Semenya articles is that powerlifting is super-vulnerable to outliers right now because it’s a young sport, the rules for what makes a good lift can be weird or vary between feds, and certain outlier people can just come in and basically win at-will if they put the work in.

Yeah. My memory is fuzzy, but I think that might have been part of the reason she gave for dropping out of competing.

Hey, good questions. Here are some things to think about:

1) 1st, it seems like there’s some evidence (or rather, lack of evidence) in the studies cited above that suggests that we don’t know the whole picture about how sex hormones and such affect athletic performance. The findings *seem* to be, as reported above,…

Glad to see powerlifting get covered here! In the conversation here you should also talk about Janae Kroc, who did a lot (I think) to help people understand the issues and process involved in transgender participation in the sport, although I think she retired from competing during the transition process.

Sure. I’m not saying that she isn’t several standard deviations above them.

Maybe you or others (or I) disagree with the line is being drawn, but there still needs to be a line.

Yeah, I mean, we’re definitely handicapped in the process of applying labels to people in sports, by the idea that there’s “supposed to” be a bright line between man and woman, in terms of the social construct of gender, but then it gets all squirrelly in the real world.

Great question. I think it’s dumb to single her out because I don’t think her condition is something that should inherently disqualify her. It does make her very good, and possibly unbeatable, in the context of her competition, but it’s not clear to me that that’s a problem that needs to be fixed, or that a targeted…

I think I’ve heard that too. But what would the suspicion be here? Like, is she suspected of something particularly?

That’s true as well though I’m not an expert on the WR marks or when/how they were set. She’s good, but some of it is that she’s good in context of the current field, I guess?

That’s pretty much what I’m saying. Maybe it didn’t come across. I agree that it’s dumb to single her out.

This looks good, thanks. Looking forward to reading.

Really glad to see you writing on this! Was keeping an eye out for you in this latest round of news. I’m in the camp that she should be allowed to run, but I do think there is some (some) overlap with the weight class argument in terms of being able to group competitors together who might not otherwise have a…