The disparity in the size of girls’ and boys’ youth sport leagues and their funding is also huge.

Poor countries aren’t “developing”. They’ve been ransacked by colonialism and imperialism. 

My point is only we have no idea how sex innately affects performance because we aren’t measuring it on an even playing field. And the presumption that it has a sizable effect further instills the inequities of the playing field. We likely won’t know for generations and it will require we let go of that presumption to…

So you agree, the size of the pool you’re drawing athletes from has a predictive affect on the performance of your top athletes - ie leagues that are double or triple the size of another will have better athletes?

Caster Semenya’s condition is only public knowledge because of rules around testing athlete’s testosterone levels and comparing those to “typical” levels of men or women. An intersex person competing in mens’ leagues wouldn’t have testosterone levels higher than those of a typical man so wouldn’t draw any attention or…

The current women’s record in the 100 meter is the same as the men’s record from 1929. Given that women’s sports were basically non existent at the high school and college level until maybe 50 years ago, and are still significantly underfunded and under-cultivated, that’s kind of remarkable. Less than half as many…

If they really wanted fair competition they wouldn’t be pitting athletes who have million dollar sponsorship deals and top tier coaches who’ve been able to train full time since they were 11 in world class sports facilities up against part time amateur athletes from third world countries. The idea that anything about…

Do you think that something about being American gives an athlete inherent advantage and that that explains the US’s disproportionate dominance in the medals race at the Olympics? Or that being American makes an athlete inherently better at basketball and worse at soccer and that explains the US’s performance in those…

Right, but given that money is of no factor to them, they could be choosing any kind of career they want, no matter what it pays, and they’re choosing one that seems like daily torture to themselves that also actively harms others. I get that the point is their fathers’ abuse and the allure of power have so thoroughly…

I find myself a lot less invested in the show this season because its become completely obvious that every single character would be 1000x happier if they just fucked off enjoyed their billions - or I suppose mere hundred millions once its divided up- and cultivated some vanity career/passion project, rather than…

If a church does active harm to people, as Evangelical churches do, it’s fair to criticize their members, however covert they are about their participation in that harm.

Its just incredibly self centered to post - “look how much this person likes me!” - rather than posting about how much YOU like THEM. Like her best attribute is her opinion of you, really?

I fear having a disabled child too and I know that I would probably abort if my fetus had some specific diagnoses during pregnancy. But so many of the fears people have revolve around such slight levels of disability. Thalidomide is an interesting example because a missing limb is not that big a deal. Definitely not…

There is a lot of ablism tied up in these fears. People fear the specter that their future child might have some developmental delays or neuro-divergence more than they fear actual death.

The terminology you’re looking for is “cis woman”. A woman who was assigned the female gender at birth/who is not trans is a cis woman. A person who identifies as a man but was assigned the female gender at birth can either be referred to as a “trans man” or as “assigned female at birth”.

No actually only TERFs feel that way. What someone else is called is not at all as relevant to a person as what they themselves are called. Insisting that someone else’s terminology has ANY material effect on another person is absurd.

Abortion pills are abortion. Abortion pills are affective until 11 weeks of pregnancy.

Yeah, the issue is when there are two girls in an entire town who want to play high school basketball - not enough for their own team, so they play with the boys.

I think that all of those concerns could be better addressed in the legal system without centering them around households headed by two people in a long term sexual/romantic relationship. 

Yeah, I really wonder if the people freaking out about school sports understand that part of Title IX is a requirement that all children have access to participate in school sports - and that because of that the vast majority of children playing on opposite sex teams are cis girls playing on boys’ teams because the…