alright so, this is straw that just broke the camels back..how can any publication with a semblance of integrity purport to be a feminist website w/a straight face yet publish an article about the most obvious, clear cut and straight forward, case of title vii/ix discrimination on the basis of sex. Honestly, these…

Fuck this article. Yea the only way for equality to happen is to let men dominate women’s sports. 

I don’t understand this argunent at all. Isn’t the whole argument for trans rights that sex and gender are different? You can be born a certain biological sex but identify as whatever gender you feel? Well sports are separated by biological sex not gender. How is that not the end of the argument? 

The disconnect between older and younger folks on sex vs gender is that they are no longer synonyms. Gender has evolved to be something that’s identity-based and not genetic. Sport separates people by their genetic sex. A person who identifies as female but is genetically male is cool. We’re supposed to be over that.…

Did she win or did the boy throw the race? Seems awfully convenient that this first ever win over him came AFTER the lawsuit was filed. Another reason why males should not be in track competitions against females --- they can hang back in regular meets to fake the appearance of “fairness” and then suddenly always have…

There’s an easy fix to this, allow trans athletes to compete against other trans athletes. If it’s a good enough solution for male and female athletes, then why isn’t it good enough for transgender athletes?

The argument here completely fails once you remember some individual sports have things like weight classes. No high school wrestling org would ever put a 100 pound freshman boy against a a 220lb senior and just say "there are always competitive advantages so just deal." There are better ways than this to rightfully…

What an incredibly poor article. No research, no nuance, no carefully presented argument. Just blind dogma. Truly one of the very worst articles Jezebel has ever written.

Men’s sports are in most instances, including swimming, an “open-class” event. Unless you are doping, using unapproved equipment, or have some other illegal advantage not based upon talent or work ethic, you can compete.

I think your analysis of comparing it to height in basketball is fairly inaccurate. Basketball and other sports incorporate a plethora of skills, the defining metrics are often shown on a web, there’s multiple stats taken for comparison. So in the WNBA or NBA or anywhere, someone who is shorter may succeed because…

Divisions in sports should be based on biological sex, not gender. So a girl that was born male would race against boys and as long as no one is a dick about it it should be fine. 

You’d have to be real fucking stupid to not believe their birth sex to be a huge advantage in competitive sports. Like, really fucking stupid. Stupid enough to deny a huge statistically significant difference between their average physical abilities. Stupid enough to call that, oh, just another common advantage /…

I didn't read it that way. There are some absolutely horrible genetic diseases that leave people suffering and then dead at an early age. I don't think it's a bad thing to prevent those. 

Yeah they’ve been out of cc philly for a while but I remember avoiding them at all costs. People with bullhorns are to be avoided, but after hearing some of their rhetoric at like 14..... oof. Good for you for laughing. Telling a woman she should be shot doesn’t seem non violent to me.

Getting screamed on by a bullhorned Black Hebrew Israelite for being a black woman on the street in short sleeves in the god damn summer is still one of my Top Ten NYC WTF moments.

I’m 29 and 21 year olds look like high schoolers to me lol. I mean, she is of legal age, so I’m not calling him Roman Polanski, but I personally don’t get it! A few years ago I was at a party and I found out someone brought their 19 year old little brother along. I got super uncomfortable when someone told me how old…

Ghislainecstill has all the deets. I’m hoping (maybe in vain) that she is the key to his network. I also don’t see her as likely to be so invested in taking it to the grave.

I’m the last person to consider myself a “Swifty” but having read the article, it strikes me as a tad disingenuous to leave behind the context in the author claiming advocacy / representation in her chosen “Welcome to New York” quote. In full it reads “And you can want who you want. Boys and boys and girls and girls”…

I am in agreement that the stigma surrounding herpes far surpasses its actual impact, but if this is how Dr. Shah counsels her patients I hope I never have sex with any of them or for that matter, anyone who has hooked up with them.

Condoms do not completely protect against herpes, but they do reduce chances of transmission, especially for people with vaginas. If you have a vagina and are having PIV sex, your chances of getting herpes go down if the person with the penis wears a condom. Again, it does not eliminate risk; it reduces risk.