BECAUSE HIS GENETIC ADVANTAGES HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE NATURE OF THE COMPETITION CATEGORY ITSELF OH MY GOD THE MICHAEL PHELPS ANALOGY IS SO FREAKING STUPID AND WRONG AND I AM SO TIRED OF PEOPLE GIVING IT LIKE THEY ARE HIGH-MINDED WHEN IT IS THE LOWEST OF THE LOW-BROW ANALOGY THAT DOES NOT ACTUALLY WORK AT ALL.

She adds that “a woman can be a woman and still not be permitted to participate in women’s sports.”

She has XY chromosomes according to Hogshead-Makar. This is an INCREDIBLY important detail that all the Deadspin writers intentionally omit. That, along with the highly elevated T levels should pretty much end the debate.

But but he never stopped to think about whether he SHOULD do it!

I’d actually like to see both of them, and Ewan McGregor on Ride, with Norman Reedus. 

Ewan McGreggor stands in the corner crying.

True, it seems like every story about some 23 yo guy killing himself on a bike mentions him leaving behind a girlfriend and a baby. Bad decisions all around.

That’s some backward ass logic. A bike whose design and legal use are for off road and you’re arguing for riding them on public streets and sidewalks and telling people to move to the boonies if they don’t like it. The boonies which is the natural habitat of the dirt bike and a place where the enjoyment factor of…

You know, I was originally against it when those stories broke, but not anymore. I’m fully in support of NYC adopting a London style “run them down” tactic. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

That doesn’t make her transphobic

I mean, then why have gendered divisions at all? If you approach the question with as little nuance as you display here, just let men and women compete against each other in every sport.

yeah - she hired a trans coach for 3 years in her prime, and that makes her a transphobe? you are shitting on someone who was a PIONEER for lesbians, who spoke out against the evils of communism, who dominated the sport for decades. 

While not a perfect solution, this is why in some cases (off the top of my head, the Olympics) a competing trans person has to have been medically transitioning for at least a specific amount of time, meet certain hormones levels, and I think a couple other metrics. On paper, this at least brings them on level with…

and your average dude is NOT good enough to beat the best women in the world.

These comments are a riot.

Splinter Commies and their enablers treating that country and it’s human suffering like an ideological pawn. It’s pretty gross

Why will no one stand up for this poor racist woman?

You’re a fucking idiot.

None at all is perfectly acceptable if the purpose of registering and plates is truly what they say it is. Nobody is saying that the gov’t has to or should be a platform for anyone’s message at all. I’m perfectly OK with them choosing not to be. What is unacceptable is them playing content filter and selectively…

Reasson has been on a roll when it comes to gathering actual facts and objective reporting.