Everybody brings up their stock performance like they have some kind of argument.  Just swap the heads, intake, carb, and you’re back in business.

The great cars of 1978

Can we just get rid of gender divisions in competition? Let everyone compete against each other in all sports regardless of what you are or were born as. As long as you are a humon athlete is that not what matters? Tell me why I’m a moron, because this is the best solution I’ve come up with.

If the distinction between male and female has no real bearing on athletic performance, then why bother making it? Instead of having separate male and female sports, why not consolidate them all into one? With rare exception, school administrators would love the cost savings. It’s a win for everyone. Why not do it?

Thanks for explaining to me why 2+2=5.  Anyone who disagrees with your viewpoint is clearly a dangerous bigot.  Feeling icky clearly supersedes facts, custom, and common sense as a determining factor in addressing this complex issue.

if women being “weak and small and not competitive” (when elite women are compared to elite men (no best woman vs worst male arguments plz))was only a social narrative and not real then we should be able to have co ed sports across the board, then trans ppl would be a non issue. unfortunately it seems that biological…

The mental calisthenics required to write - and believe - this article are quite impressive.  Proof that human beings can rationalize nearly any argument, no matter how absurd.

“What does gender really have to do with strength?”

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.