That’s the point. This is now a political issue for people who don’t want there to be any physiological way to “split” between men and women (or male and female). The anger with this decision is it suggests to some people testosterone levels above X make one no longer a “woman” or “female”, even if only for specific…
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Because the men compete in an “open” category. That’s why there is no restriction on maximum natural testosterone levels. Why do you think we have separate categories for male and female athletes? We already accept there is not a level playing field between male and female athletes in certain sporting competitions.
The comparison to Phelps, or anyone who competes in the “male” category, is specious and ignores the actual issue at hand. Semenya wants to compete in a “restricted” category. The case was about discerning what are reasonable restrictions and whether Semenya should have to abide by them. If Semenya wanted to compete…
Of course it’s because he’s male. That’s the whole point. Phelps competed in the “male” category which is effectively the “open” category. If Semenya wanted to compete in the “open” category no one would care about her natural testosterone levels. But she wants to run in the “restricted” category. So she needs to…
White athletes have been subjected to the “sex verification tests” for decades. Maria José Martínez Patiño, a 24-year-old Spanish hurdler, was the first athlete disqualified because of results discovered in the test. Starting in 1966, every female athlete was required to undergo a mandatory “genital check” before…
No. That is not true at all. And the EU are those “developed countries” to which I was referring. The drug companies make a profit with their sales in the EU and other developed countries with regulations on drug prices. The companies don’t stay in business because they subsidize losses in every other country on earth…
“You can’t just mandate lower prices for an industry”
It’s impossible with the way the federal judiciary has been taken over by 12 year olds from the federalist society kindergarten. There needs to be a re-writing of anti-trust law which prevents the Bork style “consumer welfare standard” from being used to allow monopolies to go wild.
Semenya is a woman who has higher levels of testosterone than most women, like Michael Phelps has longer arms than most men.
Maduro was elected and reelected in 2013 and 2018.
Who on the right has put forward such a proposal? If your non-existent right winger was an actual legislator then maybe you’d have a point. But since the left has spent about 30 years actively implementing every right wing version of the left’s policy goals (e.g. EITC, the ACA, cap and trade emissions, etc.) your…
Her run against Kemp was an aberration in her mostly blah record as a GA House rep and House minority leader. She really leaned in to “resistance” and other more liberal rhetoric that had been pretty absent from her previous runs and time in office. So I’m not surprised to see she’s not up for a difficult and…
If fucking John Ossoff runs, we in GA are fucked. He is the worst and needs to go find something else to do than continually lose elections. His campaign for GA-6 was the most boring, milquetoast, about nothing campaign I’ve seen in GA. And GA Dems looooove to run campaigns about nothing in an attempt to not offend…
Hahaha! I actually love Joe now! He’s showing how people who claim to care about WoC actually don’t give a shit about real WoC like Anita Hill. They only “care” about using WoC as a cudgel to beat their enemies. Thank you for being so refreshingly honest.
That’s why he is the MAGA Democratic candidate. He is actively running as the “guy who want’s to make everything great again. Like it was in 20015". Biden’s strategy is appealing to old people who don’t like trump but think the reaction to trump has brought out the worst in people. Like complaining too much about…
I didn’t see the article where the writers said they will never, ever, ever, vote for anyone other than Sanders in the general election in 2020. Could you point it out to me maybe? Or does “Bernie or Bust” mean something different than it meant in 2016? I am seeing on twitter that it apparently means “say anything…
Helen Sigmond, Democrat and member of the Alamosa County Commission: “My goodness, they’re trying to make it sound horrible,” she said of Republican accusations of Democrats’ socialism. “But my goodness, who is Trump’s best friend? Putin.”
The right all over the world has since the 70s been doing everything it can to force individuals to depend more and more on asset appreciation for their well-being and long term survival. From the move to individual 401ks, IRAs, etc. in the US to “right to buy” council housing in the UK. They desperately want the…
I liked that Arya was the one who killed the Night King, but how the fuck did she get through the thousands of wights and all the White Walkers so fast she could launch a running jump attack?
I don’t think Joy Reid set up anything. She’s too buys thinking about how much she hates gay and trans people to spend time thinking about how to get Sanders. It was pretty woke of SheThePeople to get noted homophobe Joy Reid to moderate their discussion.