They run in the male “open” category. If Semenya wants to run in the “open” category too then her natural testosterone levels are immaterial and she no longer has to do anything to bring them in to line with certain restrictions. But she wants to run in a “restricted” category. Thus, her testosterone levels must be…
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No. In broader “life” people should most certainly be able to live as they choose, which includes living as the gender with which they identify. But this is elite level competitive athletics. Not just living in the world.
Yes. The real issue here is in part, trans activists and allies are concerned this sets a negative precedent for trans people being able to participate in the sports category which matches the sex (which apparently now is no longer a matter of biology either) or gender with which they identify.
People don’t have a “right” to compete in a specific category in a specific athletic competition. There are plenty of restrictions which discriminate against individuals in order to make it better for “everyone else”. For example, weight categories on all kinds of different sporting events. No one every says it’s a…
It is the cult of “both sides”. Probably because the bigwigs at CNN don’t entirely disagree with the gop’s economic policy program. So they can convince themselves it is a sincere set of beliefs which are just as reasonable as what the Democratic economist hacks who come on the show to say. And if what the right wing…
There are some that aren’t blithering idiots. But they are actively evil with such unpleasant, abhorrent political beliefs even CNN wouldn’t be able to justify giving them a check. Honestly though, that’s the same for the gop’s entire public face. Anyone who is an active republican enough to go on tv and blab about it …
It’s crazy. Kenneth Arrow showed in the 60s (Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Health Care, The American Economic Review, 1963) that “the laissez-faire solution for medicine is intolerable”. He even used equations and shit! But starting in the 70s, the right inserted their ideological beliefs into every area of…
No one is suppressing her “natural abilities”. She’s not being asked to run with her shoes tied together or anything. She’s being asked to make sure her physiology is within the restrictions of the category in which she wishes to compete. Preventing a heavyweight boxer from boxing with featherweights while still at…
She can compete in the male “open” category, or lower her exceptionally high testosterone levels to only “much higher than any other female athlete” and still compete with others in the “female” category. She is still an elite athlete. Just less elite when she doesn’t have male levels of testosterone.
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…
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…