This case has nothing to do with Semenya being a WoC other than being from a developing country, she was not able to have certain medical interventions early in life which may have changed how her body produces which hormones in what amounts.
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The “female” category in athletic competition isn’t for people who identify with a particular gender. It was created to ensure female athletes had a place where they could be competitive, elite athletes. Because of differences between male and female bodies which give men an overwhelming competitive advantage at the…
The “sex testing” regime was created in the ‘60s in response to concerns about eastern bloc athletes. The first person prevented from competing in an international competition because of the results of a chromosomal test was a Spanish hurdler in the ‘80s. All white people. This NYT Sunday Magazine article on sex…
Why even have a primary? We should just declare Biden the candidate and avoid the circular firing squad of talking about policy positions and actions someone took while involved in government or leading powerful senate committees. The only legitimate topic of conversation during primary season is apparently “just…
Well, good to see you all are still ready to wield wokeness as a cudgel to take down any candidate to the left of a republican from 1975. I’m sure it’s all in good faith.
Oh, definitely. Why would anyone care about what the putative front-runner in the Democratic primary did while he was chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee? We need to talk more about an article Sanders wrote while he was outside of any level of government! That’s the important stuff which gives us an insight in to…
Totally. Just like how President Jeb Bush cruised to victory. Because voters didn’t really want a (pretend) “anti-establishment” shift. I mean, the primary is only more than a year away and we’ve had 0 debates where Biden will actually have to discuss his record rather than just remind Democratic primary voters he had…
No question. The vast majority of Democratic legislators are old and/or millionaires (not Biden funnily enough. He’s just old) who will not be at all impacted by another 4 years of trump. Not to mention a whole lot of them would salivate at the chance to blame “the left” for losing to trump instead of obviously…
My wife and I went to lobby against the bill the day the GA senate was set to vote for it. We watched on the cctv feed the various senators who spoke about why they supported or opposed the bill.
Wait, when did we invade Saudi Arabia and topple the Al-Saud monarchy? It must have been a very quick and precise surgical strike because I totally missed it. What did the Taliban have to do with 9/11?
You enjoy casual antisemitism and hate reading. A lovely combination.
When we have a Scandinavian distribution of income then we can have a Scandinavian distribution of the tax burden. Until then, the rich in America have plenty more fat to cut before we have to start looking further down the income ladder.
Biden is going to get fucked up in the debates. Warren better be on the same stage as him. He has multiple votes that are inexcusable, even to “moderate” Democratic voters. The most egregious being the 2005 bankruptcy bill which is Warren’s specialty. Though I would not be surprised if the DNC does whatever it can to…
“I think a Bernie nomination would almost certainly draw someone like Bloomberg in as an independent candidate....To me, that’s reason enough to shy away from Bernie...”
The origin of “gender testing” came out of the eastern bloc doping programs of the 1950s. Until 1966 there were physical tests where all athletes had to get naked and be looked at by an official. After ‘66 they used chromosome testing. The first athlete to actually get banned because they failed the chromosome test…
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…
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…