Floyd Landis :“Who is Phil Gaimon ?”

They do. Dennis Mitchell even had to give up drinking before races.

It’s only ‘erasing her’ if all you ever do is read the headline.

and a figure that not a single healthy woman born with XX chromosomes, ovaries, and producing estrogen at puberty can reach — isn’t a huge human rights travesty. It’s a protection of women’s sports.

They do!  That’s what PED tests are testing for!

Did you forget about the baseball players tied up with Balco and the Clear?

And they do. Your point is invalid.

This wouldn't be news if she wasn't his ex.

I don’t think about fairness = fuck that. I only care if my daughter is happy = I only care about mine. He used better words but the intention is still the same.  

I wonder how the girl who finished 4th and missed the podium’s dad feels about it.

We don’t. In high school we had a female wrestler on our wrestling team. She got thrown around like a rag doll and never won a single match, but she was there.

You’ve nailed the ridiculousness of having no dividing line, and the danger to women’s sports. If you’re going to have women’s sports, you need to create a dividing line (which is, admittedly, arbitrary since there’s no neat line biologically) and defend it. The beauty of the testosterone limit is that it rightly did…

In the women’s 800M, there are 3 women who are intersex and they have only lost to each other in the last two years. In every race. Including Olympics and world championships. They haven’t even lost to the Russian dopers. That’s how wide the gulf is.

I’d agree, except it “not being about competition.” It’s a race, which is the most literal example of competition. Also, his daughter’s times in both the 100m and 200m would not have even qualified her for the finals in either event in the Boys’ division. So, I think it DID have something to do with her success…

If this is truly how you feel, then what’s the point of having males and females compete separately?

Wouldn’t the wrestling analogy go the other way?

I guess. It’s great that he’s supportive, of course, but he comes off pretty selfish to me, like “as long as me and mine get whatever we want, everyone else can get fucked.”

It’s because she is a woman by gender identity only, which in 99% of the cases, is all that matters, but in sports, she is biologically a man with all the advantages that conveys.

As Sarah notes, this is a tricky issue. As far as where transgender people want to take a piss, that’s really their business - use whatever restroom you’re comfortable in. However, this kind of thing affects other people. The biological girls that got their asses kicked in these races have a legitimate gripe, in my,…

This is why privatization is better than nationalization.