Exactly this. People who are born with a naturally super-human lung capacity aren’t required to take medication to level the playing field, nor are bizarrely tall basketball and volleyball players required to squat down to be fair to shorter people. The whole point of elite sports of any kind is that they’re taking…

In his Massey Lecture, author Lawrence Hill talked about his teenage dream to compete in the 5000 metres at the Olympics. He trained hard, but wasn’t seeing the results his coach expected from training.His coach suggested some medical tests, which determined that Hill’s blood was less efficient at carrying oxygen than…

The Olympics selects for athletic outliers, for freaks! That’s the entire fucking point of the Olympics — we send our athletes, collected from the far tail-end of the curve, to compete against other countries freaks. That we’ve collectively decided that this kind of freakishness is actually something heroic to aspire…

Yeah, that totally makes it okay.

I have PCOS and, thus, higher androgen levels than the average woman.

It seems like she’s done that a lot lately. I expect better from her.

It's disappointing. I enjoy Midler but she's in the wrong on this.

Yep. There are a hundred things she could have rightfully gone after Caitlyn for. Being trans shouldn’t ever be one of them. I’m quite disappointed.

I'm not trans but I'm horrified by Bettes tweet and the people defending it. There is nothing cute or funny about misgendering people. I'm shocked at the amount of people defending Ms. Midler in the comments here.

I wonder how many of the folks here in the comments saying what she said was ok are trans? Let’s reiterate for those who may be slow on the uptake: even if you disagree with someone, that doesn’t give you the right to undermine their identity with impunity. Don’t misgender trans folks.

Can’t speak for Jujy but I certainly do. Bill is charming, intelligent, a great conversationalist, funny and appreciative of humor in others, loyal though not faithful (they are different things), well informed, fascinated by other people, and not least, always looks nicely groomed and as if he probably smells good.…

You know you’ve fucked up when Courtney fucking Love tells you to grow up.

My daughter is obsessed with Criminal Minds, and is in love with Shemar. She was devastated when he left the show. The perfect karma would be for the producers to bring his character back to take on the Gibson character’s role as team leader. My daughter endorses this 100%.

It’s beyond brilliant. It’s like a 99-yard TD pass. It may be equalled, but it can never be exceeded.

(sorry I know we’re not yassing anymore. But WHOOP)

He was able to handle Imelda freaking Marcos and Trump was too much for him. Ha!

Also, worrying about your last tweet is a brilliant metaphor for our desperate attempts to control the minutiae of our lives knowing full well that one day we will die no matter what we do with that foreknowledge.. right?

140 characters is too small a template to express a lasting sentiment or manifesto, so I’d probably just speak from the heart, you know? Lik

She also supposedly delivered the baby with one push, so maybe airplanes are conducive to the act of birthing.