“He alluded to the fact that something happened, and Coach D had a sense that it involved some sort of sexual allegation, and he immediately said ‘Don’t say anything more.’”

“...no other public school can stand up to Berkeley’s combination of elite academics and big-time sporting success.”

Gee...wouldn’t having a penis or having a vagina be considered a dividing line? Asking for a friend...

“There’s no neat line biologically.” Seriously?

I hadn’t seen it, and I busted out laughing. Boss wasn’t happy, but I showed it to him and now he is yuckin it up too. Thanks!

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 think your second paragraph is really the key. People have this general idea that men are better at sports, but they don’t understand how much better. Other examples include the USWNT losing to a U15 regional prep boys team and the Williams sisters getting smashed by the 160+ rated mens player.

That caught my eye too. If it’s not about competition, why enter state competitions? And if you read the article, it was pretty clearly about winning and losing to the girl who came in second.

One thing that is pretty straightforward is that male athletes destroy female athletes in almost every competitive category. The USWNT regularly loses scrimmages against boys U17 teams, and most woman’s track and field records are comparable with boys middle school records.

Yes. Yes it is.

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.”

That’s a shit take

There is precedent for this

the good part is no one really cares about women’s sports that much. So this will never become a large issue.

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.

This is tricky. I support trans rights, but I also support the right of cis girls to compete in sports against a level playing field. I don’t know the perfect answer, but I don’t think that allowing a 15-year-old girl to compete with what is still, essentially, a boy’s body, is it.

We found love in a ropeless place.

I’m just going to leave these Tim Beckman pieces here. This fuckin’ shitkicker.

I agree. The comparison isn’t perfect. I just eye roll at the narrative in this piece.