I cannot understand how testosterone suppression would even make for a non-perfect “fair” condition? This isn’t scientifically sound; and overlooks the many testosterone-independent biological differences between males and females (i.e. Growth hormone, somatomedin, blood epinephrine, ect.).

Sorry but I have to guess-ask: roller derby? I was a member of the community for a spell and I loved the sport and “inclusiveness” but that also came with no regulations on trans women (at least when I was with it). Especially in a contact sport, it has never sat well with me.

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…

if you just love to run...the good news is that you can do that without a race at all...to say it isn’t about winning and losing is totally disingenuous.

To give another example: I was a middling male cross country runner at a small school. My greatest individual accomplishment was missing out on the medals at our conference meet by a single spot. I just looked up last year’s state championship times, and my personal best would have won the large-school girls’ division…

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

Edgy take, brah

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Its scary to think that a South Park spoof from 2000 is now becoming a reality.

Think of steam steam provides Moisture, people use steaming methods for skin issues all the time, steam also cleans and lifts things people have been steaming for centuries, it was through steam that once made trains move, some cleaning businesses use steam all the time because it lifts residue...

Agreed completely. Benny is so far ahead of the pack here.

The Phanatic is so much more than the look! He’s the full package!

Benny the Bull is #1.

A thing I learned while compiling this: The San Diego Chicken is not and has never been the Padres’ mascot.

“a program that has no business being as good as it is”

omg omg omg omg

Paul Hollywood, that steely-eyed Lothario, will be staying on at the BBC and carrying on with it, though without the shining presence of Mary Berry, Mel or Sue, the show will be a sad and weird husk of its former self.

When they help each other in the bakes, I often well up in tears.

I had the same thought. There were many reasons why a pelvic exam was absolutely appropriate in that situation. Seems like the doctor was in a can’t-win situation: If he didn’t do a complete exam, he could be charged with discriminatory malpractice, if he did do it he could be charge with...some kind of sexual…

Emergency Department Nurse here.

Doing a pelvic exam on a female patient(born with or added) with a Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) that was so advanced that it cause a synoptic episode or nearly so is common/recommended because in the ER we are all about ruling out life threatening ailments. A GYN exam would revile a…