Never forget

I can’t believe they let him talk to successful people.

I do not disagree to an extent. Gains do not disappear just because you are off testosterone.

I love watching Allyson Felix run. I would not love watching her get her ass kicked by trans Tyson Gay.

As you point out, there are lots of differences other than testosterone between males and females. And it appears you know more about it than I do because I don’t know what some of those factors you mention are. Maybe it’s not known whether somatomedin or blood epinephrine actually benefit athletic performance. But…

Years of “stranger danger” have worked too well - people with kids don’t want anything from their neighbors except to stay the hell away from their kids.

Thanks. Unfortunately I rarely comment on Deadspin, so I am still trapped in the greys here.

I wish this comment were far higher up and available for all to see.

I am a trans woman and an amateur weightlifter (who competes in sanctioned USA Weightlifting events). I had to go through a medical review process in order to be eligible to compete in USAW meets. Generally, I am fine with something like this that so long there are clear and reasonable standards for trans women’s…

Fake story. I don’t believe that she was more seriously injured than many women have been injured in MMA. Fallon Fox isn’t even that highly ranked. She fully transitioned years ago.

The problem is that there are actually a lot of people that do not believe male athletes destroy female athletes. They have no idea how huge the gap actually is. There are people I have had conversations with that do not believe that if we removed the gender categories in the Olympics, 99% of medals would be won by…

I don’t believe there are limits in men’s sports; testing is instead designed to look for elevated levels that are either markers of doping or previous steroid use.

For the reasons you just stated, during their dominant late ‘90's & early 00's national championship runs, the UNC women’s soccer team regularly scrimmaged the area high school boys teams. This gave them a tremendous advantage when they played against other wonen’s teams.

It could’ve been written more clearly, but the analogy is fine. You’ve misunderstood it. She’s saying the situation with Chand is like a hypotheitcal world in which wrestling still formally used weight classes but disregarded the requirement of actually making weight to compete in those classes.

I think I said this in the article last year, but hopefully it’s worth repeating. What we call “men’s” and “women’s” divisions are essentially testosterone-level divisions. The majority of men fall above some line (probably the line you suggest), the majority of women below that line, and if we want both populations…

This seems unfair, for obvious reasons, that I can’t functionally explain.

“And I say England’s greatest Prime Minister was Lord Palmerston.”

Maybe Bill will reach out and offer to take him fishing.

Sad thing is id way more prefer my wife to blow me, but the odds of that happening are about the same as scarjo offering the same service. The other sad thing is if scarjo did offer id say no.