I have to say, you are not really painting an accurate picture of Norwalk and Danbury! 

I cannot even begin to parse this. She’s literally wearing fetish wear between the garters and the latex, and I am commenting on the styling. I am not hating on it. You can interpret the images (which include much more than the styling) to convey whatever you want. Still doesn’t mean it’s not fetish wear.

Yes, and in a perfect world everyone would get along. There would be no war or racism or sexism. We could all dance and frolic and sing kumbaya together. Guess what? This ain’t a perfect world.

That’s all well and good but she’s doing this to herself knowing full well the breadth of responses she will receive. And she isn’t doing this as part of some selfless endeavor, she’s selling her sexuality to the world in order to expand her celebrity. At the very same time she is chastising a fanbase for finding her…

Er, I’m saying I was in the situation that the people ostensibly competing at a disadvantage against trans women claim to be in. I was placed not only at a competitive disadvantage, but in actual physical danger, because the rules of the sport had no way to account for my peculair condition.

Likewise, your anecdotes about puberty and such are just that: anecdotes. They do not rely on data. You have to work on that.

That’s just not correct. The testosterone suppression doesn’t even the playing field: https://www.wired.com/story/the-glorious-victories-of-trans-athletes-are-shaking-up-sports/ . It’s much more complicated and it disadvantages female-born athletes, who are already disadvantaged by virtue of being female in relation…

Thanks for putting down what I’ve been trying to explain. I’ve been informed several times through actions that if I’m not lock stock in-step with the trans side in all conversations that I’m just as bad as the other side, and this is one of the issues that have rankled me. I remember sports in highschool. I remember…

IMHO, you have it backwards. Girls and women’s sports are the protected category. Research needs to be done to back trans girls inclusion, not the other way around.

And it is frustrating to have people act as though it is just so impossible for trans girls to compete in the boys category and ignore the multiple…

It is actually happening. CT is the infamous example, but IIRC, 17 states allow high school athletes to compete on the basis of gender identity alone with no medical requirements.

Puberty blockers logically will lead to no advantage, but based on what I’ve read, there is no solid research backing the claim that HRT…

As a woman who was recruited to college for a sport I excelled at in high school (and prior), it would seem that trans women’s biological advantages (to the extent that they exist) have to be addressed in high school. College/pro/Olympic sports exist in a pipeline/funnel that starts at high school—different “levels”…

If I, who am biologically and self affirmatively female, take hormones to improve my performance, I would be banned for cheating even if I kept the range inside the very top of what considered within range for women.

I said this in a previous post: Harper’s article is neither scientific nor medical. That’s why she published it in a cultural journal rather than a scientific or medical one. She didn’t take pre- and post-measurements of individuals under controlled conditions. She took one historical race time of 8 transitioned…

That review does not look at scientific studies of performance. It reviews eight research articles consisting face to face interviews with a tiny number of trans athletes about their perceptions. For example of the studies they analyze was: “To explore two transgender male individuals’ experiences of sport in an…

The whole public push for trans inclusion in sport is very, very, very new. Like literally just in the last few years. As of yet, very few sports let trans women compete vs. girls. I am saying that if it becomes mainstream, yes, trans women competing in girls’ and women’s sports will be the death of those sports. Why…

“Being biologically male is not what grants men an edge in sport. It’s testosterone.” This is a largely untested theory without much scientific support. What limited science has been published indicates the opposite: Men have inherent biological advantages over women.

Testosterone is a big part of it, but biologically born men also have larger hearts, greater lung capacity, stronger bones, and more upper body strength than biologically born women. It’s more complicated than just testosterone suppression and I’m not sure what the answer is (at least for ensuring equity in professiona…

“Of course, all this is solely in respect to pro athletic contests. Amateurs and youth athletics are about participation, not prowess.”

What would be a fair proposal? It is not fair to a women’s basketball team thatgoes up against another team with a biological male.

Trans women are destroying every sports record set by women around the world. It’s a problem.

That being said, I’d be all for us setting up leagues for trans students to play, but there may not be enough population for them in some areas? I’m not sure what a good solution would be.