WESTJET? WHAT IS THIS LIFE OF LUXURY HE LEADS? WHY DIDN’T HE SAIL INTO HALIFAX ON A DINGHY AND TAKE GREYHOUND? WHY DOES HE HAVE A BACKPACK INSTEAD OF A GARBAGE BAG SLUNG ON HIS SHOULDER? DOES HE NOT WANT TO BE LIKE THE MASSES?

So for instance, everyone who can run a certain distance in a certain time can qualify for one team, and those who can’t meet that (or maybe exceed that?) qualify for the next team. Each team might skew more in a particular direction in terms of gender, but it would still be boys and girls and non-binary…

Not a conservative: I’m a bisexual man currently in a relationship with another man. There’s a cultural discussion to be had about whether or not trans women should be considered women at a social level, but they are biologically male. There’s the same discussion to be had about trans men, but trans men are…

Poetic justice to whom?  Cis-women?  Are you out to punish us?

girls wanting to compete against other girls are not traitors of anything

To everyone saying that we shouldn’t regulate this with laws, we did! Title 9. And it opened up massive opportunities for girls and women, because scholarships and titles were now available to high schoolers. For us older women, we saw it unfold! The republicans are douchebags and are not on our side. But many of us…

These legislators aren’t the proper people to tackle this nuanced issue. But Jezebel writer’s have shown multiple times now that they aren’t able to deal with in logical and scaled way either.

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…

People complain about the right denying science, but it seems to me the left is every bit as willing to ignore the science if the science isn’t politically correct.

If you think that it’s fair that a male-bodied person should be competing against females then you don’t even science.

So having some experience with this, after years of hormone therapy and androgen suppression, and this is only more pronounced if you have had SRS, the physical advantages you may have once had are negligible to say the least. Slower, way less muscle, almost zero upper body strength...not as strong as a teenage boy…

“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…

The motivation for cons on this one is clearly bigotry (plus hypocrisy), yes. But many women (who by no stretch of the imagination are republicans) raise the same concerns. I don’t know if there’s a name for the fallacy that goes like “some people are motivated to raise concern X for reason Y, and reason Y is a bad…

Trans women are not real women. They are dudes who got their dicks cut off. Republican lawmakers are getting one thing right at least.

Proud of my home state of Missouri for doing this!  

I feel like one of the big problems with politics at the moment is a tendency (on all sides) to try and reduce conplex issues to a sound bite that will appeal to your ‘side’. It really cuts down opportunities for communication and compromise.

As recently as the 00's the argument was sex /= gender.

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 youth need compassion, not bills attempting to violently erase them as human beings.”