I linked it elsewhere, but kinja sucks for following topics over time.
I linked it elsewhere, but kinja sucks for following topics over time.
I wish I could give this more stars.
They aren’t forcing her to alter her biology. They’re saying that if she wants to race against people with lower testosterone she has to lower them. No one would complain if she raced against men.
It’s easy to view these as racially motivated. But that’s because the mutations we’re talking about:
I’m willing to wage large sums of money that Joanna Harper is way, way more informed than any commentator on this article, or even the Jezebel author.
Katie is amazing, and way better than most men. But she would not win against truly elite male competition:
From the paper I linked above:
The fundamental difference is that we segregate our sports by sex to allow equal competition. Just like we segregate boxing and wrestling by weight. Anyone is allow to move up to a higher class freely, but you can’t choose to compete at a lower one unless you can meet the standard.
Did you read the article I linked? That’s not at all what she says. I already quoted it here if you can’t be bothered.
The article was written months before the Olympics. That’s why it’s “probably”.
You should look up the credentials of the person I was quoting.
I linked my source. But I should know better than to expect people to actually read. That’s a quote from Joanna Harper. From the link:
The levels they banned are way above PCOS:
I’m not sure how you could possibly think that, unless you’re willfully ignoring things. Two mins of googling produces this:
The real comparison is to boxing or wrestling where competitors are divided into weight classes in order to allow fair competition.
I think that is fakespot.com
I think that is fakespot.com
I don’t know what is about the text/background in that first pic, but I can’t stop seeing it as “assbender”.
The show will premiere in the U.S. on Ovation on October 1, 2016
Or not: