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BBC segment on transwomen in female sports
This 9-minute BBC show on testosterone, sport, and transwomen athletes (below), won’t tell you much more than the posts I’ve put up on this
Tag : Sex And Gender Issues
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USA Swimming announces new policy for transgender swimmers
The success of transgender female swimmer Lia Thomas, who competes for the University of Pennsylvania, has caused a lot of polarization. On one hand
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Teachers push California student to undergo sexual transitioning
I think all people of good will (except the ACLU) are on the same page with respect to transgender rights. That is, everyone, regardless of gender
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Do seahorses validate “queerness”? The naturalistic fallacy committed by the Sussex Wildlife Trust
Every day I get six or seven links from readers about the infestation of society by performative brands of DEI (i.e., “wokeness”). The links are
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Michael Phelps in line for accusations of transphobia after touting a “clean field” in women’s sports
Do I really need to apologize because this piece, which was sent me as a link to yahoo! news, ultimately turned out to be taken from the conservative
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Michael Phelps in line for accusations of transphobia after touting a “clean field” in women’s sports
Do I really need to apologize because this piece, which was sent me as a link to yahoo! news, ultimately turned out to be taken from the conservative
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The perils of plural pronouns: “They sneezes”
Reader j.j. sent me this link to a post at Language Log, which seems to be a place where language mavens hash out arcane topics. I’ll put the
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Let a million genders blossom
Yes, it’s a slow news day, so let’s catch up with some recent draft posts that never got posted. As we all know, gender is a “spectrum,” with
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Richard Dawkins in Areo on race and sex
The title of Richard Dawkins’s new article in Areo (below) is one I pretty much agree with, and in his analysis he covers a lot of ground. His
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Does suppression of testosterone reduce the athletic advantage of transwomen over biological women?
I want to begin by saying that the article we’ll discuss appeared in Quillette, and some have started dismissing everything published on that site
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Good news for free speech in the UK: Court of Appeals rules that legal investigation of “hate incidents” cannot be used to chill speech
I hadn’t realized that if, in the UK, if you express lawful speech, you can still be put in police records for creating a “hate incident”,
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Head of Swedish Academy announces that Nobel Prizes will be awarded solely for merit, without gender or ethnicity quotas
I can’t say I disagree with this announcement, by Goran Hansson, that the Nobel Prizes will continue to be awarded for merit alone and not for
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Abigail Shrier speaks truth to Princeton
I’d forgotten that Abigail Shrier had a Substack column called “The Truth Fairy“, and so I would have missed this wonderful talk (in
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Coleman and Navratilova on transwomen in sports: The International Olympic Committee has failed its mission
We all know Martina Navratilova, one of the greatest woman tennis players of history. Although she isn’t a “transphobe”, she’s opposed to