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Re:N.C.A.A. Excludes Transgender Athletes from Women's Sports on Saturday February 08, 2025 @08:25AM (#42982804)
> “biological females” (technically speaking, we all start there, BTW)

This isn't true. Sexual differentiation begins around the sixth week of embryonic development. Prior to that, the gonads are undifferentiated.

> there's no reason to believe the fastest human would necessarily remain biologically male, if the dietary and training regimes were entirely equal

But we already have evidence that this is the case, in world records for elite athletes, for whom training is optimized: the male times are significantly faster than the female times.

> gendered sporting boundaries (which primarily exist to protect male economic and social domains from female competition, anyway)

The rationale for women's sport is that it is fair to exclude male physical advantage from competition. The primary reason for existence of the female category is fairness. In contact sports, there is also safety to consider.

If competitions were mixed-sex, they would be dominated by male athletes in almost every sport. Again there is plenty of real-world evidence for this.

Re:N.C.A.A. Excludes Transgender Athletes from Women's Sports on Thursday February 06, 2025 @07:18PM (#42967884)
> All fetuses are female for the first 6 or 7 weeks, regardless of their chromosomes. Trump just accidentally banned men.

This is false. We all begin in an undifferentiated state before our genes differentiate us down a female or male pathway.

Female development is not equivalent to the undifferentiated stage we all start with as fetuses.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK279001/

Re:Online Censorship's Institutional Power on Friday May 17, 2024 @10:36AM (#40390415)
This is more like a seagull that wants everyone to call it a pelican on the dubious basis that it claims to have a 'pelican identity', despite not actually being a pelican.

There's nothing wrong with rejecting that demand and continuing to refer to it as a seagull, is there?

Re:Online Censorship's Institutional Power on Friday May 17, 2024 @10:34AM (#40390392)
It's more honest to describe someone as they actually are, rather than the illusion they would prefer.