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Comment Re:Fluidity (Score 2) 692

Male puberty supplies many advantages besides testosterone. Those advantages include height, wingspan, lung capacity, heart capacity, raw strength, bone density, etc. Stopping or limiting testosterone doesn't reduce any of these permanent changes.

The only fair way to conduct sports is to separate men from women. (And yes, I'm using the historical definitions of those words. You know, the definitions based on sex.)

Comment Re:Fluidity (Score 1) 692

Trans and "non-binary" are not the same thing.

Non-binary is some sex designation that isn't quite male and isn't quite female. Problem is that such a sex doesn't exist. There's no sex spectrum. People are all either male or female. There's nothing in-between.

Anyone calling themselves non-binary is labeling themselves as something which doesn't exist. It's an imaginary sex category.

And yes, this is different from the trans folks who at least have the common sense to label themselves as a sex which actually exists, even if changing sex isn't physically possible.

Comment Re:This has nothing to do with that. (Score 3, Interesting) 692

This has nothing to do with anything you're talking about and everything to do with modern gender non discrimination laws which have been on the books for around a half century.

No. We’ve had sex non-discrimination laws on the books for half a century. All this focus on gender is new as of the past 10 years or so. As everyone these days like to say, gender is separate from sex. We have no federal laws passed which protect gender or gender identity.

Comment Re:Fluidity (Score 4, Insightful) 692

But still, it has nothing to do with trans people. These guys are clearly not trans, they self identify as the same gender they were assigned at birth, and did not pretend to be trans to get in. It's just a bunch of arseholes abusing a system that can't reasonably check them out before hand. Even if all non-binary and trans people were banned, it would do nothing to stop people lying on the application form. What are you going to do when they turn up, set up a genital inspection point at the entrance? Turn away any woman who doesn't look feminine enough?

Trans women in women's sports is a different issue, and one which you can't resolve with a ban. It's been tried, by the IOC, for over a century. Turns out it's basically impossible to come up with a reliable and measurable definition of what a "natural" woman is without excluding a lot of cisgender women.

Side note: no one has a “gender they were assigned at birth.” People have a sex. It’s either male or female. It’s determined by your chromosomes. It’s set at conception when the sperm meets the egg. The only thing that the doctor does at birth is record your sex. Even so, most parents can get an ultrasound and determine the sex of their kid months before birth. This whole “assigned at birth” stuff is nonsense. It makes it sound like the doctor is giving you some arbitrary label and declaring “that’s your sex!” That’s not what happens. Stop using that bullshit language.

You don’t need a genital inspection point for anything to determine sex. You can go off the sex recorded on your birth certificate or license. Of course, that’s presuming your state hasn’t been taken over by a bunch of trans ideologues who will let people arbitrarily change the sex on their birth certificate or license. If that’s the case, then I say yes, set up the genital inspection station. Fuck them for making stupid changes to the law. Make it completely clear the stupidity of these sorts of legal changes.

As for women in sport, it’s easy to come up with a definition of woman that can be used in sport. A woman is an adult human female. A female is a person with the body type that produces eggs. In general terms, it’s the adults with vaginas - not the ones with penises.

Comment Re: A naive question (Score 1, Insightful) 364

The women's events aren't there to punish women. They're there to make it competitive for them, so men don't take all the top spots.

The top female players don't even come close in skill to the top male players. We can pretend the genders are literally equal until we're blue in the face, but that won't change biology or science.

Don't believe me? There are plenty of co-ed competitions. Look at who typically wins them. It's virtually never women.

Comment They're working with OSM! (Score 0) 59

From the FAQ @ https://overturemaps.org/resou... Overture is a data-centric map project, not a community of individual map editors. Therefore, Overture is intended to be complementary to OSM. We combine OSM with other sources to produce new open map data sets. Overture data will be available for use by the OpenStreetMap community under compatible open data licenses. Overture members are encouraged to contribute to OSM directly.

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