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As recent studies have shown, these advantages generally don’t go away simply because an athlete has changed their pronouns and hormone chemistry. At the highest levels, the difference between male and female world records typically hovers around 10 percent.
In our hyper-connected times, personal resilience is a muscle worth exercising.
Tyson embodies the moral ambiguity of boxing’s rich tapestry: brutal and beautiful; entertaining and repellent; dishonorable and inspiring.
World Rugby had to come to terms with reality: Irrespective of hormonal intervention, male athletes are, on average, 40 percent heavier, 15 percent faster, 30 percent more powerful, and 25–50 percent stronger than their female counterparts.
Most healthcare experts basically agree that there is still too much uncertainty about COVID-19 to play football safely this fall.
The Matildas’ landmark deal may actually prove counterproductive for the pay gap movement.
The term “cancel culture” has become hotly contested of late. Critics say it is indiscriminately used to describe different degrees of mass opprobrium produced by transgressions that range from the trivial to the criminal. Now, while mob justice is never a particularly good idea, it is certainly true that some
Corporations are increasingly prone to formulating explicit moral positions on issues of social importance and punishing those who fail to condone such positions to the extent that they are able to do so.
When we are told that 46, XY males with DSD who identify as female are simply “women with hyperandrogenism,” or “women with high T,” we aren’t fooled.
The subject of Bob Dylan’s famous 1976 protest song was probably guilty.
What are the physiological and anatomical differences between men and women that affect performance?
The movement for trans inclusion now begins in youth sports, where many leagues have no restrictions beyond self-identification.
Perhaps there is a better remedy: alternate dispute resolution. Have the foursome meet face-to-face with Smith-Pelly (with his consent) in the presence of others. Let the taunters explain what they meant.
But is it “oppression”? There has been a tendency in recent years to water down definitions of certain words and then to misapply them.