On the Issue of Female Athletics, the IOC Has Shirked Its Duty to Lead
It’s wrong to make everyone wait for proof of the obvious when it comes to genetic males outperforming genetic females.
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It’s wrong to make everyone wait for proof of the obvious when it comes to genetic males outperforming genetic females.
While many of us are lazy and gullible in our ideological commitments, pledging allegiance to faddish notions so that we may be seen as enlightened, such vanities tend to fall away once we see evidence that proves we’ve been duped.
When Sons Become Daughters | Angus Fox * Part 1 * Part 2 * Part 3 * Part 4 * Part 5 * Part 6 “Parents have been complaining about their kids’ lifestyle choices and political convictions since the dawn of time, of course. But rarely have such choices involved committing oneself to the possibility of sterility
In the debate about transitioning children who experience gender dysphoria, Ms. Bell’s case represents an important turning point.
The mirror doesn’t lie.
The entire argument was about whether one particular trans ally had become too famous at the expense of more worthy and authentic competitors.
Until recently, those seeking transition generally were subject to extensive assessment by mental health practitioners.
It appears that common sense is forgotten once the words “gender identity” are invoked.
But that’s the thing about freedom of speech: you tend not to notice it being curtailed until it’s your speech that’s being restricted.
Caroline’s ordeal began six months ago when she appeared on a TV show called Good Morning Britain
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Gender dysphoria was viewed as a rare and distressing condition that could be alleviated by accommodating sufferers as legal exceptions to the rules of biology.
While the culture-war skirmish over transgenderism typically is treated as a debate about culture or sociology, it is also a debate about the primacy of science.
It wasn’t that these women cross-dressed to be men. It’s that they cross-dressed not to be women.