Yes. But some of us have been consistent in saying that the right path to bettering the lives of our Trans brothers & sisters is to do *Intersex*-acceptance first. If there is a good lord, he/she made these edge cases. They teach us both compassion & the full meaning of gender.https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1124616834446123008 …
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Replying to @EricRWeinstein
We also need to have compassion for women who have trained their whole lives to compete in elite sport and who do not have the performance advantage of having testosterone at male levels.
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Replying to @clairlemon
Yes! And compassion for ordinary women who lack elite athletic phenotypes which correlate w/ athletic dominance. I mean, let’s be honest: sports have *never* been remotely fair to most of us. Athletic scholarships always discriminate on the basis of phenotype. So let’s go slow?
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Replying to @EricRWeinstein
Non sequitur. There is no human right to compete in elite sports. It's like saying that it's "unfair" that a heavyweight boxer can't compete and win in the featherweight division. Sports orgs categorise by sex because with the female category, women would never win.
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Replying to @clairlemon
Oh I quite agree on rights...but it is so curious that you think it a non sequitor! It happens that combat sports have weight divisions. Yet there are no “height divisions” in basketball. No seeming need for a gendered division in Chess, yet there is often a gendered divisioning.
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>No seeming need for a gendered division in Chess


Wow, you mean there might be *mental* differences between men and women too?!? That's an outrage! I refuse to believe it!
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