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    ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Feb 2019

    the solution to the trans athlete thing is simple: Ditch male / female teams, and create "low testosterone" and "unlimited" teams. Pitch it as a matter of student safety. If you have less than x testosterone, you can join the low T team. Everyone else joins the unlimited team.

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      2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Feb 2019

        2/ The default is that everyone ends up in the unlimited / untested team. ...but if you want to take a test and show that you have low T, and want to compete in a safer / more restricted environment, you can. Than 6'2", 220 lb Sheila can compete with a bunch of other 6'2" folk

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      3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Feb 2019

        3/ and no one has to call her "him" or check her genitals, or run afoul of the SJWs. Were I in a position of authority in high school sports league, I'd jump on this right now, with lots of cites re safety. It's a tactical retreat, but a defensible one.

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      4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Feb 2019

        ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Emily Elephant

        4/ OK, then testosterone test at age 13 for all future eligibility. My scheme fits right into the existing schemes for anti-doping regulation, which reaches back months or years.https://twitter.com/ee_elephant/status/1101124677232222208 …

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        Emily Elephant @ee_elephant
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        It's not quite that simple. Transwomen already have to take T-inhibitors for a year. None of which affects their already built muscle mass, lung capacity etc. This is deemed irrelevant.
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      5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Feb 2019

        5/ Red tribe folks will dislike my scheme because it "concedes too much". /shrug The cultural currents are what they are, and you don't win things by fighting them head on, much of the time.

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      6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Feb 2019

        6/ To go full on extropian, maybe we need 3 or more leagues. low T, male T, and enhanced Folks like WWF and other sports where doping is out of control (heyo, Lance Armstrong!). Rectification of names: acknowledge it, name it, move forward.

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      7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Feb 2019

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        7/ The great thing about twitter is that you get to meet and interact with fellow intellectuals. https://twitter.com/FiddleSquared/status/1101125636557541376 …

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      8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Feb 2019

        ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted UedamaProducts

        8/ no, your proposal EXACTLY undoes the core point that I'm making: if the SJWs are going to make it illegal to think in terms of "men" and "women", then follow that to the conclusion, to achieve what you want while removing their objection.https://twitter.com/UedamaProducts/status/1101135082490945546 …

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        UedamaProducts @UedamaProducts
        Replying to @MorlockP
        This is the proper answer, though I'd list them as "no drug use men, no drug use women, anything goes".
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      9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Feb 2019

        9/ And your team's rebuttal is "well, yeah, but we SHOULD do X, if only we had the power to...and we should have the power!" yeah, well, if wishes were fishes we're only engaged in this thread because we don't have the power.

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      10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Feb 2019

        ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Eddie, Son of Richard

        10/ also relevant:https://twitter.com/random_eddie/status/1101140101525057536 …

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        Eddie, Son of Richard @random_eddie
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        This is approximately already the case. Certain sports / events have maximum T requirements for the women's events. The standards were applied to naturally intersex athletes even before transgenderism became fashionable.
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      11. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Feb 2019

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        11/ If you can measure it, then add the measure to the standard. https://twitter.com/shutter_j/status/1101141112356392960 …

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      12. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Feb 2019

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        12/ I already explained this: BECAUSE YOU DO NOT HAVE THE POLITICAL POWER TO HAVE THAT. If folks want to daydream about "what if the US was 95% red, what laws would we pass?" go ahead. I'm interested in "given it's 50% blue and the Cathedral won..." https://twitter.com/MsMakita/status/1101143939162157058 …

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      13. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Feb 2019

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        13/ 1) so any girl who has any testosterone at all is male? OK, all girls are male. 2) HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO EXPLAIN THAT THIS THREAD IS THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE GIVEN THE ACTUAL POLITICAL REALITIES ON THE GROUND? (answer: n+1, for any n) https://twitter.com/morganwarstler/status/1101146165205237760 …

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      14. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Feb 2019

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        14/ ok, so if dad throws a football to Suzie, then she competes on the boy's team? Or if Suzie is a tomboy and refuses to wear skirts, again, boys team? https://twitter.com/morganwarstler/status/1101148268648644609 …

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      15. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Feb 2019

        ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted UedamaProducts

        15/ > You mis-state the "political reality". Do I ?https://twitter.com/UedamaProducts/status/1101149592534638592 …

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        UedamaProducts @UedamaProducts
        Replying to @MorlockP
        I now see your point, and apologize for missing it earlier. That said, your proposal isn't any better, for the same reason you castigate mine. You mis-state the "political reality". You can't extrapolate from the wrong core principle.
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      16. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Feb 2019

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        16/ I don't see this as an anti-trans proposal! I see it as fair to cismen, ciswomen, and trans. Gender classes in sports exist (like weight classes) for a reason: to create categories that foster competition (everyone has a CHANCE to win, w hard work) https://twitter.com/KingMythro/status/1101153060037058565 …

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      17. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Feb 2019

        17/ I'm extropian, so I support (and expect) that over the coming centuries we'll see people bioengineered with extra muscles, extra lung capacity, etc. We'd certainly want categories for folks with genes XYZ for lung capacity vs QRS lung capacity, no?

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      18. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Feb 2019

        18/ My goals in this thread are three-fold: * Red tribe: preserve fairness for cisgirls * Blue tribe: preserve openness and let everyone in society engage in societal rituals * Gray tribe: accept human augmentation / bio-hacking / extropianism as given /shrug

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      19. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Feb 2019

        ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Mr. Crow

        19/ No, this is bad, because there are androgen insensitive XYs who are women, there are chimeras, there are intersex people, etc. Odd how socialcons attack the biological reductionism of the left c. 1960, then embrace it c. 2020.https://twitter.com/Crowesq/status/1101168833488961538 …

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        Mr. Crow @Crowesq
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        Three categories: XX, XY, and "unlimited".
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      20. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Feb 2019

        20/ And worse than merely embracing crass materialism, it goes out of the way to miss the core issue that we're actually trying to solve: people w different musculature / testosterone levels competing. Your XX category allows female-to-males who are taking T to compete w girls

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      21. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Feb 2019

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        21/ except they don't currently test high school kids https://twitter.com/fche/status/1101173202200547333 …

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      22. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Feb 2019

        ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Lawyer Dog

        22/ Always trust Morlock Brand™ arguments.https://twitter.com/TheClarksTale/status/1101173532317212672 …

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        Lawyer Dog @TheClarksTale
        Replying to @MorlockP
        A friend in college was a male XXY who had fathered a child. (Because he appeared normally male he wouldn't usually have been tested, but his dad was nave at a time when all Navy-hospital newborns got tested.)
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      23. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Feb 2019

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        23/ Clearly the solution is for Red Team to use its 80 senate seats and control of both the media and universities to implement the policies it wants, instead of compromising. https://twitter.com/HanginDong/status/1101175425336860673 …

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      24. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Feb 2019

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        24/ https://twitter.com/HanginDong/status/1101176633367646208 …

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      25. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Feb 2019

        ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Not Bill Clinton (I Feel/Your Pain)

        25/https://twitter.com/notPotus42/status/1101177654986854405 …

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        Not Bill Clinton (I Feel/Your Pain) @notPotus42
        As I’ve long said: the debates over trans people are just a warmup for the debates we’ll have over human augmentation and post-humanism. This is a great chance to develop policies around all self-modification. https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1101154701217796096 …
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