Evan Urquhart

To stigmatize female athletes who might be minded to stand up for their right to single-sex sports. You have a living to make, I understand, but when you disavow this article, in a year or three, I bet you'll blame the editor.

Seriously, mate, just read the rest of the thread?

I don't know what to tell you lol

Not to be rude about your work, but if you had, in the end, after all that struggling, found a genuine way to justify the comparison, wouldn't you have put it in the article?

That does seem a bit rude, thank you for acknowledging it. I think it's laid out quite clearly, and that I very specifically say it's an analogy that is useful but not perfect and shouldn't be mistaken for saying they're one and the same.

Maybe your editor stepped in to remove that bit? The word "analogy" isn't in the article. Your argument seems to be simply that all male athletes should be able to compete against female athletes if they want, and women who think that's unfair are eugenicists. It's deeply sexist.

That's one spot where it's made clear, but it's threaded throughout the article. Eugenics is a useful framework for describing what these bills aim to do. I never say or imply it's precisely the same thing. If you don't like the analogy, that's fine. I think it's a useful one.