#ok. sorry. vyvanse and coffee and annoying op-ed all hit me at the same time. god bless

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international sports federations will look at the fact that 99% of elite male athletes are better than 99% of elite female athletes and be like oh is this an excuse to ignore the 1%? babygirl do you KNOW how many elite athletes there are in the world. yeah. yeah, hundred of thousands of them. yeah, that means that 1% is thousands of people. unfortunately you do have to reckon with the folks in the middle of your very impressive bimodal distribution. yeah i know. i know, the infinite diversity of human ability within those two categories is pretty inconvenient-- yeah.

it’s definitely a tough question to resolve, reconciling the reality of sex-based advantage with the fact that there are always going to be people with a range of natural advantages within and between those normal distributions-- for sure, it’s complicated, keeping things fair for the 99% while also finding a way to make them just and fair for the people in between. it’s hard! obviously we can’t just full-out abolish sex categories or blur them beyond coherence in most sports-- yeah, I know, the NHL and MLB are already gender neutral, and we’ve seen how that’s worked out for women trying to go pro-- absolutely-- yeah-- okay--

so are you going to come at this in a way that preserves the dignity and right to play of trans and intersex athletes & others who don’t fit your binary? oh, no? oh, you’re just going-- you’re just going to pretend that that they don’t exist. alright. wait, you’re NOT going to do that? so they do-- they do exist? oh, okay, you’re just going to say they aren’t allowed in sports. because you aren’t-- you aren’t creative enough to come up with a way of making things fair for everyone. okay. cool. this seems like a normal and really smart way of addressing this issue. i’m so glad you’re in charge. fucking wingnut dipshits.

#why can't anyone have a brain cell. go outside. this is why i quit sports and joined the circus #grow UP. i KNOW we are capable AS A SOCIETY of addressing this one. #FOOTNOTE: #also to be clear i am talking specifically about elite & pro sports here #when i describe the statistical sex difference being as large as it is #the variance between individuals especially when they are not necessarily training at the same level/in the same way #will usually be larger at lower levels. which is why we see more girls succeeding in gender-neutral rec leagues #but fewer in select leagues and almost none by the time we get up to juniors #& zero in gender-neutral elite/pro #END FOOTNOTE. anyways. yeah. #like. sigh. this is exactly what we saw when lia thomas started winning #everyone saw a justified question-- i.e. ''is this fair?''-- and instead of actually caring about the answer #(which was ''yes as much as-- or close to as much as-- anything in sports is fair'') #they just started hurling cruel and transphobic bullshit #and refusing to even CONSIDER the idea of trying to come from a place of compassion and creativity and respect #rhi talks #ok. sorry. vyvanse and coffee and annoying op-ed all hit me at the same time. god bless #transphobia / #intersexism / #LMAO I WAS ABOUT TO TRIGGER TAG FOR SPORTS??? LIKE REFLEXIVELY.