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Gender identity and sports

lundi 13 mai 2019 à 02:00

We should be open to the idea that a person's gender identity is significant for certain purposes, while per genetic and developmental background could be significant for certain purposes. One area where this may be useful is dividing sports competitors into classes.

Dividing sporting competitions into classes is a way of compensating for systematic differences in bodily strength or size. In many sports competitors are classed based on sex, but not always only that: boxing has classes based on weight, because otherwise the heavier boxers would have an inherent advantage.

Perhaps we could handicap each sport based on certain pertinent body measurements -- for instance, for running, leg length and/or lung capacity. This could potentially do a better job than sex-based classes, or gender-based classes, or prior-sex-based classes, and do it without reference to sex or gender.

There would be no reason to fuss if you took drugs that gave you longer legs, or bigger muscles, if your handicap took account of the effect.

Adders no longer need to hibernate

lundi 13 mai 2019 à 02:00

Adders in the UK no longer need to hibernate — it no longer gets so cold. But when there is a cold snap, this can kill them.

I thought the adder population was decreasing because deforestation was eliminating the log tables they need in order to multiply. ;-}.

US military funding

lundi 13 mai 2019 à 02:00

If America Can Find $716bn for the Military, It Can Fund the Green New Deal.

Protests in Sacramento

lundi 13 mai 2019 à 02:00

Thugs violently attacked protesters in Sacramento, and journalists covering them. The protest was against the thugs' rush to kill Stephon Clark.

Avoiding climate disaster

lundi 13 mai 2019 à 02:00

The only truly pragmatic approach to avoiding climate disaster is one that has a chance to do the job.

Ocasio-Cortez may be right that Pelosi could not achieve more by pushing the Green New Deal now. But she should not denigrate it.

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