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Equating genetic outcomes (e.g. height) and advantages gained through a male or female puberty is a mathematical malpractice. Any advantages gained through male puberty will be seen across an entire biologically male population. Whereas genetic lottery outcomes are less predictable and more sparse.

What do you define as "biologically male" here? This is a term often used by bigots, so I just want to make sure we're on the same base. Biology isn't binary, far from it. Intersex people are the ones most often caught up in any sort of gender testing for sports. Most of them don't even know they are intersex, and find out through some competition excluding them. And what about trans women that went on puberty blockers early, that never went through a testosterone-driven puberty? While the advantage for someone who did go through puberty is debatable and varies from discipline to discipline, for someone who didn't it's non-existent. Would you agree that it's only fair that they should be allowed to compete? Where do you draw the line then?

If the handful of trans athletes are mostly top performers, it could indicate that their participation hinders the competitiveness of the competition.

And you are getting this claim from where, exactly? This is pure conjecture on your part

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Once again, the same is true for many other factors. Long legs help to be good at running, I'd presume, but we're not measuring femurs for college sports. And the variation in top performers does not exist, at least not in the way you're impling. Trans people are actually statistically underrepresented in competitive sports.

The singular focus on a handful of trans athletes, while actively misgendering those same athletes, is a hate and harassment campaign spread by people who couldn't care less about fairness in sport.

That's not on testosterone. At most it plays a part in it, but this behavior is the result of a patriarchal society. (Solely) blaming testosterone defends shitheels like this one, and diminishes people with testosterone-dominated bodies that are different

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So someone won at a college competition. About 1% of people are trans, so you'll see some winners. It'd be weirder if you didn't. The records stated there, 25s for the women's 200? The world record has been <22s for decades now. That's not exactly "dominating a sport".

But do you notice how everyone quoted in the article is actively transphobic, misgendering her and another athlete? If this was truly about sports, why go to that length? You could have a nuanced, respectful debate about fairness in sport. Yet whenever the topic is trans people, it's always those that already deny their very existence that are the most 'concerned about fairness'. This has never been about sport.

This is just a convenient front for the right's culture war bullshit. Don't fall for it.

That is simply not true. A male puberty does give some benefits in some sports. But any advantages in, e.g. muscle density, vanish once hormone levels are accounted for. And hormone levels have been (over-)* controlled for decades now.

You know what also gives you an advantage? Being taller. Or having higher blood oxygenation. Or certain abnormal body proportions. Once you get to top level sports, you have people that basically won the genetic lottery, mixed with a shitload of training. Just look at Michael Phelps or Katie Ledecky in swimming, for example. Both are very exceptional in both body and technique, and dominated their sports.

So why is trans inclusion such a divisive point, but, let's say, height is not? Tall women dominate basketball, should we ban everyone over 1.80m? Or test for hemoglobin before runs?

Trans athletes dominating a sport has not happened in any relevant capacity. I challenge you to find even a single case where it has. This is purely a political talking point, nothing about this is about sports

* Women have (sometimes illegally, and often without consent) been subjected to hormone and chromosome testing for decades, to the detriment of mostly cis- and intersex women. I'm not aware of any trans women caught up in this, at least on an Olympic level.

Disappointed that Greenland and West Sahara have data... But at least NZ is missing

Some do

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_denial_artillery_munition

Get rotated, idiot

As far as I remember, it is Cherenkov radiation, but from the water in your eyes

You are twisting words beyond recognition here, and for what? The guy was an IDF soldier. How is that not "working along IDF soldiers"? It's not saying "working for the IDF", which seems to be your criterion.

Next you're going to complain that it says soldiers, plural, I assume? That would at least be a valid criticism in your quest to... archive what, exactly?