Thanks for another great article. as I'm sure you are both aware, this is a much larger story than blurring sexual identity in sports and its consequential 'unfairness'. It is, as Jennifer Bilek has suggested, ultimately an on-ramp to transhumanism, which I'm sure you'll deal with in subsequent installments.
First, you 'normalize' anything Goes and Nothing Matters, in a strategy to induce identity and cultural vertigo, and then you roll out (mandate) the New Normal.
Five years ago I would have balked at these suggestions. But the evidence is everywhere to be seen.
Note how the public messaging of this strange and clandestine "forecasting think tank" within the government of Canada has such tight fidelity with WEF promotional materials in its cartoonish and schizophrenic iconography, music choice, and overall texture and flavour.
Canada is a Beta test because we are a credulous, trusting, innocent and naive people.
Great comment once again. Thanks for the links. I agree, Canadians are "soft targets" for woke and globalist agendas.
I feel there is a concerted effort in modern society to make us unhappy with who we are. Stay-at-home mom's are looked down on by modern feminists for "only" being housewives. Conversely, women who work are made to feel guilty for not spending enough time with their kids. Men are told they have toxic masculinity and should stay silent. We are all told we are destroying the planet. We are born in the "wrong body" (interestingly, a spiritual concept) and media tells us our breasts are too small, arms are too skinny, eyelashes are too short, or our sex is "wrong" for our brain.
The first step for people who want to control us is to "unseat" us. If we are stable, happy, and satisfied we are harder to manipulate.
Julie and I have discussed transgenderism and how it relates to transhumanism. I think it is part of transhumanism, Julie considers it a stepping stone on the road to transhumanism. It's a bit of a nebulous concept.
"I feel there is a concerted effort in modern society to make us unhappy with who we are. Stay-at-home mom's are looked down on by modern feminists for "only" being housewives."
I agree with these statements. The second, especially, is a sly form of seductive dispossession sold to us as "liberation". If we can be kept in a permanent, anxious state of fractured inadequacy it is a lot easier to sell us palliatives in the form of things, thoughts, ideologies and agendas.
I don't know if this will be discussed in part 2... Intersex athletes with a Y chromosome (intersex athletes without the Y chromosome are not over-performing) medal 6x more than women, even though they can sometimes trick people into thinking they're women, they are not. During the Eastern Block years of dominating sport, they selected kids from a young age and trained them up, as a career "choice". Part of their sporting program success was selecting male intersex people (with a Y chromosome) pumped them with more testosterone, and they broke many many records. Sharron Davies, the British swimmer, spent many years with a group of other athletes trying to have those records removed, but that group also failed. Many of those records by males will never be broken.
I find the line "has XY chromosomes but looks like a woman".
Caster Semenya looks exactly like an ex-boyfriend of mine. He was a strapping Grecco Roman wrestler with a godly physique. I think language such as "looks like a woman/man"is pointless because our external appearance is a social construct (how we wear our hair, our clothes, how we smile, specially in trad countries, people mostly conform to societal expectations of performance. People may superficially *feel* Semenya looks like a woman, but I, as a non performative person, only see the Y chromosome within :)
Well written and certainly a topic of interest. Another solution would be to expand the categories to compete under. 1) female 2) FTM 3) Male 4) MTF ( in no particular order )
With respect to the intersex and the non binary athletes according to their XX vs XY status and hormone status.
These people DO NOT want to compete amongst themselves. Their desire is BE a woman to BEAT women. They have zero interest in beating each other. That is their whole shtick.
My understanding of the MTF is that they want to be recognized as women and included as women in women events to honor their female brain/neurophysiology. The difference in sport is that it is a test of the body's capacity to excel and as aptly pointed out in this article MTF have a striking advantage over their natal female competitors. I hope soon another transition occurs where the sport uses a different classification model to determine who gets to compete together.
The anatomical and physiological reasons men should not be competing with women are the SAME reasons men should not be in shelters with women, should not be in bathrooms/changerooms with women, should not be in prison with women. Men's anatomical/physiological advantages don't stop at "sport".
It appears they do need even more special rules now, and sport is the topic at hand, so that's what I'll be focusing on in this thread. Thanks for your comments.
What I'd like to see from the sporting community is REALITY based argumentation. The sporting world should be saying: "we do not recognise fake sex id". That would make it not a "special rule for sport", but a proper taking stand for reality. By law, "biology" has no legal status, so arguing for exceptions based on "biology" is weak legal argumentation. Socially, people no longer agree what is "biology". And as a biologist, this is incredibly frustrating.
It was certainly easier in sport when the chromosomal gender and anatomical phenotype, and neuroendocrine patterns were all gender matched. In masters sport programs to manage the disadvantage of age induced decline. People compete together but are ranked according to their age group in five year increments.
ParaOlympics tries their best , as imperfect a system as it may be, to rank according to similar disabilities.
People "identify" according to their neurophysiology ( brain gender ) and thanks to epigenetics and all manner of environmental stressors - it got complicated. Until we have a reliable hormone challenge test or some other marker to ascertain brain gender I don't think it fair to just outright dismiss how people "identify" by calling it "fake".
Perhaps the simpler solution is to compete in sport according to unaltered body body type. Now if a natal woman has a male brain with male advantage visual spatial skills in shooting competition then be the best you can be. If a male bodied athlete identifies as a woman for swim competition they can wear the female bathing suit if they so choose and yet they compete in the men's category or XY category according to their body type. If an XY has a female phenotype due to a very rare condition they compete according to their body type. Maybe it's not that simple...maybe it is.
This is one case where a seemingly complicated issue may actually have a relatively simple solution.
In any sport where male physiology confers an advantage athletes should be placed in genetic classes.
XX, XO and XXX in one class, and XY, XXY and XYY in another.
In sports where there is no advantage to male physiology, there should be no division.
For example, in the equestrian and shooting (Biathlon excepted) sports there needs be no distinction, whereas in weight lifting, running, etc., there should be clear genetic distinction.
I suppose Testicular Feminization may pose its own unique challenge. In this case the physiology may be female despite the genetics. Having said this, it is the very rare case where physiology is entirely female, and the anatomy never is.
So perhaps add a third class for intersex athletes...
Men have genetic advantages in targeting, tracking objects in flight, visual acuity, and lean body mass that are advantages in the examples of equestrian and shooting as well. I actually can't think of a sport where males don't have genetic advantages. Stay tuned for Part 2, or better yet, read the book "The Sports Gene" by David Epstein.
Equestrian is as close as it gets, but that's because most of the athletic performance is by the horse.
There also seems to be a trend in that hyper marathon thingy, which I don't know if it will ever become a mainstream sport, that sport seems to quash the standard male advantages, but, it could be that the sport is still early on and not enough cream as floated to the top yet.
Like when Canadians dominated snowboard, until the cream from the rest of the world floated up.
It's already that. A male is a person with a Y chromosome, a woman is a person without a Y chromosome. Reproduction, gamete design, is what separates the sexes and all that goes with it.
Thanks for another great article. as I'm sure you are both aware, this is a much larger story than blurring sexual identity in sports and its consequential 'unfairness'. It is, as Jennifer Bilek has suggested, ultimately an on-ramp to transhumanism, which I'm sure you'll deal with in subsequent installments.
First, you 'normalize' anything Goes and Nothing Matters, in a strategy to induce identity and cultural vertigo, and then you roll out (mandate) the New Normal.
Five years ago I would have balked at these suggestions. But the evidence is everywhere to be seen.
Jennifer Bilek's blog: https://www.the11thhourblog.com/
Policy Horizons Canada : The future of "Reproduction"
https://youtu.be/EB3RPHU34YI?list=PLKk1nn40bfVDtsire0deChL7axHEqUBpf
Policy Horizons Canada: What Is Biodigital Convergence?
https://youtu.be/YDuv63Qa8DE
Note how the public messaging of this strange and clandestine "forecasting think tank" within the government of Canada has such tight fidelity with WEF promotional materials in its cartoonish and schizophrenic iconography, music choice, and overall texture and flavour.
Canada is a Beta test because we are a credulous, trusting, innocent and naive people.
Great comment once again. Thanks for the links. I agree, Canadians are "soft targets" for woke and globalist agendas.
I feel there is a concerted effort in modern society to make us unhappy with who we are. Stay-at-home mom's are looked down on by modern feminists for "only" being housewives. Conversely, women who work are made to feel guilty for not spending enough time with their kids. Men are told they have toxic masculinity and should stay silent. We are all told we are destroying the planet. We are born in the "wrong body" (interestingly, a spiritual concept) and media tells us our breasts are too small, arms are too skinny, eyelashes are too short, or our sex is "wrong" for our brain.
The first step for people who want to control us is to "unseat" us. If we are stable, happy, and satisfied we are harder to manipulate.
Julie and I have discussed transgenderism and how it relates to transhumanism. I think it is part of transhumanism, Julie considers it a stepping stone on the road to transhumanism. It's a bit of a nebulous concept.
"I feel there is a concerted effort in modern society to make us unhappy with who we are. Stay-at-home mom's are looked down on by modern feminists for "only" being housewives."
I agree with these statements. The second, especially, is a sly form of seductive dispossession sold to us as "liberation". If we can be kept in a permanent, anxious state of fractured inadequacy it is a lot easier to sell us palliatives in the form of things, thoughts, ideologies and agendas.
Like so many things of recent years, more BS. If you call it out, you are obviously shunned and shamed. Society is being destroyed, fabric by fabric.
I don't know if this will be discussed in part 2... Intersex athletes with a Y chromosome (intersex athletes without the Y chromosome are not over-performing) medal 6x more than women, even though they can sometimes trick people into thinking they're women, they are not. During the Eastern Block years of dominating sport, they selected kids from a young age and trained them up, as a career "choice". Part of their sporting program success was selecting male intersex people (with a Y chromosome) pumped them with more testosterone, and they broke many many records. Sharron Davies, the British swimmer, spent many years with a group of other athletes trying to have those records removed, but that group also failed. Many of those records by males will never be broken.
I find the line "has XY chromosomes but looks like a woman".
Caster Semenya looks exactly like an ex-boyfriend of mine. He was a strapping Grecco Roman wrestler with a godly physique. I think language such as "looks like a woman/man"is pointless because our external appearance is a social construct (how we wear our hair, our clothes, how we smile, specially in trad countries, people mostly conform to societal expectations of performance. People may superficially *feel* Semenya looks like a woman, but I, as a non performative person, only see the Y chromosome within :)
Well written and certainly a topic of interest. Another solution would be to expand the categories to compete under. 1) female 2) FTM 3) Male 4) MTF ( in no particular order )
With respect to the intersex and the non binary athletes according to their XX vs XY status and hormone status.
Hormone status can be changed, and can't be used to fairly place people in divisions. Stay tuned for Part 2...
These people DO NOT want to compete amongst themselves. Their desire is BE a woman to BEAT women. They have zero interest in beating each other. That is their whole shtick.
My understanding of the MTF is that they want to be recognized as women and included as women in women events to honor their female brain/neurophysiology. The difference in sport is that it is a test of the body's capacity to excel and as aptly pointed out in this article MTF have a striking advantage over their natal female competitors. I hope soon another transition occurs where the sport uses a different classification model to determine who gets to compete together.
The anatomical and physiological reasons men should not be competing with women are the SAME reasons men should not be in shelters with women, should not be in bathrooms/changerooms with women, should not be in prison with women. Men's anatomical/physiological advantages don't stop at "sport".
Sport shouldn't need special rules.
Governments need to stop handing out fake sex id.
It appears they do need even more special rules now, and sport is the topic at hand, so that's what I'll be focusing on in this thread. Thanks for your comments.
What I'd like to see from the sporting community is REALITY based argumentation. The sporting world should be saying: "we do not recognise fake sex id". That would make it not a "special rule for sport", but a proper taking stand for reality. By law, "biology" has no legal status, so arguing for exceptions based on "biology" is weak legal argumentation. Socially, people no longer agree what is "biology". And as a biologist, this is incredibly frustrating.
It was certainly easier in sport when the chromosomal gender and anatomical phenotype, and neuroendocrine patterns were all gender matched. In masters sport programs to manage the disadvantage of age induced decline. People compete together but are ranked according to their age group in five year increments.
ParaOlympics tries their best , as imperfect a system as it may be, to rank according to similar disabilities.
People "identify" according to their neurophysiology ( brain gender ) and thanks to epigenetics and all manner of environmental stressors - it got complicated. Until we have a reliable hormone challenge test or some other marker to ascertain brain gender I don't think it fair to just outright dismiss how people "identify" by calling it "fake".
Perhaps the simpler solution is to compete in sport according to unaltered body body type. Now if a natal woman has a male brain with male advantage visual spatial skills in shooting competition then be the best you can be. If a male bodied athlete identifies as a woman for swim competition they can wear the female bathing suit if they so choose and yet they compete in the men's category or XY category according to their body type. If an XY has a female phenotype due to a very rare condition they compete according to their body type. Maybe it's not that simple...maybe it is.
This is one case where a seemingly complicated issue may actually have a relatively simple solution.
In any sport where male physiology confers an advantage athletes should be placed in genetic classes.
XX, XO and XXX in one class, and XY, XXY and XYY in another.
In sports where there is no advantage to male physiology, there should be no division.
For example, in the equestrian and shooting (Biathlon excepted) sports there needs be no distinction, whereas in weight lifting, running, etc., there should be clear genetic distinction.
I suppose Testicular Feminization may pose its own unique challenge. In this case the physiology may be female despite the genetics. Having said this, it is the very rare case where physiology is entirely female, and the anatomy never is.
So perhaps add a third class for intersex athletes...
Men have genetic advantages in targeting, tracking objects in flight, visual acuity, and lean body mass that are advantages in the examples of equestrian and shooting as well. I actually can't think of a sport where males don't have genetic advantages. Stay tuned for Part 2, or better yet, read the book "The Sports Gene" by David Epstein.
Equestrian is as close as it gets, but that's because most of the athletic performance is by the horse.
There also seems to be a trend in that hyper marathon thingy, which I don't know if it will ever become a mainstream sport, that sport seems to quash the standard male advantages, but, it could be that the sport is still early on and not enough cream as floated to the top yet.
Like when Canadians dominated snowboard, until the cream from the rest of the world floated up.
It's already that. A male is a person with a Y chromosome, a woman is a person without a Y chromosome. Reproduction, gamete design, is what separates the sexes and all that goes with it.