Eric Vilain, the director of the Institute For Society And Genetics at UCLA, worked with the Association of Boxing Commissions when they wrote their policy on transgender athletes. He stated in Time magazine that “Male to female transsexuals have significantly less muscle strength and bone density, and higher fat mass, than males”[13] and was quoted as saying that, to be licensed, transgender female fighters must undergo complete “surgical anatomical changes …, including external genitalia and gonadectomy” (see sex reassignment surgery) and subsequently a minimum of two years of hormone replacement therapy, administered by a board certified specialist. In general concurrence with peer-reviewed scientific literature,[20] he states this to be “the current understanding of the minimum amount of time necessary to obviate male hormone gender related advantages in sports competition”. Vilain reviewed Fox’s medical records and said she has “clearly fulfilled all conditions.”[2] When asked if Fox could, nonetheless, be stronger than her competitors, Vilain replied that it was possible, but noted that “sports is made up of competitors who, by definition, have advantages for all kinds of genetics reasons”
She has only 2 knockouts in her career. And she has lost by knockout. And she hasn’t fought since 2014.
You really are a gullible idiot, aren’t you?
But in your world I guess it’s the people who actually listen to educated medical opinion who are guilty of “PC”-ness.
Hey, figured out that IQ question yet, Mr. High IQ? Clock is ticking.
It figures that he has to run for the Transgender panic. It is clear that that OP conversation is not interesting anymore after people like Murray are identified by people like Reich as racist; or in an also clumsy attempt at defending Murray and Sam an example of an intervention was pointed out by the Slacker himself that actually made Murray and others look more as the idiot racists that they are when they insisted before that that Hispanics would be unlikely to ever improve.
It figures than then, like a typical pseudo scientist, SlackerInc has to reach for the Godwin; not my problem if he decides to walk with people like that, they are people who embrace deplorable types of ignorance.
Like I said upthread, I don’t think the OP is being lured into bigotry, I think he’s just casting about for the safest expressions of it. Start with “scientific” racism, now “scientific” transphobia. Probably to be followed by “scientific” sexism, homophobia, and anti-Semitism. All in the name of challenging PC hysteria, of course.
Sorry to stall the conversation for a moment but I have to correct myself:
I misread SlackerInc’s post and thought the fighter herself (Fallon Fox) had said something on the lines of “cutting her dick off to beat up women”. It was my error, and in fact there is no reason to label this woman a “psycho”.
And as you can see from the video, those therapies did a marvelous job giving her the slighter bone structure and musculature of a woman. Oh wait…
Rogan maintains on the podcast that if you do estrogen therapy after puberty, it just protects the bone you already have. Now, I fully acknowledge that I don’t have the requisite biological knowledge to evaluate that assertion. But it sounds plausible, and common sense tells me that you cannot change an adult man’s bones to those of a woman and not cripple her, much less leave her in shape to fight professionally. Otherwise we are in the realm of TV science fiction.
Well, now I’m torn. Should I believe the world renowned medical expert who’s actually studied the issue … or should I believe the message board simpleton who can’t successfully comprehend a one sentence paragraph?
Naah, man, you don’t get it. The doc *has *to say those things, because he has to appear “woke”, man. Fear of not being “woke” is just, like, the biggest fear there is, man. It makes people say all kinds of shit they secretly don’t believe.
Believe the simpleton, man. He has no such fears, he tells it like it is. Even when he acknowledges he …no, wait … “fully acknowledges” he’s talking out of his puckered sphincter, he tells it. By D-K, he tells it over and over again.
Or should we listen to the “evil economist” who was shown to have gotten it thoroughly wrong on matters of verifiable fact, but stubbornly continues to insist that just the opposite is true? :dubious:
Here’s another fun example of duplicitous rhetoric, this time preemptive mockery of an assertion, to put a discrediting taint upon it—when it is in fact largely true. You could do it with anything, of course. “Yeah, man: people are going to quake in their boots and hide because the census form has one little question on it about citizenship. This super scary question is gonna totally make all the big bad red states get bigger and badder, and the blue states smaller and sadder. It’s a conspiracy, maan!”
Sorry, I shouldn’t take the mockery this far. It’s just that your posts are getting more and more ridiculous – from blaming random events on political correctness, to apparently misreading wikipedia, to hilariously declaring victory, to Godwining… to say nothing of the unrepentant white supremacism.
Dude, I was victorious, particularly on the funding thing. Don’t be a dirty gaslighter.
The woke crowd (TWC: not trying to “make it happen”, just want a short initialism for a referent I will use repeatedly) loves to create this kind of excluded middle scenario. If you blanch at the extreme rhetoric that demonizes straight white cisgender men (SWCM), you must be a rabid “alt-right” fanatic who wants to bring back the 1950s, with women kept safely in the kitchen and blacks picking cotton. Or if that’s an exaggeration in some cases, you’re at the least a Republican who opposes equality and progress.
An example comes to mind from a podcast I was listening to earlier today: KCRW’s “The Business”, which is about show business, Hollywood. They start each episode with “banter” about the latest news in “the biz”. Not gossip about stars, but stuff about movie studios’ bottom lines, corporate shakeups, efforts to redress inequality, etc.
So there is apparently a longtime member of the Academy who released what sounds like his version of the “Google memo”, lambasting the woman currently running things for going too far with her diversity project. One accusation they mentioned was that she supposedly declared that they would not admit any more white men into the Academy. This is an astonishing claim and an extremely radical policy if true, but the journalists discussing his memo did not engage with that at all. They went on in the next breath to say he will likely get pushback from all the people who want to see the Academy become more diverse and inclusive.
So, wait…it either has to continue to be a hidebound club of rich and reactionary old white men, or stop allowing white men to join at all?!? What about bringing in more women and minorities, making the ratio more diverse and reflective of the country, but still continuing to admit a few especially deserving white men? They do, after all, still represent a huge chunk of the population: in fact, there are more non-Hispanic white men in this country than there are black men, black women, Hispanic women, and Hispanic men, combined.