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Originally Posted by fixed_truth
Hasn't defining biological sex always depended on context? |
Um yeah, that's my point? For example, socially Thomas may present as a woman, but in an athletic context Thomas is male.
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Katrina Karkazis at Amherst College
If that's the Karkazis who wrote
Testosterone (a great book btw), she'd be the first to admit that she's a cultural anthropologist specialising in social issues of race and gender, not a biologist.
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Secondly, biological advantages from being a male at birth have shown to greatly reduce in relation to the type/length of transition. The argument is how much and if that's enough to maintain fairness.
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Lia Thomas is a 22-year old male who was training with a competitive men's swim squad only the year before last. This is as fair as me turning up to a primary-school chess competition and announcing "oh I don't have an advantage any more, I haven't played much the past couple of years" and then smashing a bunch of little kids like it's something to be proud of. What a prick.