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Sports authorities should ban trans women from competing against cis women. Fundamental fairness demands it. Yet sports authorities worldwide have been allowing trans women to do just that. Fairness be damned. Trans women banned Harry Potter author JK Rowling has been the face of efforts to enforce this ban. And it has cost her a lot. Millions… Read more.
Triathlon I refer you to Day 13 for introductory comments on this very challenging event – complete with the observation that seeing the vistas along this course in Rio was almost as interesting as watching the athletes compete. Still, I enjoyed watching the Women’s Triathlon far more than the men’s; and it had nothing to do… Read more.
There have only been a few cases of androgynous men competing as women in international competition. The most notorious of course was Polish sprinter Stanislawa Walasiewicz who won the women’s 100m at the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, but was found to have a “partially developed male genitalia” after her death in 1980. With all… Read more.
