So, here's what happened. @Martina Navratilova, you know, minor tennis player who won 18 grand slams, 31 Grand Slam women's doubles titles, 10 Grand Slam mixed doubles, 9 Wimbledon Ladies Singles Championships, and 15 mixed double titles, the last at age 49 at the US Open.
All very minor stuff, but just saying. Makes a statement on Twitter saying that men can't just proclaim themselves a "female and then be able to compete against women." @Martina asked that there be standards. Sounds reasonable even for a mediocre tennis player, right? 
Then the pile-on began with various men telling Martina that she doesn't know what she is saying. You know, minor athlete and all. Not a world famous tennis star like @ChloeL002.
But wait--there's more. World famous @rachelvmckinnon comes on to skool @Martina telling her that "people's genitals are IRRELEVANT to sports performance" making the claim that trans identified males have no advantage over women as McKinnon's October victory clearly proved.
Focussing on genitals, according to McKinnon, is transphobic, but discussing testosterone isn't? Uh, OK. Anywhoo, McKinnon keeps attacking @martina and refuses to listen to what she is saying...
And over again... Despite his PhD in philosophy, McKinnon is unable to follow the thread of the discussion as @Martina refers McKinnon's condescending attitude & McKinnon instead misunderstands Martina's comment "about doing more for trans people than you can ever dream of" to be
about himself (McKinnon) when in fact, Martina is referring to Renee Richards.
Now, remember this is the same McKinnon who in 2017 expressed outrage over Tuvel's paper on transracialism....and then 15 months later...
McKinnon compares himself to a black male athlete:
So McKinnon the expert of all things from sports to philosophy to transracialism as absurd to himself as transracial, demands that @Martina apologise, cuz that's just what gals do, right?
And @Martina tells McKinnon like it is, having put up with his abuse quite a bit...red herrings about males having no advantage, the fact that he attempts to upstage a world-class athlete with his tantrum over facts not coinciding with his fantasy...
Citing much hokum on sports & men being oppressed by women who express their concerns, McKinnon is unable to respond to, er, scientific facts like this:
Instead, more attitude....
And McKinnon missed that philosophy lecture on dialectic as he is clearly unaware as to how his "conversation mode" comes off to others....
And the ciliegina sulla torta: the hope that she regrets... In nomine Patris et fillii et Spiritus Sancti... I guess? I mean, it would seem that Martina must repent for her ways/thinking as a second-rate athlete to McKinnon's recent "win" which garnered much attention.
But here's the fundamental issue at heart here: transgender identity does not actually mean that anyone changes sex. You have heard that sex is not gender, =inversely gender is not sex. I can identify as I wish but the fundamental reality of the body is that sex is immutable.
And where more appropriate for a discussion of sex than the one arena where somatic (the body) is the foundation of the discipline. There are copious studies which show the many differences between the male and female body to the fact that the male bodies have increased numbers
of myonuclei (muscle fibres) which potentially allow Hubbard's muscles to train better having a male body. Also, the Caenegem et al study in 2015 which examined 49 “normally active” trans-identified males over two years of testosterone suppression which concluded:
“Although trans women, before CSH, have a lower aBMD and cortical bone size compared with control men, their skeletal status is well preserved during CSH treatment, despite of substantial muscle loss.”
And many more studies.... This is just to say that the science does shed light on this subject to the satisfaction that a third category IS being introduced for the 2020 Olympics.... Stay tuned to my forthcoming article on this subject... [To be continued]
