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2 Jul, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Is there a different source than the Daily Mail on this?
The Biden admin has already been publishing summary statistics, though they haven't included sexual orientation (& I don't think they should!). &, while it's fine to publish gender *summaries*, it shouldn't be broken down by cis/trans.
In terms of the Senate, there is a real diversity problem. Schumer & the DSC should be pressured to recruit people of color as candidates, especially for diverse states. They have done that to some extent (Harrison, Cortez Masto, Padilla), but it should be a top priority.
Oh, and Raphael Warnock!

In any case, they have been trying to recruit diverse candidates & I think they should try even harder, especially for states w/ large Black &/or Latino populations.
And, back to Biden: I don't think anyone's LGBTQ status should be requested by the government in the first place &, if it is, it should *never* be linked to individuals. What happens to career officials when another republican gets elected?

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3 Jul
People keep telling me that some female athletes partially went thru "male puberty" & this should weigh into their qualification for the women's category. There is a huge amount of variation in many aspects of puberty & not a sharp line dividing all girls from all boys.
I don't think athletes should be eliminated based on testosterone levels in the first place. Given this rule exists, we should note it 1. only affects female athletes (cis or trans) & 2. is selectively applied to *testosterone* & not any number of other physiological differences
If the logic is that some women produce too much testosterone & that this gives them an unfair advantage over other women, this same rule should be applied to men. Men vary widely in testosterone production. More testosterone confers certain advantages.
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2 Jul
This is awful. There's a lot of individual variation in testosterone levels. Note, too, the illogic: a woman can have *too* much naturally-produced testosterone, which eliminates her, whereas the same is not true for men. So does the advantage not exist for men?
One thing I'm trying to get clear on: is testosterone testing *different* for men and women in the Olympics & other sports? This older article (2013) seems to imply that men are tested based on T/E ratio, but women are tested on absolute values. . . . sportsscience.co/supplements/ol….
I'm against any of this testing outside performance-enhancing drug detection. That said, it's even more atrocious if men are tested according to a ratio and women are tested according to an absolute value that arbitrarily determines whether they are in the "male range"
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27 Jun
I'm interested in hearing from people who were either 1. personally engaged in any kind of social justice activism from ~1960-2010 or 2. highly tuned into such activism. What were points where ostensible allies &/or mainstream commentators said such movements were going too far?
For example, I'd be interested in hearing from LGBTQ people who remember AIDS activism about cases where people said, "I understand there's a real problem here, but you're going too far"
This is for a piece I'm working on, just FYI
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26 Jun
You can disagree w/ the act of graffiti, but I think calling this an anti-Catholic hate crime is incorrect, at least conceptually, if not legally. Would people be so ready to label it as anti-Catholic hate if the graffiti had been drawn by white victims of child sexual assault?
Here, the protest is not against the Catholic faith. It's not targeting an ethnicity. It is against an institution that has power & inflicted harm. Importantly, the graffiti contains no stereotypes about Catholics; rather, it centers the victims.
Now, I'd hear arguments about graffiti on a specific church that had nothing to do with the murder of a thousand indigenous children. I might not agree, but I'd hear you out. However, even if you think such a thing is unjust, it's not the same as an anti-Catholic hate crime.
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26 Jun
It's amazing how the anti-CRT folks are pretending to be ignorant about how theories work. I could have started out as a utilitarian, decided I was better described as a consequentialist, but then still incorporated elements of utilitarianism into my own theory-building
It's like the most normal thing in the world for an academic to say, "I'm not X, but X influenced my thinking."
Also it's ridiculous that people are acting like proving someone has been influenced by Critical race theory is some kind of investigative win. It's like if I said, "I'm not a structuralist" & then later said, "Foucault influenced me in college," & folks were like FUCKING GOTCHA
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26 Jun
I'm glad journalists are looking more at ideological diversity among voters of color; however they should be careful about confounding differences in anti-racist rhetoric/tactics w/ "centrist" or "conservative" positions on racism itself. nytimes.com/2021/06/26/us/… Image
For example, James Clyburn has had disagreements with some activists about anti-racism tactics, policy, & rhetoric, but these disagreements do not amount to him taking a conservative position on racism. Nor are Black opponents of "Defund" necessarily conservative
When it comes to something like anti-racism, I think it is a mistake to take one movement (e.g. Defund), stake it out as the most "progressive" option, & then define all other approaches as more centrist/conservative. The differences in approach are more complex than that.
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