This is interesting. Revealing, but AL doesn’t realise it.

AL assumes something has shifted for women, captured by the US right etc.

AL doesn’t consider that something has shifted in what women have been asked to accept.
We *have* been using toilets and so forth with transwomen for decades. Maybe some we clock, and no idea how many we don't (because we don't).
It was a social contract - a compromise - for a *specific demographic* who were either completely undetectable as male, or for whom we rarely encountered but for whom we, presumably understanding male violence, shared refuge.
Yet now, in the last five years, suddenly women have changed their minds.

And the conclusion - by idiots - is that it's our fault. They can't comprehend that transwomen are - phrase incoming - not what they used to be (and that's pun as well). It must be that we've gone insane.
Women suddenly object.

There are two options:
1. Women have gone insane.
2, Something else went insane.

@jackappleby
@jackappleby You either think a load of socialist, leftie, knitting, vegan women went all Trump, or you think maybe you're missing something.
But AL can't consider that AL (I'm guessing "he") might have missed something. Furthermore, AL is so confident he hasn't missed anything, he's not willing to engage in a proper discussion. AL just swears and shouts abuse.

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This is a 200 yard freestyle analysis of Lia Thomas, a transgender woman and US college swimmer. Lia began transition last (Covid-cancelled) season, having competed in male competition for the three previous years.
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Lia's most recent time is -4.2% slower than the pre-transition PB.
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That is, Lia was (very) slightly further ahead of Bridget O'Leary in P2 than O'Leary was to the slowest finisher.
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@RichardDawkins Professor Dawkins, thank you.

In February 2020, Dr Colin Wright @swipewright (evolutionary biologist) and I (developmental biologist) wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, called The Dangerous Denial Of Sex.

archive.md/puTGy
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For this op-ed, we were vilified.
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At BASELINE, all characters have broadly similar metrics, around 5 points for each.

One character may score a point higher on SIZE and a point lower on SKILL. Another scores a point higher on STAMINA but sacrifices a STRENGTH point. And so forth.
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Richard Budgett, medical director of the IOC, is saying here that sports performance is not proportional to natural (“endogenous”) testosterone level.

What do we know?
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2. Males have, as a class, higher testosterone (T) levels than females.
3. T has well-researched effects on sports relevant physiology.
4. The effects of T on sports relevant physiology happens during male puberty.
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Devil’s advocate: I could have written a better framework document for them.
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Read on.
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