Transgender runner wins regionals by over a minute

Maine is famously purple, not even close to homogeneous progressive. Have you been here?

Segregate? Strange choice of words.

I want to empower female athletes to participate in sports.

If you are referring to the study, that just shows how single sex female sport activity (which did not even exist a broadly in the US decades ago) benefits girls for a variety of reasons. You didn't read the article, I can tell.

they acted like he was so 16 min 5k runner but not even close. He ran over 19 minutes...

This ^^^^^^^

It's such a no-brainer... We already do this! All we need to do is bring everyone into the fold.

try this

In the past, 61% to 98% of cases diagnosed with gender identity disorder/gender dysphoria in early childhood reconciled their gender identity with their birth sex through the natural course of puberty, if not earlier. Many of these children simply grew up to be gay or lesbian adults. Traditionally “feminine” boys were far more likely to grow up to be gay men rather than transgender women, and the same was true for gender-nonconforming girls.

Am I supposed to take this "junk science" seriously? If you read the discussion section, the author is open about "helping detransitioners." It was clearly written with explicit political agenda.

You mean, "whistleblowers" like Jamie Reed?

assignedmedia.org

Jamie Reed’s Allegations Are Not Even Partially Confirmed — Assigned

Evan Urquhart

The New York Times claimed to have corroborated claims about a St. Louis clinic for gender dysphoric youth. We looked at every single claim.

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If you know more credible whistleblowers, let us know.

According to the anti-trans ideology, this is injustice to all boys who finished behind the trans boy. That's why they pass legislations to ban trans boys from boys' sports.

But trans boys are not welcome in girls sports, either. Remember Mack Beggs? He was lambasted for competing in the category of his sex assigned at birth. So should trans boys like him be allowed to compete in any division?

Since you haven't got the message yet, I will repeat for the umpteenth time. Gender non-conforming expression those kids show is a sign of their gender incongruence, not its evidence. When kids show those expressions, there is a reason to think they might have gender dysphoria. But no credible psychiatrist determine that based on those expressions alone.

Dr, Jack Turban explains it here. (Starts around 2:40.)

"Assigned Media" doesn't want the allegations to be true? Color me shocked. You just posted that you aren't going to take seriously the detransition findings of someone who "is open about helping detransitioners." That's by your own standards -- some super pro-trans apologist blog finding that ackshually, trans clinics are hunky-dory is miles more "junk" than that.

Dr. Michelle Telfer explains the process in Australia. (Starts around 9:40.)

The average time between initial referral and seeing a pediatrician is about two years.

Here is one of her former patients talking about her experience of being "interrogated." (Starts around 2:22.)

This will force cis girls to unnecessary scrutiny... wait, it has already happened.

cbsnews.com

Utah investigates winning student-athlete's gender after parents of second- and third-place finishers submit complaints

Officials looked into her records dating back to kindergarten and said the student-athlete and her parents were unaware of the complaint and investigation.

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It's not our fault that Texas is stupid. Trans boys who are taking testosterone should compete against the boys. This is completely obvious to everyone except the lawmakers in Texas who created this situation.

Enforcement should be quite easy, actually. If a kid is enrolled as a boy from grade K through 7, and then suddenly shows up as a girl in 8th grade, that kid should not compete in girl's sports. Also, you don't need a genital inspection to know that this kid in Maine is a boy, and the same goes for most (all?) of these high profile cases.

"Assigned media" has never claimed to be a science journal. So why don't you address the actual points made by the article instead of attacking the messenger?

I called the review article as "junk science" because it propagates the nonsense of how trans girls grow up to be gay men and trans boys grow up to be lesbians.

We have been told how trans women are sexual predators and they will attack women in public restrooms because they are sexually attracted to women. So they were not trans girls who grew up to be gay men, right? Where were those sexual predators when they were minors?

But you don't know how many "low profile" cases exist out there, because those trans girls who are finishing in the middle of the pack cannot be identified by "eyeball tests."

Thanks, but the link you gave is to the 2019 IAAF/World Athletics regulations for athletes with disorders of male sex development in women's track & field. Those now-supplanted regulations applied solely athletes to competing in women's elite track & field with male DNA, testes, male levels of T and male androgen receptors in good working order like Caster Semenya - not to any female athletes.

The posts I was asking about were specifically about the WADA testosterone limit for women (the female kind):

Feeling Sad wrote: The WADA concentration limit for women is 2.5 nmol/liter.

dont really care wrote:I believe the WADA limit for women is 5.0nmol/l

I want to know where I can find in writing the testosterone level that WADA and USADA consider the top end of the range considered normal, natural and allowed in female athletes.

By that logic, we should all just stop following running, never visit Letsrun.com message boards ever again, and just focus on the ‘real problems’ of the world. No thanks. Sports are important - if for no other reason that they are a better battlefield than ‘real life’…. Wouldn’t it be nice if Israel and Palestine could just settle their differences over a foot race?

I'm not advocating that kids get dna tests but the who genital inspection thing is annoying hyperbole. It doesn't happen. Sex can be determined via cheek swab.