British shot putter goes on Piers Morgan to try to save women's sports. #sexnotgender

99.99% of women are unaffected by any of this ado, so you are talking about a tiny tiny fraction of women being potentially deprived of materially quantifiable benefits. Why should the cis woman’s feelings matter more than the trans woman’s in the BQ scenario?

You can tape NPA G-league games and watch them instead of WMBA games, you know, if you're into seeing bottom tier male athletes compete against one another.

What? PMS stands for "premenstrual syndrome." Premenstrual means it happens before menstruation, not simultaneous with menstruation.

From the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology: Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is a group of physical and behavioral changes that some women experience before their menstrual periods every month.

Medical News Today: Premenstrual syndrome, or PMS, refers to the physical and psychological symptoms that females experience in the week or two leading up to their menstrual period.

Medline Plus dot gov, the public information website of the USA's National Institutes of Health: Premenstrual syndrome, or PMS, is a group of symptoms that start one to two weeks before your period. Most women have at least some symptoms of PMS, and the symptoms go away after their periods start.

The UK's NHS: PMS (premenstrual syndrome) is the name for the symptoms women can experience in the weeks before their menstrual period.

No one who has ever menstruated, had PMS, been close to someone who has experienced these phenomena, or knows the first thing about human female biology and life experience during the time between menarche and menopause, would ever confuse menstruation and PMS and suggest someone can be "helplessly menstruating" and "PMSing" at the same time like you did.

I’m learning all about snooker. Reanne Evans is the women’s goat. She kicks men’s asses all the time. She says it’s all about coordination and strategy and not physicality and gender has no place in the world of snooker.

She’s been battling for years to have equal access for women to the men’s competitions and have elite competitions be gender neutral. Just today she beat the former world champion, Stuart Bingham, in some major event.

thenationalnews.com

Reanne Evans will not be snookered behind the sexism barrier by the men in sport

Associated Press

Evans, who has won the last 10 women’s world titles, will take part in the qualifying today. Three wins, and she will become the first female to reach snooker’s biggest stage at the Crucible Theatre.

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So how does BAA determine the elilibility for women's race? Do they follow the same policy as WA? If not, how is Boston marahton relevant on the issue of WA's new policy?

I'll accept nothing less than an outright ban on trans women competing with biological women who transitioned post puberty. I am no longer willing to entertain the idea that inclusion trumps fairness here. I'm done.

For youth sports, do whatever you want. Be a kid, but for high school and beyond solid rules have to be put in place and if that hurts a few feelings then too bad. Sports have cuts, kids get varying playing time, they don't make varsity and kids feelings get hurt all the time. Fairness for cis girls should be more important than the inclusion of biological males.

Sure many of the physical and psychological phenomena which that article lists as "PMS symptoms" - aches and pains, thirst and appetite changes, fatigue, swelling of the hands or feet, skin problems, insomnia, poor concentration, depression, irritability, anxiety, angry outbursts, crying, nap taking, changes in sexual desire etc. - can and do occur during menstruation.

But the fact that these phenomena can and do occur whilst a girl or woman is menstruating means they are not occurring premenstrually and thus they are not caused by, or part of, premenstrual syndrome.

All these same symptoms can and do occur during times of life when women and girls can't get PMS because we don't ovulate and menstruate then, such as during pregnancy, after menopause and prior to puberty adolescence.

All the symptoms that can be counted as PMS symptoms in girls and women during the 40 or years we are capable of ovulation and menstruation if they occur at the time in our cycles after we've ovulated but before our menstrual flow has started can and do occur in males too. Because the same exact physical and psychological symptoms that people experience can have many, many different causes.

The majority of people with symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) such as flatulence, loose stools, constipation and abdominal pain do not have those symptoms because they have IBS. Many people with symptoms of serious immune deficiency do not have those symptoms because of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Most people who experience crushing fatigue and are feeling extremely "poorly," as the British would put it, do not have those symptoms due to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).

Actually it does. Why should even one woman be excluding from competing because of this? Whether it's one or a million is irrelevant and because we can't predict the future, there is simply no way of knowing what this situation is in 10, 20 years from now, now that there is precedent. Furthermore it's always easy to say this if you were to be a male, or if it didn't involve anyone close to you (a mother, wife, daughter, friend etc) - which of course would be an extremely narrow minded and totally lacking in empathy POV.

Your reference to "trans women in the 70's" is so utterly ridiculous it defies belief. You, just like myself, have no idea how many trans woman competed in marathons over the last 50 years - for all we know it could be absolutely zero. And even if they did, doesn't mean it was right then as it isn't now. Furthermore, the current and social climate of the past 5 years would anecdotally suggest that it's far more likely that more transgender women are taking the places of biological women in events as society has been held ransom into accepting that it's somehow fair.

Your scope of empathy is what is truly staggering kimosabe.

I don't know the answer to that, which is why I specifically referenced the event (The Boston Marathon) "in the past" (it's there in the post you quoted me on). Because I know that previous editions of the Boston Marathon allowed entrants into the womens race purely based on their self stipulated "identity", and this came at the behest of other female applicants.

Biological women are definitely better at birthing humans and feeding them from their own body. So they always have that.