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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • You bring up a lot of valid points, however the main reason I brought up that quote from the article was to highlight that the concerns people have aren’t unfounded. There may be ways to mitigate it, but I think we can all agree this is still an evolving space.

    Ultimately, women sports was created to provide a space for “women” to play sports. I put women in quotes because from its inception women sports was used to discriminate between people an in group (women) and an out group (men). So the question is, does “women” mean AFAB, post-op trans, people who identify as women, men? No matter how you slice it you’re going to be discriminating, the real question is, what group are you protecting?




  • I believe the HRT Stat is only for people who have not gone through puberty, as detailed in the following passage from a research paper.

    To date, the only established driver for the athletic differences between men and women is testosterone, first during puberty and then ongoing [5]. For example, higher testosterone levels along with lower estrogen levels during a typical male puberty result in larger physical stature. In addition, there are bone formation differences that relate to hormone levels in puberty, such as the widened pelvis that develops during a typical female puberty. Many hormone-related physical characteristics acquired during puberty are not reversed if hormone levels are changed later in life. By contrast, muscle mass, fat distribution, and red blood cell mass are among the physical characteristics that relate to an individual’s current testosterone levels. Such characteristics may indeed shift if hormone levels change.

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    That’s also compounded by the fact that there is very little data out there, relatively speaking, given the low rates of transgender people in the population (let alone athletes). Meaning that we don’t really have a full understanding of everything.

    I’m not sure what the right answer is, but I know it’s not as black and white as either side wants it to be.


  • I always felt it was a little bit more open ended, possibly even hopeful at the end.

    Him finally moving past the 500 days of “summer” to find autumn would imply that he’s “changed with the seasons” and has learned more about himself during his relationship with summer. There are definitely allusions to him potentially sliding back, but it’s not something the movie really commits to in its ending.