It seems that a nonbinary category can be the beginning of a solution. It would be nice to segregate all trans/non-binary/doped up athletes in their own category and leave the men and particularly the woman alone and in peace to legitimately race against only their own kind.
Colin, thanks for inclusion of this post by Sarah. I am an 81 year old middle of the pack runner who has completed the NYC marathon 44 times ( confirmation is on their website) . While I am obviously not directly impacted by this acceptance of the major running organizations and sponsors of this obeisance to woke ideology, the unfairness of and corruption of the sport troubles me deeply. It is a combination of cowardice,wokeness and particularly sheer lunacy. I am certain that the huge majority of runners feel the same way , Hopefully, an effort will be coordinated. by a group of runners to pressure the organizations to rethink this ridiculous on so many levels policy. I will gladly join hat effort . Thank your for you very well researched post.
Jul 8, 2023·edited Jul 8, 2023Liked by Colin Wright
Isn't this reminiscent in many ways of the 1976 Montréal Summer Olympics doping scandal in which East German women athletes (most notably, swimmers) had been the unwitting victims of a systematic government-sponsored regime of anabolic steroid administration? This was universally considered as unfair at the time... Https://everythingisbiology.substack.com/p/steroids-gender-and-fair-play ....There is an eerie comparison between the two, I think. It is striking how our values and interpretations of both biology and athletics have changed so dramatically. As I've suggested (and so many others have, too), it would be so much simpler (and make more sense) to establish male, female, and open competitive categories. Under that rubric, everyone gets to compete, knows against whom they're competing, and competition is fair. Inclusion and fair play are not necessarily incompatible. Thank you for very interesting essay. Sincerely, Frederick
> By offering a nonbinary category, race organizations are relinquishing any grasp on reality, and must accept whatever identity the entrant tells them.
> By swallowing gender ideology, USADA has divorced itself from reality to an extent that it cannot effectively perform its primary function of ensuring fair play.
Sorry, for probably the first time I find myself in stark disagreement with RLS. It seems to me what the USADA has done is quarantine the trannies in their own category, thus insuring that real men and women are indeed protected from the nonsense. Who cares what rules are used in the reality-denying category? Let them take whatever drugs they want, it should be up to the inmates to run that asylum, no? Are they 'swallowing gender ideology' or merely parking it in a safe place where normal people can ignore it? Besides, think of the fun watching them make their own rules. I'd predict a very quick implosion.
This situation is no more and no less outrageous and disgusting than any other aspect of "transgenderism."
Who's pulling the strings to spread this foul bowel movement through the sports world? Is it Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock ($9 Trillion and counting), whose ESG scoring system and CEI rating system are used to determine whether or not BlackRock invests in a company based on how enthusiastically that company sucks up to "transgenderism." Has Larry boy threatened to turn off the money spigot unless the USADA makes room for "Tranny?"
The best way to stop the USADA is to speak out and talk to our friends and family about the absurdity and harm of "transgenderism" in sports and in every other part of life. The "transgender" movement is a totalitarian movement. Like all other totalitarian movements before it, "transgenderism" will be defeated as soon as the people rise up and say, "No!"
I think Ray and Miguelitro have a good idea. If we could get a third category which was the place for all trangender folks in general (trans women, trans men, nonbinary), that would be a solution.
I'd actually be quite interested in how that shook out over time. Imagine a category combining biological males and biological females, with some of the biological females allowed to dope with testosterone (only if they identify as nonbinary). Would the undoped males, or the doped females, wind up more commonly at the top? Would they all feel fine about that or would internal divisions evolve?
Or let them all dope, that would be fine with me too.
Meanwhile the male and female categories would be only for undoped "cis" athletes. Win/win.
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It wasn't mentioned here, but at least in some races with monetary prizes, the non-binary runners have demanded equal payouts for their category. So we should be prepared for this in advance. Perhaps the monetary prizes should be tied to the number of fee paying participants in each category.
But honestly, I'd be fine with equal payouts (for those races with payouts), if it just got the trans folks their own league where they can make up their own rules, and allow the rest of sports to continue in a saner way.
If this entered the professional sports area, I am imagining that the networks willing to sponsor in return for access might be less sports channels, and more reality TV channels - providing viewers with a (reality tv type simulacrum of a) ringside seat at the ensuing dramas as the participants try to out-woke each other for advantage, throwing tantrums, playing the bigger victim, and generally engage in competitives reframing. Maybe do a bit of sports on the side. But maybe I'm too cynical. If they managed to do something positive, I'd be happy for them; I like a win/win with their having their own space separate from the rest of athletics.
That’s true now, Chris. And it’s hard to predict the future, but my sense is that the activists bit off more than most people can chew and we will see blowback even in liberal areas like LA where I am from.
Great work! Here's a quick view into the woo that virtue signaling, perhaps by a philandering (now, finally) King, will promote through his Crown Prosecution Service. (women being accused of domestic violence for trying to retain the finances to feed the children, "after he comes out")
I recently self published a book which you might like, "Supplement Your Stride: The Complete Runners Supplements Book", available on Amazon, very reasonably priced. As a runner myself, I found the information out there contradictory, biased and overwhelming, so did my own research on the science and hard evidence and studies behind all the major supplements.
Thanks, Sarah. It is shocking the extent to which so many organizations have genuflected before the altar of transgender ideology. A woman is a woman and a man is a man. Young people are getting failed in class and expelled from school for so stating. It is abominable. The mainstream does not want to put these ideas up for a vote because they would be defeated in definitive ways. Up is down and down is up. Keep up the good work.
Ahh, again gender. Ghosts, goblins, gremlins and genders - unreal fictions. Making decisions with irrational inputs always arrives at risible failure. There is nothing preventing a man from changing his birth sex to female and then in a bullshit backflip claiming transgender male status requiring testosterone to compete as a... man. It’s not real folks, it’s a fiction, an opinion, a racket. Whenever someone must say birth sex or biological sex to clarify reality, you’ve just seen another tacit acknowledgement that gender doesn’t exist. When you acknowledge that fact to yourself its shockingly clear how sad the contortions otherwise intelligent people make to try to keep the idea afloat.
It seems that a nonbinary category can be the beginning of a solution. It would be nice to segregate all trans/non-binary/doped up athletes in their own category and leave the men and particularly the woman alone and in peace to legitimately race against only their own kind.
Colin, thanks for inclusion of this post by Sarah. I am an 81 year old middle of the pack runner who has completed the NYC marathon 44 times ( confirmation is on their website) . While I am obviously not directly impacted by this acceptance of the major running organizations and sponsors of this obeisance to woke ideology, the unfairness of and corruption of the sport troubles me deeply. It is a combination of cowardice,wokeness and particularly sheer lunacy. I am certain that the huge majority of runners feel the same way , Hopefully, an effort will be coordinated. by a group of runners to pressure the organizations to rethink this ridiculous on so many levels policy. I will gladly join hat effort . Thank your for you very well researched post.
Isn't this reminiscent in many ways of the 1976 Montréal Summer Olympics doping scandal in which East German women athletes (most notably, swimmers) had been the unwitting victims of a systematic government-sponsored regime of anabolic steroid administration? This was universally considered as unfair at the time... Https://everythingisbiology.substack.com/p/steroids-gender-and-fair-play ....There is an eerie comparison between the two, I think. It is striking how our values and interpretations of both biology and athletics have changed so dramatically. As I've suggested (and so many others have, too), it would be so much simpler (and make more sense) to establish male, female, and open competitive categories. Under that rubric, everyone gets to compete, knows against whom they're competing, and competition is fair. Inclusion and fair play are not necessarily incompatible. Thank you for very interesting essay. Sincerely, Frederick
> By offering a nonbinary category, race organizations are relinquishing any grasp on reality, and must accept whatever identity the entrant tells them.
> By swallowing gender ideology, USADA has divorced itself from reality to an extent that it cannot effectively perform its primary function of ensuring fair play.
Sorry, for probably the first time I find myself in stark disagreement with RLS. It seems to me what the USADA has done is quarantine the trannies in their own category, thus insuring that real men and women are indeed protected from the nonsense. Who cares what rules are used in the reality-denying category? Let them take whatever drugs they want, it should be up to the inmates to run that asylum, no? Are they 'swallowing gender ideology' or merely parking it in a safe place where normal people can ignore it? Besides, think of the fun watching them make their own rules. I'd predict a very quick implosion.
This situation is no more and no less outrageous and disgusting than any other aspect of "transgenderism."
Who's pulling the strings to spread this foul bowel movement through the sports world? Is it Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock ($9 Trillion and counting), whose ESG scoring system and CEI rating system are used to determine whether or not BlackRock invests in a company based on how enthusiastically that company sucks up to "transgenderism." Has Larry boy threatened to turn off the money spigot unless the USADA makes room for "Tranny?"
The best way to stop the USADA is to speak out and talk to our friends and family about the absurdity and harm of "transgenderism" in sports and in every other part of life. The "transgender" movement is a totalitarian movement. Like all other totalitarian movements before it, "transgenderism" will be defeated as soon as the people rise up and say, "No!"
I think Ray and Miguelitro have a good idea. If we could get a third category which was the place for all trangender folks in general (trans women, trans men, nonbinary), that would be a solution.
I'd actually be quite interested in how that shook out over time. Imagine a category combining biological males and biological females, with some of the biological females allowed to dope with testosterone (only if they identify as nonbinary). Would the undoped males, or the doped females, wind up more commonly at the top? Would they all feel fine about that or would internal divisions evolve?
Or let them all dope, that would be fine with me too.
Meanwhile the male and female categories would be only for undoped "cis" athletes. Win/win.
----
It wasn't mentioned here, but at least in some races with monetary prizes, the non-binary runners have demanded equal payouts for their category. So we should be prepared for this in advance. Perhaps the monetary prizes should be tied to the number of fee paying participants in each category.
But honestly, I'd be fine with equal payouts (for those races with payouts), if it just got the trans folks their own league where they can make up their own rules, and allow the rest of sports to continue in a saner way.
If this entered the professional sports area, I am imagining that the networks willing to sponsor in return for access might be less sports channels, and more reality TV channels - providing viewers with a (reality tv type simulacrum of a) ringside seat at the ensuing dramas as the participants try to out-woke each other for advantage, throwing tantrums, playing the bigger victim, and generally engage in competitives reframing. Maybe do a bit of sports on the side. But maybe I'm too cynical. If they managed to do something positive, I'd be happy for them; I like a win/win with their having their own space separate from the rest of athletics.
That’s true now, Chris. And it’s hard to predict the future, but my sense is that the activists bit off more than most people can chew and we will see blowback even in liberal areas like LA where I am from.
Great work! Here's a quick view into the woo that virtue signaling, perhaps by a philandering (now, finally) King, will promote through his Crown Prosecution Service. (women being accused of domestic violence for trying to retain the finances to feed the children, "after he comes out")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgI0NJMnTbg&t=2s
I recently self published a book which you might like, "Supplement Your Stride: The Complete Runners Supplements Book", available on Amazon, very reasonably priced. As a runner myself, I found the information out there contradictory, biased and overwhelming, so did my own research on the science and hard evidence and studies behind all the major supplements.
https://booksbyajcameron.substack.com/p/runners-supplements-book
Thanks, Sarah. It is shocking the extent to which so many organizations have genuflected before the altar of transgender ideology. A woman is a woman and a man is a man. Young people are getting failed in class and expelled from school for so stating. It is abominable. The mainstream does not want to put these ideas up for a vote because they would be defeated in definitive ways. Up is down and down is up. Keep up the good work.
Ahh, again gender. Ghosts, goblins, gremlins and genders - unreal fictions. Making decisions with irrational inputs always arrives at risible failure. There is nothing preventing a man from changing his birth sex to female and then in a bullshit backflip claiming transgender male status requiring testosterone to compete as a... man. It’s not real folks, it’s a fiction, an opinion, a racket. Whenever someone must say birth sex or biological sex to clarify reality, you’ve just seen another tacit acknowledgement that gender doesn’t exist. When you acknowledge that fact to yourself its shockingly clear how sad the contortions otherwise intelligent people make to try to keep the idea afloat.