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do you really enjoy dialing back and think about the longer deeper history housings men in the united states not just that question of the american dream but the bigger question of who the dream is for. look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. must obey the orders given by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the 1st law your identification we should be very careful about official intelligence to the point obesity is too great trust ever other than fear. will inflict pain on various shots and with artificial intelligence will summon the demon. the robot must protect its own existence was the only excuse for the.
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my name's dr rachel mackinnon and my sport is track cycling. the debate about trans focus is almost entirely on trans women debate is is it fair for trans women athletes to compete in women's categories in sport i have become the poster girl for. everything wrong with trans women in the world. every single story that has a thing to do with trans women part of the trans woman athletes i get mentioned
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every time. i think who won a world championship in masters franklin has been hit with the wave a backlash including death threats. you broke the world's record. in what's happening here is your guy. who was born male finished in the race and. becoming the 1st of a transgender woman to win gold in the competition. i'm a world champion in the masters track cycling sprint event as far as we know i'm the only trans woman world champion in olympic event. even though it's a masters event and at that one podium photo is what everyone focuses on unfortunately people looked at me being bigger than the girls that i was racing in said fair look how much bigger she is. people who i meet david they do not no one
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trans despite what people love to think online so people see a picture of me when i had much much shorter hair because i cut all my hair off the hair and say oh well she obviously she's trained she looks like a man. i received hundreds of thousands of hate messages at this point mostly on twitter. just the other day. so i posted that picture on instagram with so when we before we get on to get into the pedals and strap then we have to be held. and they always hold under the saddle and someone posing as you can comic be like is a checking your sack and just like. of
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course these comments get to me to some degree. i have a lot of therapy i have a therapist a psychiatrist that i seek to handle for exactly this. my name is jennifer wagner a sollie so i'm a cyclist i started writing in 2005 i definitely do not think that it's fair for athletes that were born as biological males to compete in the women's category . so that was me on the right in the podium photo. so i decided i wasn't going to disrespect the race organizer or my country on the world stage and i smiled for the podium photo. but i knew i needed to start fighting to change the rules i
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definitely don't think that that contest was fair because the winner had been born male and had gone through male puberty and had retained all the advantages that that entails if mckinnon her. and there i would have faced the 2nd place rather at a later round and possibly could have beaten or because i had more confidence later in the race. i felt that wind was not earned and so i tweeted that i was the 3rd place writer and it's definitely not fair so after that twitter exchange i did find myself the target of some online hate it was really stressful time for me and my family and we actually feared for our safety. jennifer wagner she came 3rd in the sprint event she. responded to. pretty much
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a hateful tweet on twitter saying that it's not fair for me to compete but what that in the us is that. she has beat me in 10 to 13 races we've ever raced with each other. i don't know how it's unfair when she beats me 10 out of 13 times. that i did finish in front of mccann and several times but that does not mean that mckinnon did not have an unfair advantage if you and i were running and one mile race. and you started 500 feet in front of me. i might still win but that doesn't mean you didn't have an unfair advantage and. opposition to transfer went out for you is pretty much always irrational fear which is the dictionary definition of trans phobia and transfer abuse or rational.
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i do believe that transgendered people have rights however sport is one thing that's always been based on sex and i definitely don't see a reason that we need to start changing that now because of somebodies feelings. my name is j.c. cooper. powerlifting is a strength sports is. the squat. and basically the goal is to. lift as much as much weight as you can in
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those 3 lifts. then if it's clear it means that i get identified like what my sexuality is and that it's not a fixed thing for me it could be fluid it could change from day to day again it's it's me saying i don't like your boxes i get to define what my sexuality is in mumbai gender it is at any point in time. for sporting purposes that's different because i have to actually declare it but in my personal life queerness for me. is just as much political as it is personal. my name is there i'm a housewife an amateur power lifter. and
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they are at the 200-1000 minnesota women say championships and. this is just 2 weeks after he won the minnesota women's us. a women's championship and a minnesota women's state bench press record. that is our reality we are a dime morphic species and we cannot change that x. if you ask me that jeezy's title in the u.s. p a is fair there's 2 sides to that it is technically fair j.c. rules the u.s. p.g.a. allowed him to compete with the doping females. however i do not feel that those rules are fair it is not fair for a male to take in women's championship effort in powerlifting the male advantage is
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huge bone structure muscle mass they play a role with every single lift in fact i have a female friend who's 11 time world champion in her forties and her 15 year old son is now close to breaking her records. today we're at the apartment click clinic and i'm going to get some blood panels. so what they'll do is they'll draw a few vials of blood and they'll test for testosterone.
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testosterone is something that does watts of different useful things in our bodies and people think that it plays a vital role in muscle and strength development we also know quite confidently that if you take someone's natural level and lower it they will probably get slower weaker. and now my personal bests are 215 in the bench. my squat is 3 or a little under 215 for bench and then about 364-3654 the deadlift i don't know what the best for records are for power lifters but i
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know the nico for our own. is in my weight class cheese lifting $1400.00 pounds plus and permeates i'm lifting about just under $900.00 so that's it's a significant difference and not sit down play my own don't think cheap but in the grand scheme of things i'm still pretty in the middle. i think people are looking at it very closely. as a way to eliminate people's participation. in the.
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he treated women in sports for a good reason. amount of transition and by taking a morning testosterone can magically changing into. testosterone has been used by a proxy for womanhood and it's not we're not our hormone levels you deal with pregnancy ministration menopause and these affect our everyday lives they affect every minute of our training schedules. i myself want it's like to have to live through having a crash. and even gone through a miscarriage is to have stopped me from training i had as hard as it is to get out of bed. powerlifting has empowered me through that and.
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it's devastating to me that these men say that they feel like a woman and they will not ever know what it's like to feel the loss of a baby they have to keep trading through that. very many biological reality is that they will never face if they do not know what it is to feel like a woman who can simply feel our genders. always be polite never engage with a negative a good or confrontational. don't get into any
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conversation or start answering questions just ask. if you're rich. you got 2 eyes 2 ears and one mouth. so you should be seen in here and a whole lot more than you're saying if you don't take that advice you usually going to dig yourself all. the. same the african. chinese like any other vaccine of the day that you can call them the basis of.
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the scientific basis or just about scenes are given that. we should be interfering with if it's all. there's no such thing as a. playing field we mean that competitors don't have an advantage over each other every single athlete especially at the olympic level the world championship level we all have biological advantages over each other. so people like michael phelps for example the. many time gold medal swimmer his body proportions are ridiculous he's got very long arms for his body size he
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has feet that are exceptionally big for his body size so they're effectively flippers. so he's born with all these ridiculous advantages that effectively make him a fish and we celebrate the. you know why are we making money why if you make it will some people that are like michael phelps but for some reason transfer. are treated differently activists like to argue that normal variation in the human bodies makes up for the male advantage but this is simply a red herring we can easily look in america at the high school track records and see that the best boy in high school beating the women's olympic record. i agree in sports there is no true playing field however as a society we have decided to categorize sports based on sex there's no sporting
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categories for arm length or foot size we categorized by sex for the reason that men and women are different. and i think it's a legitimate question why do we have gendered sport do you have gender categories in sport because we do treat men and women differently so because women aren't giving as good coaching opportunities or women are or shamed this particular in this country from being strong women with muscles called men the way that we play with children is different we're rougher with boys than we are with girls we let boys climb trees and break their bones and we try to protect girls these social differences. it is a matter to performance throughout our lives. males have larger or they have stronger muscles they're able to roll those muscles easier
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and hold on to that muscle mass for longer. if you look at sports across the board that are power based there's consistently a 10 percent difference between the fastest men and the fastest women if there were no separate female category in sports it would be very difficult for any woman to be a man in a lot of competition there'd be no medals prizes or celebrations for women again it's a social difference it's not biological so we don't know how much the difference between men and women is social and how much is biological. you sort of. also have to ask you to show us what your transition. medically. there is
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a social fascination with for example our genitals so it strikes us as people as a little weird that people want to know what generals we have when they have no intention of sleeping with us for example so. it's irrelevant to my day to day life for example what genitals i how so it should be relevant to how society treats us as well. as. they issue of males competing in female sports it carries off of the field and it goes into the bathroom in locker rooms it's a very private space for with mating and when we look at self reported studies of males who identify as transgender the vast majority. jordi over 90 percent of them do not have surgery they are intact males. 'd but
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they should through the surgery. i don't think i don't think i have to answer that . there are people in our society that don't want trans people in bathrooms and they don't want to transfer people who participate at all and something like as small as you know having access to. it is enough for some people to get aggressive. they're worried that trance woman. commit some sort of crime or sexual assaults against this woman and we know that. unfounded fear. doesn't. transfer women are far far more likely to be the victims of assaults you know when it's bathroom and insists women are at the hands of a transient. it's not that they feel like all transgender people are a threat but by allowing them into our bathrooms in locker rooms we're training
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young girls to feel comfortable with male bodies in their private spaces this isn't right. calculated how many olympians there have been since the 2003 policy so that goes through the 2004 olympics in athens through the 2018 olympics in south korea and there have been over $54000.00 olympians in that time 0 turns off we have even qualified. it doesn't matter how tiny a proportion the transgender athletes are just ask the women who they're beating and whose records they're taking the. 3rd the the i'm going to i'm from canada yeah i was resigning and we can choose
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this also from canada but lives here in the united states. or they. can have transgender athletes i think it's great that she's out here racing and that we're able to compete against her. i don't think that it was her being transgender having an unfair advantage that she beat me in the race today i think it was a bit of an experience from my part and i thought to grow as a writer and get faster as well so. while we are only seeing a small percentage of males who identify as transgender entering the women's competitions currently it has increased dramatically and in my eyes one woman losing
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a title is too many when these rules were changed there was not enough time for the athletes to qualify with this new rule and the 2016 olympics that's why we haven't seen men on the women's podium yet it's coming in tokyo. rose in utah it's me and i think one of our the day. here has a balls to do it. if it's a good mental space or. it's a good place for me to. manage some of. what society throws at you i put on girls sports team since i was 8 years old
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sports mean a lot to me i've developed confidence and belief in myself and i've learned the value of hard work and dedication sports have basically saved my life they have helped me through some of the most difficult times and i can imagine my life without powerlifting now sport played a massive central role in societies and many of our lives so to exclude a group of people for who they are from something so socially important is fundamentally unfair trans women are not men we're not men in dresses i worked so hard day after day year after year doing everything i can optimize my performance and i know that i can never compare to somebody that's going through male puberty. it's like banging your head against the wall do they really think this is fair. i
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just don't believe in. i believe the solution to males competing in female sports. or have them compete in the male category or an open category for them to compete and or for anyone who'd like to compete in it as far as having a separate league or separate entity for trans people you know i don't agree with that it's basically saying that no you are not a woman i think that the idea of having an other category is really based on fear fear trans people who maybe succeed. because nobody has issues with trans people in sports and told someone when it's transgender women are males if we keep
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allowing males to compete in sports they will no longer have female sports to compete in or how men's sports. i think increasingly people are willing to say that trans women are women for sport and i don't think that makes much sense i don't think you can say that we are real women that we are really fully included and we have all the same rights except for sport the practice of sport is a human right so to exclude trans women from sport is to violate a human right. 5. rather stand here from us and. move on what are some.
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