StringJunky

We only need to look at people absorbing and applying the hypothetical-at-the-time approaches promoted in 'Das Kapital' at a revolutionary rate to see that fully-constructed social theories can have disastrous social consequences.

It's looking like you are going into panic-mode, and quickly compiling a litany of obstacles. It doesn't matter if we here don't have all the answers now... Rome wasn't built in a day. If it takes decades for the stakeholders and regulators to find equitable solutions, that's ok. We only have to look at the timeline of homosexuality in the UK, since its eventual absorption into the UK's social fabric after 1967, to see the timescales probably involved. Society and nature is constantly in flux. It's only when we look over several decades of societal development do we see more distinct periods of our behavioural evolution, and thus large-scale changes of attitude emerging from each era. I don't think responsible social adjustments are amenable to remote, hypothetical modelling. It needs to be small, empirical steps, in the field, with concomitant assessment.

This is a work in progress, and those questions can be addressed empirically, as and when they become an issue in the course of trying things out.

"It is so strong, it can pull on light as well as matter". This is not a level of educating where you would be mentioning extreme curvature as the proper reason.

He's asking about a particular word usage, not the subject itself.

In this instance, it means including phenomena that a layman would not normally consider part of it. It's a kind of rhetorical interjection intended to surprise the layman reader. "Ooh...did you know that it includes light as well?"

My interpretation: "After review, for the purposes of this sport, you are assigned <insert gender>". That does sound practicable.

Fry's realization and ensuing internal cognitive resistance illustrates that these states of the human condition are not arbitrary choices.

Mine are: Aljazeera, BBC, Reuters, The Intercept, Kyiv Post, Institute for the Study of War, Moscow Times, UK Defence Journal, Associated Press and Politico. I like to try and get varied perspectives as seen from different countries on similar subjects that interest me. I have noted that AP and ISoW are cited by the others listed quite a lot.

Identity and feelings are often conflated/interchanged as synonymous, but feelings are conditional on the stability of ones self-identity. Self-identity should be consistent over long periods for a person to function productively in the social and personal spheres. Feelings can change without affecting ones sense of core identity, if they are reasonably transient, but absence of a stable, personal identity creates a continuous state of unstable feelings, with the potential for pathological consequences. I would be interested to know how much of a trans' mental state is endogenous vs reactive, due to a persistent, negative social reception.

Hands and hearts can be photographed and shared, GI cannot as it isn't a 'thing'. It's a process or behaviour. I doubt one can tie it down to one component of the body.

Or a quark in the universe. On second thoughts, virtual particle, as you are a transient manifestation.

Right. It turns one of the Canadian players in the women's World Cup is a trans, declaring as non-binary; Quinn. Not much fuss there. Watching some of the games, it did strike me that some of the women are quite androgynous, so Quinn doesn't stand out so much to elicit the negative comments trans receive in other sports.

I do think Lia Thomas was being unrealistic, particularly when this subject is very much in flux in elite sports.. They transferred a clear advantage in their physical size when they transitioned. Transitioning doesn't reduce the stroke length that men that tall have.

One should always be working in the same 'units' to avoid screwing up.

So was homosexuality. Look where that is now. Any diagnostic manual on mental health can actually just reflect contemporary attitudes of the day and may simply be socially unacceptable, rather than genuinely pathological to the individual or people around them..

Mismatched gender identification is a dysphoria that can have pathological effects on the individual and their life if not addressed.

Of course, the biological systems don't change in themselves, but when you add or subtract categories, more or less things are observable, therefore, the observed, measured, system changes. There is a new reality because we've had to alter the classifications to accommodate the new data.

Is historicity important and should it never be changed? You seem to use that word a lot, as though it's immutable, like the now-antique US Constitution. People that are yet to be born won't care if something isn't useful to them anymore, or gets commandeered for other purposes. What happened to the original meaning of 'gay' and the associations regarding rainbows. They were just rainbows. That small subset of individuals will require categorizing and there will have to be a trinary, quaternary, whatever number of sets to include them, if they can't belong to the the binary set. Either way the binary system becomes a figment of history.

That's entirely up to him, society will just keep evolving, regardless. Newly emerging citizens will absorb and embody any new definitions without the baggage of soon-to-be archaic binary concepts.

Cheers for clarifying that. The problem at hand here is the use of 'normal' and the arbitrary application of limits... in my view. I would say older people become more intractable in their views. Some thing, as I enter my seventh decade, I'm self-aware of. Some subjects, like my taste in 70's blues/rock are intractable, but it doesn't matter in the wide scheme of things. Things like this subject will see one in the flow, following progress, or off it as an irrelevance. One becomes a static, living example of a certain period in time, just as my great grandad was an example of the Victorian age, and his kids Edwardian and Georgian. My grandad thought that fighting the second world war was a waste of time, with the way that English society had deteriorated since then. He died in 2005. And so it goes on.

I don't know. CharonY might.

These are all assumptions/obstacles you created in your head with no facts to support. Quite simply, you are expressing personal anxieties and projecting them onto female athletes.

Good examples, zap.

You are just making stuff up.