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deema78 has been banned as a sockpuppet of deema

What’s the evidence that she has an advantage? It’s not automatically the case. https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/bjsports/39/10/695.full.pdf “Individuals with this condition have a 46XY genotype (the typical male chromosomal make up), but fail to develop male sex characteristics because their cells cannot respond to the circulating male hormone (testosterone) in their bodies. Although the presence of the Y chromosome makes these individuals genetically male, they are phenotypically female—that is, they have a female morphotype and physiology—and they are usually raised socially as females. The presence of the Y chromosome (and more importantly, circulating testosterone) confers no physical advantage on them.”

The governing body uses gender as the determining factor for which group one should be in, not sex. Her gender is female. According to the IAAF’s rules, she’s a woman, competing in women’s races. https://theconversation.com/ten-ethical-flaws-in-the-caster-semenya-decision-on-intersex-in-sport-116448 (sports used to use anatomical determination, which is presumably what the doctor used to assign her female at birth)

“Semenya, who has always been legally identified as female” (from the provided link; emphasis added) She isn’t transgender - as you note, she is intersex - but this is an example of the issue of only having two categories being part of the problem, why there is difficulty in classifying people, and underscores the issue of whether we are discussing sex or gender.

The Thorium clock is an interesting challenge from an academic point of view but it’s not relevant to the claims here (and is unlikely to result in a clock that’s much better than optical clocks)

That’s certainly a major issue. I don’t see where real events were cited.

I’m pretty sure nobody has plummeted to their death from trans people competing in athletics, and since they have been, there should be existing evidence.

I didn’t ask about potential outliers. I am asking, yet again, for evidence that should already exist.

And, I would add, where are these outliers?

No, I don’t. I doubt one exists.

I think it’s the use of K-G instead of Schrödinger

The whole relativistic mass explanation is a pop-sci retelling of the physics; the solutions to the equations are in terms of the energy, for which you get a correction in the relativistic case (and this is how the journal article I once looked up treated it). It’s in the pop-sci retelling they talk about relativistic mass, or take the kinetic energy and get a velocity.

So I guess it’s the middle-school biology answer.

How would that be proof? And (as I asked previously) what does make one a woman? Do you have a comprehensive set of criteria? Something that’s more accurate and precise than middle-school biology.

! Moderator Note Similar topics merged You seem to contradict yourself here. Does it explain things, or not? Does math explain what the area of a circle or rectangle is? Yes, I think it does. And I second iNow’s request to clarify what you mean by real. Math certainly exists. All those classes, books and chalk dust I experienced were not illusions.

Also some that require a certain post count. edit to add: posts here and a few other places, like the Lounge, don’t contribute to the post count total

It’s even more than that, because I don’t think anyone has shown that this is simply a case of “identifying as” in the same way as someone might identify as a cat-lover. There are studies that show genetic factors for gender incongruence, which has to enter into an evidence-based discussion, rather than just assertion and poor definitions. (though perhaps being a cat-lover is the result of some genetic influence, too)

h is Planck’s constant It is very definitely momentum. You can use light to accelerate atoms from the recoil of an absorption and subsequent emission of photons. Using that to cool atoms down won the 1997 Nobel prize.

The momentum is E/c, meaning the force is P/c (P being the power). Twice that if reflected, as exchemist notes. Randall Monroe did a calculation (which I confirmed) that levitating a 1 kg squirrel on a perfectly reflecting mirror requires about a “Back to the Future”-esque 1.21 GW. So not a big effect for light with a more pedestrian power level. Solar sails have to be big for any reasonable payload It does affect the earth by a tiny amount. Somewhat more dramatically, it can have an effect on small satellites, including causing non-uniformly-shaped ones (or ones with a non-uniform albedo) to tumble, after enough time. It contributes to the YORP effect. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/YORP_effect#:~:text=The Yarkovsky–O'Keefe–,of its own thermal radiation.

! Moderator Note I think the larger point is that you don’t seem to be addressing the issues that are raised, and there’s a decided lack of rigor.

I’ll take that as a “no” As usual.

What does make one a woman? Is it genetics? Is it genitalia? Is there a definition that covers everyone? I don’t suppose you have evidence to back this up.

I think you said all but a handful of trans athletes choose not to compete at an elite level, and I want to know where they went. Since it’s a choice, they must have the ability to do so. They must have done so at some point. Winning, if they are to compete at an elite level. OK, where are they? And they’d be winning championships, if they are going to be competing at a world elite level. If they can’t win at the college level, how can they be be competing against the champions of the NCAA from that and earlier years, and the elite competitors from other countries? And there are many such athletes, but they aren’t trans. There are athletes who have complained about the damage that drugs they are allowed to (and expected to) take do to them. Shaquille O’Neal has been quite open about taking anti-inflammatory drugs and painkillers in order to play basketball. It’s common among gridiron football players (Toradol, for one). Aaron Rodgers admitted to taking ayahuasca, a schedule 1 drug. Not prohibited by the NFL. It seems that protecting the players happens when not doing so impacts the bottom line. The NFL covered up concussion issues for years until it was too obvious that it was an issue. They don’t want PEDs because of the notion that it’s cheating, and that’s an image problem.

Just because they used Tor doesn’t make them a bot. People use VPNs or dynamically-assigned IP addresses. I’ve seen instances of spammers using the exact same IP address as were previously used by long-time members. How do you determine that it’s a bot?

Time is not something that interacts.