(September 6, 2025 at 12:33 am)Belacqua Wrote: I mean, when a trans woman says she's trans, that means she should be allowed to participate in women's sports. I hadn't heard before that a trans woman would have to prove certain chemical or hormonal levels in order to qualify.
An individual who still had exactly the same physiology as she did the day before she came out as trans is, assuredly, trans, is she not? Or is there a sliding scale on some kind of hormonal measurement?
It depends on the rules of the given sport.
But it also does not mean that the measures required to participate in some sport are applicable in everyday life. For example, just because someone is a heavy category in boxing does not mean they should be referred to as a fat person outside of the ring.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
