Sex, Gender, and Athletics

The controversy about the Khelif-Carini fight is, I believe, a terribly missed opportunity for learning something about not just gender and sexuality but about how human practice and thought fits the world. Or at least, thatā€™s my conclusion after reading and thinking a lot about it yesterday and writing down some of my thoughts today. Given that I think I have learned something from some of that thinking, Ā I want to share it here. Ā Four preliminary points First, some of what I Iearnedā€”about the biology of sex differencesā€“comes from a post by the biologist Rebecca R Helm. You should read it. I donā€™t know much more about those issues so some of what I say can be a misinterpretation of what she wrote. Second, this post is not about the Khelif-Carini case. At the end of it I make some suggestions about general rules for determining when women with anā€¦ Continue reading