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, thatās 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 Iearnedāabout the biology of sex differencesācomes from a post by the biologist Rebecca R Helm. You should read it. I donāt 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