A bit of good news for a change.

I’d like to read/quote the ruling but it won’t open; maybe later. Meanwhile Jon Pike enlightens:

There’s a particular feature of this that I want to bring out. Blair Hamilton is an academic sports scientist who publishers in this area: Hamilton researches, in particular, the effects of T-reduction and cross sex hormones on performance. This research project has an enormous blind spot, because it focuses on performance metrics and not body metrics. Body metrics – like height – are set by sex, and are not affected by T-reduction. Because BH is biologically male, BH has a huge, male-generated height advantage. And BH plays in goal, where body metrics like height and reach play a very big part. It serves the political interests of Hamilton’s research to switch the emphasis from (eg) muscle strength, where there is a small reduction, and away from height where there is no change, and no diminution of male advantage.

We can see, from the submission to IPSO how Hamilton thinks about this. I am struck by the term ‘mere anatomy’. YES. It is ‘mere anatomy’ that means that Hamilton is much taller than almost all women goal keepers. It is ‘mere anatomy’ that will drive some women goalkeepers out of the game. Because it is ‘mere anatomy’ – the fact that there are two types of human body – that justifies female sport.

‘Mere anatomy’ is absolutely fundamental to this argument.

And Hamilton’s “personal journey as a transgender woman” is – how to put it? – neither here nor there.

Indeed. It’s also grotesquely self-involved to think it is either here or there. All this “mai journey” shit canceling women’s rights and interests and needs is so childish as well as outrageous. It needs to go away!