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It obviously isn't. If I had said "other functional disabilities", I'd be saying that, but I am not. Stop looking for reasons to be offended, please. Nope. Is being mendacious so easily come to you? I'd already cited at least one Olympic sport where trans athletes aren't at all an issue. But who here takes issue with a Trans Olympics for those sports where it is in fact an issue? I wouldn't.

To be fair though at least one peasant also seems to think Aerys was a great guy because the roads were safe.

It's not so much implying that trans is a disability, but, instead, he's just saying that trans athletes should get their own Special Olympics because they have no legitimate place in the actual Olympics.

The whole point of twitter was enjoying anonymous weirdos get into slap fights with respected journalists, pundits, and politicians, the intelligentsia. When most of the intelligentsia left there was no reason to pay attention.

I know it's not your intention to imply being trans is a disability, but this is still an extremely unfortunate comparison.

IMHO, "per se" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. And the implied logic goes that trans women don't get to compete in women's sports because they aren't actually women.

Its scummy as hell but its not just revenge, its a calculated ambush spurred by both wanting revenge and walders cold cowardly reassasment of robbs chances to win , its a massacre to end the war utterly and be tied deeply into the winning regime

Being born trans is a quirk of genetics/epigenetics much like many other things. It carries with it a hell of a cost for your life, and we get the added bonus of being told any advantage we happen to wrangle from that is unfair and makes us cheaters. The only thing that says the remnant advantages in sport that trans women may retain are unfair is a social construct. Unless the advantage is so extreme that there's not actually a contest, and no amount of studies are going to prove that because its patently not the reality of the handful of trans women that still want to fucking try despite what the world thinks of us. --- I'm so glad I wasted so much fucking time today on a post that didn't only talk about whether transition removes all advantage or not just for everyone to ignore it.

Its not because they are trans per se that they are being excluded, and I think you know that.

Right. And I don't get to play in little league baseball because I am an adult. Some things in sports are categorized because it makes sense, and just because we categorize according to some traits--like sex or age--doesn't mean we have to categorize according to every imaginable one.

Hmmm well the ironborn have slaves. The finest armour is supposedly made in essos and most of the sellsword companies men will be essosi born and bred.Numbers would be interesting Securiry wise you sre right but wallwise we dont hesr much of the huge essosi wall and its 5 forts to make a comparsion!

Why narrow majorities and House gridlock are here to stay in 2024:

It's true that many cis athletes who aren't good enough don't get to make it to the olympics/top level sports. However, IMHO, the "such is life" comment seems to be a snub that precludes trans women from competing in gender-appropriate athletics not on the basis of being good enough but simply because they are trans. There is a not so subtle implication that they are not real women or that they threaten to take the spots in these top levels from real women.

One could: I think I was pretty clear that this is not directed at any one view, but the discussion in general. I have strong feelings about these issues because I have trans friends, work with young trans adults, and have strong views about the rights of young adults in general to control their own lives and take their own decisions. At the same time, I grew up in and live in the same society as everyone else: until I was an adult, trans folks were the butt of playground jokes and nothing else, gender roles were firmly defined and straying from them got mockery at best and made you a target for physical bullying more often than not, and not conforming to your gender assigned at birth was portrayed as inextricably linked to sexual perversion. These were prejudices literally beaten into me at times, and I've had to work to counter them - they still exist in me, at some level. If that's not the culture you grew up in, then I'm glad. A lot of the young adults I work with grew up questioning that culture, and I'm happy for them. But those people generally lack the same genetic advantages that are being considered unfair when they arise as a result of being trans women.

Indeed. The very nature of competitive sports creates a hierarchy.

Very sound and sensible policies from Binface, but really did he have to spoil it with fantasy nonsense like voter ID policy? Making it easier for eligible people to vote has never done anyone any good.

CIS Athletes that aren't good enough don't get to make it to the olympics/top level sport, I don't follow this argument.

So why do you only apply that here to trans athletes and not cis athletes who may not be good enough? Is that also not life? Or does your feigned concern for "fairness" not apply to trans athletes? There seems to be an underlying implication here and your earlier comments that trans women aren't real women or that trans women are stealing these more limited financial opportunities in sports from "real women." And when you are proposing that they be put in "separate but equal" divisions outside of cis sports, then it's hard not to get that impression.

Many people are born who simply cannot compete in a sport they might like to compete in. Such is life. As trans people become a larger part of the population, there's no great reason there can't be sports divisions for them specifically, not unlike how we see for various functional disabilities at the Paralympics. Or alternatively we get good enough at the science of sport that we can handicap accurately and create new divisions that mix the sexes but remain fair to participants.

I thought they handled Toranaga's internal dialogue at the end of the book quite well. Very satisfying adaptation.

I have watched a bit of both. Stylistically, Slot seems to be more suited to the makeup of Liverpool's squad than Amorim which, in theory, would ensure a smoother transition.

This was a sick bit of skill up until he decided to shoot near post (and miss goal) from a terrible angle vs shooting far post. If he shot it across, he scores. I do wonder if he is capable of getting better at finishing. It's one of those things that requires speed of thought, technique, instinct, slow heart rate... I don't know. We've seen a number of players who are really good never become prolific because they just can't keep their calm in front of the goal and I doubt it's for lack of training. On the Arsenal front, Partey really does make this team a lot quicker and more fluid. His desire to take one or two touches and immediately push the ball forward is a welcome change and allows Odegaard to receive the ball in more space and more dangerous positions. I can't believe yesterday was the first time we started a Rice, Partey, Odegaard midfield since Community Shield. I really hope they sign a similar profile to Partey this summer so they can finally let him go. The team just looks significantly more balanced with him in the side. Jorginho was able to replicate that a few games but he hasn't been as consistent with speed of release as Partey is. I suspect if we played Partey to start in the 2nd game against Bayern, we would have had a better shot.

Hopefully an admission or more forthright discussion that it's transphobia so we don't have to have proxy wars that it's actually about other issues. And it leaves trans athletes out of options if they want to do the same. So much for fairness. So what pragmatic solutions do you propose that permits the competition of trans professional/amateur athletes? Treating trans women like men and having them compete in men's sports and having trans men compete in women's sports perhaps? Or a complete non-competition clause for all trans and gender non-conforming individuals?

Wolves have had to put out a statement saying it's not any of their players involved because the internet detectives decided it must be Wolves players which has resulted in some of their players being harassed.

@Castellan I guess I have a strong hunch that lineages are about to become a major issue in Winds. We see multiple families with no clear heir, and with apoarent connections farther back to other regions. Everyone agrees of course that the Freys are all about to murder each or find other ways to climb. The Vale has a more civil approach but a great deal is going on behind the scenes. Meanwhile the North mostly believes Bran and Rickon are dead and so some of the moves the families there are making are related to who they think is rightfully next in line. Really every region has a bit of this going on. So the names are clues to where the story is going in this sense.