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We got the joke - but are you sure you got Ford?
Right? Not sure I trust Ford long term, even though he's saying a lot of the right things right now.
It does seem to be the rare case where Ford and Chow are aligned, but she's actually taking action https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-tariff-response-plan-1.7494034
Wow, I can't believe how common this is becoming. There was an article about this recently, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/gold-card-residence-abroad/682103/ (archive https://archive.is/q3iCF )
Out of curiosity (and on the off-chance that it helps out a fellow USian) how are you getting out? What's the path you've picked, if you've gotten that far, or what options are you considering?
This is a recurring pattern though. When that idiot acts, it's the red states who supported him that get hurt the most.
Examples: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/04/trump-doge-federal-layoffs-national-parks https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/pain-hits-home-republicans-balk-trumps-spending-cuts-tariffs-rcna191832
This is a very bad sign.. this guy is a US citizen, right? If even he feels the need to flee, from the seclusion of the ivory tower ...
don’t actually consider trans women to be women
So my comment about new categories should be understood to be within the context of "trans women are women, full stop." We have different weight classes for men in wrestling, but no one would question that the featherweight champion is a man, or that the heavyweight champion is a man, even though a heavyweight would clearly defeat a featherweight every time if they were to compete against each other.
This is why there is so much acrimony on our side. It appears that even for our allies, it’s fine for us to compete, so long as we don’t win.
That definitely seems unfair and I don't ascribe to this. There's generally nothing wrong with a trans women winning a sports competition when competing against other women (who may also be cis or trans).
The whole argument from the other side centers on the assumption that men obviously are better than women at sports just because, and thus it's obviously unfair that ...
Except that cis women have beaten cis men in sports before, see https://www.elle.com/culture/g30119/female-athletes-who-won-against-men/
In some sports women generally do better than men, see https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240731-the-sports-where-women-outperform-men
So the central premise that the other side tries to bring is faulty to begin with.
Also, you can view the livestream of the police update at https://www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/03/26/live-soon-winnipeg-police-update-on-buffalo-woman-an-unknown-victim-of-killer-jeremy-skibicki/
As of 2:05pm ET the stream is open but they haven't started yet, they're running a few minutes late.
The issue here is that people have no problem admitting that tall individuals have an advantage over shorter ones in basketball - but when someone points out that trans women may have an advantage over biological women in terms of strength and speed,
Key word that's often missing: "may"
The NPR article that you used as a source is pretty clear on this, that there's a group of trans women for which this (stronger and faster than cis women) is not true.
[some] people suddenly come out of the woodwork, calling it a lie or transphobia.
FTFY.
The issue here is that ....
Blanket bans are rarely the optimal solution
Actually, I suspect the issue here is that other folks - right-wing and MAGA in particular - take the a statement similar to yours, and run away with it to justify a blanket ban.
In other words, your original statement,
This isn’t about not wanting trans people in the sports and you know it.
Well, I don't know it. Perhaps the folks on the World Olympics have loftier ideals - I sure hope that's the case.
But there are folks that don't want trans people to be able to use washrooms. (See https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/no-link-between-trans-inclusive-policies-bathroom-safety-study-finds-n911106 which references the belief, while pointing out that science doesn't provide support.)
Hence some hypervigilance to keep those folks from taking over the conversation.
If instead they acknowledged the advantage but still argued for inclusion, then at least we’d be agreeing on the facts - and the discussion could focus on how to level the playing field.
True - the discussion really should be focus on inclusion, and of course a level playing field should only further the cause.
From the article:
Thanks for the hat tip.
which will likely result in pennies on the dollar.
Understand that this is the law right now. But laws can be changed. This absolutely should not be legal. These hardworking folks should not have to settle for "pennies on the dollar" when mgmt can still afford to pay out $3 mil of retention bonuses.
By definition that then means that if you are born a woman then you can forget all your dreams about becoming a competitive athlete because those roles are reserved for the ones that were born a male.
I think your article nails it on the head here.
One of the beauties of sport is let's let everybody play. We just need to acknowledge the other part of the equation, which is that there's always been inequities in sport. Somebody who's born taller than somebody who is shorter and plays basketball, we really don't have this conversation about the potential competitive advantage
In other words,
By definition that then means that if you are born short then you can forget all your dreams about becoming a competitive athlete (in basketball) because those roles are reserved for the ones that were born tall.
That said, we could theoretically have new height classes in basketball, the same way we already have weight classes for wrestling. Likewise, if we did need some new form of class for an Olympic sport, I'm sure we don't have to call it out by gender, but can have some similarly gender-agnostic criteria.
Like an intra-corporate transfer to the Canadian office of your current US-based employer?
Also, welcome!