New study shows sex could be a better predictor of sports performance than gender identity

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[–]fvdcsxaz 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"Study suggests thing everyone has known to be true since the dawn of time may be true"

[–]shadeviking 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

New study shows water could be wet and grass could be green.

[–]hfxB0oyADon't piss on my head & tell me it's raining. 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

grass could be green

Hey now, don't colonize grass with your assumptions as to its identity.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There was a fairly interesting final paragraph that sort of makes me think that there’s some hope. It’s like they’re very slowly walking back on the utter nonsense that has pervaded academia for the past decade.

Dr John Armstrong, Reader in Financial Mathematics at King's, said: “Gender identity is clearly important to many people, but nevertheless sex matters.

“Given the lack of empirical evidence supporting gender-identity theory, one should not assume by default that gender-identity is a more powerful explanatory variable than sex. Being an objectively measurable binary variable, sex has considerable explanatory advantages over gender identity.

“Our results illustrate that if we want to understand the needs of gender non-conforming individuals, it is vital to control for biological sex as it is likely to play a significant role in any analysis. Both sex and gender identity should therefore both be considered useful explanatory variables in data collection.”

[–]bife_de_lomo 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The author seems to have far too much common sense. This wording is likely a reaction to his previous rejections:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/26/transgender-athlete-research-rejected-professor-called-trans/

[–]hfxB0oyADon't piss on my head & tell me it's raining. 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Sex may be a more useful explanatory variable than gender identity

What a measly-mouthed "don't cancel me, bro" opening statement.

[–]alladd 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I hope everyone who worked on this study gets to take a long break after this - three day weekend, margaritas, the works. Christ what a chore this must have been, proving the most obvious fucking shit.

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Hey, pulling their heads out of their asses, clearing the stink of shit from their brains, and confronting the harsh light of reality is a hard chore. Give them a break, yeah?

[–]The_Best_Yak_Ever 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The reason “little empirical data” exists on sex differences in athletics between men and women, is because it’s fucking obvious, and only bad faith freaks and depraved clowns claim there’s no difference. Literally all of us know that men are on average stronger and bigger than women. The only people butt hurt over that fact, are either fat gross losers who always got picked last in PE or pathetic men who want to cheat by competing against women. It’s no mystery why trans identified women never clamor to compete in the men’s category, which are technically the open categories. They could play in the men’s leagues if they had the skills. But they don’t. Because they’re women, and women simply aren’t good enough to compete with men in higher end sports leagues. It’s literally only men who are either too inept to actually compete with other men, or who just want to creep on women while stealing their opportunities and trophies.

Fuck the trans activists and their legion of asshole supporters for making this research necessary.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Title IX was signed into law in 1972. That's basically when schools started providing female sports leagues because everyone just knew by default already that wen couldn't complete. There was enough empirical data in 1972 to force schools into providing female leagues.