Hontas Farmer

Transgender Athletes, Evidence, and Policy A study has been making the rounds and has been published in BMJ. It is a meta-analysis of various research, providing strong scientific evidence focused specifically on sports. I don't think it will change much; just like a single study or court case won't eliminate transgender people or stop transphobia. It’s clear that trans women who have been on hormones for 1 to 3 years, especially longer, do not have a significant advantage on average.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the charlatans now shaping policy at the highest levels of HHS represent the most sustained assault on American public health since COVID-19 itself. That’s not hyperbole. What we have lived through over the past year is not merely a partisan squabble, but the delayed consequence of a simple, ugly fact: a bare majority of Americans spent years actively resisting factual information, and only recently began paying the price. RFK Jr Caricature.

The basic idea of economics is that human beings choose to do or not do things so as to acquire resources at the least expense to themselves. All human action is designed to reduce unease and increase comfort in some way or the other. We humans take actions so as to obtain what we need to live. We exchange labor for the means to obtain food, water, shelter, find mates and friends etc.