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| The Disease of Tolerance and Political Correctness Revelation 2:19: I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first. 20 But I have this against you, that you tolerate that [...] ... READ MORE |
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The federal government’s decision to try Osama bin
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Fallon Fox featherweight champ, a man who beats up women
MMA Fighter Fallon Fox May Lose Her License After Revealing She’s a Trans Woman
It's been about a year and a half since the Caster Semenya clusterfuck,
during which Olympic silver medal sprinter Semenya was forced to
undergo gender testing in 2009 because her athletic skill led some to
believe she was intersex (she was later cleared for competing in the
women's category).
And we learned something from that, I hope, besides the fact that you better watch the fuck out if you're not a female athlete who looks "like a girl", and plays sports "like a girl."
Female MMA 5-0 featherweight champ Fallon Fox told Sports Illustrated this week that she underwent male-to-female sexual reassignment surgery back in 2006. Although experts say that the level of testosterone that Fallon's at by now is obviously significantly lower than the male levels—even some of females'—the fairness of Fox's competing in the female category has come into question, and her fighting license may be revoked.
Last year, the Association of Boxing Commissions drafted a transgender policy, but this is the first time it's been needed: it requires Fox to provide her complete medical history as well as a board certified endocrinologist to testify that she's been on hormone therapy for 2 years or more.
Others are arguing, as Sports On Earth explains, the same gender binary necessary to have segregated male and female athletics, which ultimately empowers female athletes, is the main case against Fox:
'How Fallon Fox became the first known transgender athlete in MMA' [Sports Illustrated]
'Gender Equity' [Sports on Earth]
http://jezebel.com/5989623/mma-fighter-fallon-fox-may-lose-her-license-after-revealing-shes-a-trans-woman
And we learned something from that, I hope, besides the fact that you better watch the fuck out if you're not a female athlete who looks "like a girl", and plays sports "like a girl."
Female MMA 5-0 featherweight champ Fallon Fox told Sports Illustrated this week that she underwent male-to-female sexual reassignment surgery back in 2006. Although experts say that the level of testosterone that Fallon's at by now is obviously significantly lower than the male levels—even some of females'—the fairness of Fox's competing in the female category has come into question, and her fighting license may be revoked.
Last year, the Association of Boxing Commissions drafted a transgender policy, but this is the first time it's been needed: it requires Fox to provide her complete medical history as well as a board certified endocrinologist to testify that she's been on hormone therapy for 2 years or more.
Others are arguing, as Sports On Earth explains, the same gender binary necessary to have segregated male and female athletics, which ultimately empowers female athletes, is the main case against Fox:
This whole debate is a clash of two progressive values — fluid definitions of sexual identity and the Title IX revolution. Every female athlete in the world has benefited from a form of discrimination and segregation. Without strict division, men would claim virtually every prize in sports. They did so for ages, before women could compete.Fox's manager and various MMA promoters have thrown their weight behind her ("She's a sweet woman" "She has to live in her own skin and I support her 100 percent." "As long as she's licensed, she's always welcome in our promotion.") Fox, who has a sixteen-year-old daughter born before her gender reassignment surgery, says: "I want to go as far as I can go, just like the other female fighters. I just want the same opportunities."
'How Fallon Fox became the first known transgender athlete in MMA' [Sports Illustrated]
'Gender Equity' [Sports on Earth]
http://jezebel.com/5989623/mma-fighter-fallon-fox-may-lose-her-license-after-revealing-shes-a-trans-woman
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C4L: $85 a plate dinner, and you foot the bill
$85
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Filet of Beef with truffled potato mouselline, bone marrow and Madeira Jus:
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Access to clergy sex abuse site limited at Vatican
A Vatican spokesman said the site may be blocked because of an automatic filter system that checks words that appear on websites for explicit nature or inappropriateness.
Some court documents that appear on the site might contain such language, said Basilian Fr. Thomas Rosica. “It would make sense they would block the words, not knowing it’s a clergy abuse website.”
When accessing one of the four web addresses for Bishopaccountability.org, users are told “this page has been blocked by the Vatican protection system” in Italian capital letters in a notice at the top of a page with a background image of St. Peter’s Basilica.
“If you believe that the report is incorrect,” the notice states, you can provide feedback by entering your name, email, affiliation and rationale.
“Thanks for your help,” it reads.
The access error comes when users attempt to access the site from www.bishopaccountability.org.
Three other variations of the site’s name -- bishopaccountability.org, bishop-accountability.org, and www.bishop-accountability.org -- are accessible.
When users access the www.bishopaccountability.org address, the form inviting feedback on the blocking records the user’s IP address, a numerical label identifying the computer used, and labels the category of the request “Hate/Racism.”
Rosica, who has been providing English language translation for the Vatican during its daily press briefings, said he had previously had trouble accessing other websites, including for the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail.
After submitting the form and explaining the situation, Rosica said, the website became available “very quickly.”
Bishopaccountability.org, which is a non-profit corporation in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, is run by a staff of two located in the Boston area.
A staple of those researching the decades-long clergy sex abuse crisis, the site includes links to reporting on abuse since the 1980s, a database of accused abusers throughout the U.S., testimonies of abuse survivors, and court documents from lawsuits and criminal prosecutions across the U.S.
Among its activities in the past year, the site has:
*Made available more than 8,500 pages of material detailing claims of sexual abuse by a group of Franciscan priests and brothers in California, after their court-ordered release in May 2012;
*Provided a detailed timeline of the witness testimonies and evidence in the trial of Msgr. William Lynn, a former official in the Philadelphia archdiocese who was found guilty in June 2012 of endangering children during his time at the archdiocese from 1992-2004, and;
*Given background information on the release of some 12,000 files documenting Cardinal Roger Mahony and the Los Angeles’ archdiocese’s handling of abuse cases in the 1980s, following the files’ court ordered release in February 2013;
“This Web site is dedicated to the survivors and their families and loved ones,” the site states on its “About us” page.
Access to one of the site’s four addresses was prevented by the web service provided in Paul VI Audience Hall, a facility the Vatican has provided for use by reporters during the papal transition.
NCR has filed a request for the address to be unblocked.
[Joshua J. McElwee is an NCR staff writer. His email address is jmcelwee@ncronline.org. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/joshjmac.]
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