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  1. It appears that US high-school sports do not have any such requirements. Canadian sports, too https://usports.ca/uploads/hq/Media_Releases/Members_Info/2018-19/Press_Release_-_Transgender_Policy.pdf
  2. ! Moderator Note Don’t hijack threads with your pet theory
  3. Are the targets arbitrary? My understanding is that many transgender women undergo hormone replacement therapy https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/feminizing-hormone-therapy/about/pac-20385096 The NCAA policy in 2011 makes no mention of target levels, only that the athlete needs to be undergoing HRT https://ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com/inclusion/lgbtq/INC_TransgenderHandbook.pdf
  4. Put another way, LIGO detects gravitational waves, which would involve a large number of gravitons, by detecting a separation of mirrors that changes by ~1/1000 the width of a proton. You wouldn’t expect to detect this with tides, much less the effect of a single graviton
  5. Since we’re talking about transgender athletes, no, it’s probably not a good comparison. And the response is: where is your evidence that this is the case? Comparisons of cis males and cis females aren’t germane. We need to compare the biology of trans women with cis women. Beyond the question of what chromosomes they have. If trans women will dominate these competitions, given that they have been competing for some time in various places, where are they? We should be flooded with trans women winning competitions if this thesis is true.
  6. 1. How big of an effect would individual gravitons have? 2. Is there anything about tides that suggests there is a discernible quantum effect at play?
  7. E =-m0c^2 is just something you made up; it’s not what the equation says ! Moderator Note And you were told not to bring this up again.
  8. This is intersex, so this is outside of the binary categories. If you read and understand the article you’ve mentioned, you’d possibly gain a clue. I don’t see how 0.018% is all that divergent from 0.02%–0.05%. One obvious difference in the definitions (in articles 17 years apart) is that one includes hormonal abnormalities and the other doesn’t Yeah, you’d have to read the abstracts of a couple of citations in the Wikipedia article, in addition to the article. Truly Herculean.
  9. I didn’t write the wikipedia article, so I’m not claiming anything about the numbers, but if you read (and understand) what was written, you might notice that the numbers are referenced to specific descriptions, which differ. i.e. if you use one particular definition of intersex, you get one range of numbers. If you use another, you get different numbers. Which is consistent with the later comment “There is no clear consensus definition of intersex and no clear delineation of which specific conditions qualify an individual as intersex”
  10. Yes, really. It says “Other conditions involve atypical chromosomes, gonads, or hormones” meaning that the ambiguous genitalia category is a subset of intersex individuals. That’s what “other conditions” implies And, since this hasn’t sunk in, I will repeat: the spectrum discussion isn’t about intersex individuals.
  11. I’ll ask you to define “woke” as well. That’s not the extrapolation. Ambiguous genitalia is a subset of the intersex category. (you can read the next passage in the wikipedia article, where they discuss “other conditions”) That wasn’t what the discussion of a spectrum was referring to. Yes, your strawman was silly.
  12. Two observations I recall from discussing locks with colleagues: 1. Locks keep honest people honest (i.e. they won’t succumb to temptation). Locks make it more difficult to gain access, not impossible. 2. One function of a lock is to make it obvious that someone has broken in. (Important e.g. if you are safeguarding information, which is something that could be copied without being physically removed.)
  13. This came up in another thread https://www.scienceforums.net/topic/132052-tired-light-split-from-entropy-energy-and-the-speed-of-light/ They did a fit to some data, but now what has to happen is seeing if other data fits the model.
  14. When you write down a function it needs to be valid for any value of the variables. Not just at one, particularly when it diverges. Units matter. ! Moderator Note Since you’re just repeating this nonsense, there’s no point in the thread remaining open. Do not bring this up again
  15. If v=c you do not have a valid equation 1/c-v is a function, valid for v≠c. If you choose v=c (or any fixed value) you do not have a function. You can do one or the other. Not both. Functions are not equal simply because they both diverge to the same limit. x and x+2 both go to infinity, but x ≠ x+2
  16. We’ve been discussing it for some time now. You refuse to acknowledge it, but you can’t arbitrarily add or subtract numbers that do not have the same units. “2” is unitless 1/c-v is not infinite; you can graph it and see that it tends to infinity as v approaches c, but you wrote is as a function. x+2 is not infinite either. You can’t arbitrarily set them equal to each other, and can’t use them as equations where x and v are variables, because you aren’t treating them as variables. It also looks like you are saying that two functions that tend to infinity in some limit are equal, which is just wrong.
  17. It doesn’t work that way. The notion that you can multiply one side of the equation by some factor and think it remains an equality underscores how ridiculous this assertion is.
  18. You did not “arrive” at your equation from accepted physics principles. You made it up. Particle accelerators test what happens when you accelerate particles all the time. Your formula can’t be tested because it’s not a valid equation.
  19. ! Moderator Note Material for discussion must be posted, and speculation must be supported with evidence
  20. ! Moderator Note This is a discussion forum, not your blog

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