Musings on the news : sex and prison

I'm confused at the current kerfuffle about the South African chick who is getting harassed for not being a chick, or maybe being a chick. The human rights bleedin' hearts brigade say, if she feels like a woman, she's a woman.
I find that argument to be bollox.
There are fundamental differences in muscular development between men and woman, related to the distribution and quantity of testosterone and oestrogen. that's why there are significant differences between the sexes in the world record times in athletics.
If we follow the liberals perspective to its logical conclusion, then men and woman will race against each other with no differentiation due to sex. And my money will be on men winning. A lot.


So, as far as I'm concerned, all athletes should be tested. Aside from the usual collection of drugs testing, throw in a TDF or SRY gene test. Presence = male, absence = female. It really is that simple. This is a better test than a karyotype spread, it is possible to be male without a Y chromosome, as it's those genes (SRY in particular) that derails the default female pathway into male development.


And in the second part, prison. See I bet most of you reading this thought it would be a perverted missive on prison sex, hahaha fell into my cunning plan !
Scotland and that prisoner. The one who may, or may not have, had something to do with the Lockerbie bombing. Now a lot of political mileage is being made from this case, Gordie B-boi managed to fuck things up again, by forgetting to comment - although Cameron and his c-rew havent really done much of note either.
To recap: Scotland released Abdelbaset al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds. He's got three months to live due to cancer. 

The yanks are complaining. Not entirely surprising since if he'd been tried over there it'd have been a quick fry-up, or a long long soak in a bath - head first.
The American on the street is quoted as saying it's disgusting and that they won't be going on holiday to Scotland, and will boycott Scottish products. 
I know where I'm holidaying next :)
I wonder if their boycotting includes North Sea oil? Heh heh. Shame its 2pm, otherwise I'd have a nip of Scotch to show solidarity...


Personally: the Scottish governments decision may act as the defining act of the country. From my vague following of the self-governing thing the Scots have been doing, and discussions with various Scots, no-one seemed very sure what the hell Alex and crew were doing previously. 
This decision is compassionate. It's sensible. It should shame countries who don't do similar (US?). And if I were Scottish, I'd feel very proud of the government - something akin to how NZ felt when we told nuclear powered warships to piss off.


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