{"id":4322,"date":"2022-04-24T21:56:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T21:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highclasswriters.com\/blog\/?p=4322"},"modified":"2022-04-24T21:56:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T21:56:52","slug":"korres348articlesummary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highclasswriters.com\/blog\/korres348articlesummary\/","title":{"rendered":"KOrrES348articlesummary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/malcolmgladwell.bulletin.com\/lia-thomas-trans-rights-and-the-future-of-elite-sports-3-takeaways-from-my-mit-panel\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lia Thomas, Trans Rights, and the Future of Elite Sports: 3 Takeaways From My MIT Panel<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The male\/female categories for sports were invented 100 years ago. Those categories now fit awkwardly at best to the world we live in today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/malcolmgladwellbooks\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/malcolmgladwellbooks\">Malcolm Gladwell<\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apr 12<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Welcome to Oh, MG, my newsletter where I get to be a little more, well, Malcolmy. Digress. Hold forth. Rant. Expand on some things that I\u2019ve been thinking about, or writing about, or that I\u2019m airing on my podcast, Revisionist History. <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/malcolmgladwell.bulletin.com\/subscribe\"><strong><em>SUBSCRIBE HERE<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em> so you never miss a thing!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had the privilege last month to moderate a <a href=\"https:\/\/l.bulletin.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sloansportsconference.com%2Fevent%2Ftransgender-athletes-a-conversation-led-by-malcolm-gladwell-on-data-and-participation-policy&amp;h=AT3ANJk2lSPsj6FIsFH_S-lGII40ReHsHg3nwRYimp7AaUSnd5EPvFns2itJgpBVLSE6iKQCwZEQpQvnOUuGKflDlW7XBih6oPDQeywjPXTlSQ42u886yGjq_X3zyqU32bLvFGyHWeFfzoECpX76\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">panel on transgender athletes<\/a> at the Sloan Conference at MIT. Sloan is the big sports analytics conference that takes over the Boston Convention Center every year, with dozens of presentations and discussions on the intersection between data and sports. My panel had three others on it: <a href=\"https:\/\/l.bulletin.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sloansportsconference.com%2Fpeople%2Fross-tucker&amp;h=AT0UBskuZH-xkFIhgfp1A1jLGvO3fmDF2VyenSQQBkAN71RZDZrphJ2UNWCxsMS5aZsCEwAvIPSNzSzgrKrsWBL514eo2LMqEPQjLqfqi7qe7jrNZ7-XITv7e4euVqYS6miWjQivOLuNaNO11rMv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ross Tucker<\/a>, a sports psychologist from South Africa; <a href=\"https:\/\/l.bulletin.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sloansportsconference.com%2Fpeople%2Fjoanna-harper&amp;h=AT3O2QAueWR1a3x4gnorsGI4xc0RB4c2Hd60ttb-cxB6rTqubk-smz5ukwHdOZVYsDRDb6q7Tnxby_dIabAYh1reTTlM_dkycB9Lcrae8wfylcdNqc2v-AlxDtnf_AFBrrORnf3eJ_NrcGvelgVn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Joanna Harper,<\/a> who is considered one of the foremost researchers in the field; and <a href=\"https:\/\/l.bulletin.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sloansportsconference.com%2Fpeople%2Fkatie-barnes&amp;h=AT0cxK6JHJ-SmKmtV2nK0Vp0rJsVWa50Tynigmky5zrN4GoDGt0t4zxNZpca5npnlYLfJZfFFDpBA5HcMI9ScNNGIchEG-ZL31zwyXFxlQoA7MV_fz_MXs_Fp1fHimGQbczkjuZiR331w9XdDb1i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Katie Barnes<\/a>, who covers trans issues for ESPN. Since trans participation in sports has recently become Topic #1 <a href=\"https:\/\/l.bulletin.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2022%2F03%2F25%2Fus%2Futah-transgender-athlete-ban-override.html&amp;h=AT2T1JRfWvsPeVDklJJZuWPfmCqUWlf-dHpZL_hvckXnJBbjTdFSsA362G5BTYvEdUWkcM1PDwS8rpfLPYP6n327CtJGu5Ur9cb-8Tr2OQ3mQu5ACvRif-qA6xmpQxfk1nnkqd-wtLLIMrjNxkJY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in legislatures<\/a> and in places like the <a href=\"https:\/\/l.bulletin.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2021%2F03%2F24%2Fopinion%2Ftrans-athletes-womens-sports.html&amp;h=AT002gtA7OzhpW6njua-S_48fVf1bBSRZWYQNEFF-vPEgdrjkNIIbdHlMy00u0LCrPAssDSZn_p85Sln2Mi313i2Jc58g0Ov4-tV5ySgPH7uZTHB-udfA-KjYUvJPWCviTwU-8GYrsaD94rBe4R2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York Times<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/l.bulletin.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fopinion%2Fwomens-sports-extinction-transgender-athletes&amp;h=AT0qdr5V6GF29PNlGdxPBq4Ml3EK62OH7v2tMiQUT_Lu9BU0sefxL6-yTenJQJMiCWO7_s_04K4c_HQX09t8W2FBe4r4G5pAhQF3Cq16O4z2piB4KeYXPlWQCWWM0MDC5ikQxffcc5WYGVZqN1MW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fox News<\/a> Opinion pages, I thought I would share a few of my takeaways from the discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1. There are many existential threats to the trans community in the United States right now. The question of whether trans women should be able to participate in elite women\u2019s sports is not one of them.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Katie Barnes made a version of this point at the end of our discussion, and I thought it was the most important point of the day: \u201cWe&#8217;re seeing a tremendous amount of openness around bills passing that affect different slices of the experiences in public life of trans people and of LGBTQ people more broadly and doing so with relative impunity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If anything, she was understating matters. What is happening right now in America on the state level is horrifying. It is open season on the trans community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is worth reading\u2014if you haven\u2019t already\u2014the <a href=\"https:\/\/l.bulletin.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgov.texas.gov%2Fuploads%2Ffiles%2Fpress%2FO-MastersJaime202202221358.pdf&amp;h=AT3BVILsaX5UUuuqplWRbQOCkBP4_-sBiw04AaPTEYZfAbzp2zZOp9zSZFIuTOnC_yuavDeTK67wDjxElSiGqJD6VYKDqDFrzsDUoX4fumRDLn6PN7i4DB51DgkTKjWrFIxFrvcVvKrRVbC2zsFs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">letter Texas Governor Greg Abbott wrote<\/a> to the head of the state\u2019s Department of Family and Protective Services. In it, he says that Texas intends to classify what is known as \u201cgender-affirming care\u201d for trans youth as child abuse. <a href=\"https:\/\/l.bulletin.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.texastribune.org%2F2021%2F08%2F04%2Fgender-affirming-care-transgender-texas%2F&amp;h=AT0n-v4yuIqqHfyapajLhtpBtBqFzm3vkXt-hdt-XnLh6195zRbeb9NDWa_Xvyh-HVtti0GuIobMsVSlVOh0q8RQkBwoqNzxMTv7jhAagOrmPM9GtO31QcFZY4xvnVF7TC7Lkm1qkJNtKZzy4xwB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gender-affirming care<\/a> includes things like puberty-blocking medications and hormone injections. Abbott writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTexas law imposes reporting requirements upon all licensed professionals who have direct contact with children who may be subject to such abuse, including doctors, nurses, and teachers, and provides criminal penalties for failure to report such child abuse. \u2026 There are similar reporting requirements and criminal penalties for members of the general public.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wait. What??<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abbott goes on to describe what sounds an awful lot like a witch hunt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTexas law also imposes a duty on DFPS to investigate the parents of a child who is subjected to these abusive gender-transitioning procedures, and on other state agencies to investigate licensed facilities where such procedures may occur.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To put it mildly, this is <em>nuts.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is one thing if people want to debate the merits of gender-affirming care. But this isn\u2019t the State of Texas weighing in on the argument. This is Texas using its most punitive enforcement powers to terrorize parents who are trying to help their children navigate a deeply confusing and consequential set of questions and challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This kind of thing is not only going on in Texas. The last few years have seen <a href=\"https:\/\/l.bulletin.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Fnbc-out%2Fout-politics-and-policy%2Fleast-7-states-proposed-anti-trans-bills-first-week-2022-rcna11205&amp;h=AT35JdR6U92GmxcFMFQnWzsZRvXwNXwI11BtSlVnJtsEUqZ0wULv5xnEjzjoqUYaZX3dDMPFUADWEjdfH94VS7KvlG80njFmQOzTxNQkME62ZcIQfH106CZ0z_nqpFDDgCFJcFlnIIqizYSzbI2z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a surge of anti-trans legislation<\/a> from states. Meanwhile, there are <a href=\"https:\/\/l.bulletin.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fjournals.sagepub.com%2Fdoi%2Fpdf%2F10.1177%2F0886260520915554%3Fcasa_token%3DqkApSoC7VQAAAAAA%253AkxYF8FZrs90-y6viFLEg4UEV3T43SFz5cvcc1GchPCxNifrUsBxVGsdupKP5NBFORnxU-dS5a55zCpY&amp;h=AT1I_rSTLLr_tmgPljzfk7HZ7KiPyfQh4jsnBrskb3Z2Yhfh2Q6O0StyC0ffvelc0kGHeJvNr184yk6tSguZ0oHopnORw04gFH8T8QRWJ3NAlTt3X7VSFkB0svhOZyDnVpqyXgQ8Ogg4bFBXofk_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">studies being published<\/a> in academic and medical journals that begin like this: \u201cData indicate that 82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40% have attempted suicide, with suicidality highest among transgender youth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a crisis going on in the transgender community, and it\u2019s a lot bigger than the question of whether transgender athletes can or can\u2019t compete in sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few weeks ago, the governor of Utah attempted (and ultimately failed) to veto an anti-trans athlete bill in his state. And <a href=\"https:\/\/l.bulletin.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fdrive.google.com%2Ffile%2Fd%2F1emUTfFEbmNmSdW9UhhsRAseVNr4cPIv9%2Fview&amp;h=AT2hogLvY4UburUyLTg3LX8Gtu3L_OAo931EnvR9W9uppx01PWmP9ac27aLFEij6FVh7VdJM_NXy8eictDGPkdsFBkQ_YBbAbOlAMpxakTVlcgFmiXzSbad0lRs1p7VYlon78Po67GACfMoCQ92x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">his main point was this same argument<\/a>. By his count out of 75,000 kids who compete in school sports in Utah, a grand total of four are openly transgender. And of those four, only one competes for a girl\u2019s team, which is, obviously, the problematic category of transgender athletic participation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cox writes: \u201cFour kids and only one of them playing girls sports. That\u2019s what this is all about. Four kids who aren\u2019t dominating or winning trophies or taking scholarships. Four kids who are just trying to find some friends and feel like they are part of something.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He continues: \u201cRarely has so much fear and anger been directed at so few, I don\u2019t understand what they are going through or why they feel the way they do. But I want them to live.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\u2019s absolutely right. The big debate this spring over transgender athletes was triggered by the swimmer Lia Thomas. Thomas used to compete for the Penn men\u2019s team, but she transitioned last year. She competed this spring for the Penn women\u2019s team and promptly <a href=\"https:\/\/l.bulletin.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.espn.com%2Fcollege-sports%2Fstory%2F_%2Fid%2F33526300%2Flia-thomas-qualifies-first-500-freestyle-ncaa-championships-small-crowd-protests-swimmer-event&amp;h=AT1xZoN2-Pt_w3eo4Py_krrNVRTuL98Pu4zhXbgdRmJv0vglEGgNUJN5avTut1vqaWHnMQiuOJ9Kgr5qIRTl5sZ5O6Qdk-TsvA9Pga5M36KTYOGyQkh70Vrhq9d0_bokpymZVvjPMhH1ITutHwSj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">won the 500-yard freestyle<\/a> at the NCAA championships by a significant margin. Even in a world where more and more trans people come out of the closet, it is unlikely that what happened with Lia Thomas is going to be a common occurrence. There are no other trans women who have ever competed at that level in women\u2019s swimming. Or, for that matter, who have ever won an NCAA title in <em>any<\/em> event. Given the amount of jumping up and down over trans athletes on both sides of this issue, you would think this is one of the biggest social crises in America. It isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2. It is possible to be in favor of trans rights and against trans participation in sports.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many Americans\u2014and I would even go so far as to say most\u2014are appalled by the wave of anti-trans legislation sweeping the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, many of those same people have difficulty accepting the idea that someone who has grown up biologically male\u2014who has the heart and lungs and musculature of a man, and 20-odd years of the benefit of male hormones\u2014should be allowed to compete against cisgender women, who have had none of those accumulated physiological advantages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These people do not think of these two positions as mutually exclusive. What\u2019s happening in Texas is a violation of basic human rights. But what should be done with trans athletes\u2014in particular trans women who want to compete with cisgender women\u2014is as much a practical and empirical question as it is a debate over principle. The male\/female categories for sporting events were invented 100 years ago, at a time when no one thought the division of athletes along those lines was either complicated or controversial. The world has changed. Those categories now fit awkwardly at best to the world we live in today. How do you ensure a level playing field when someone from one category crosses over and joins another category\u2014when the second category involves people with markedly fewer physiological advantages than the first?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was preparing for the Sloan session, I asked a ton of people to give me their perspective on this issue. Virtually everyone I spoke to was adamantly in favor of trans rights and against the participation of trans women in women\u2019s sports. The <a href=\"https:\/\/l.bulletin.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2F2022%2F03%2F23%2Flia-thomas-trans-swimmer-ncaas-fairness-inclusion%2F&amp;h=AT2rhquVgEtGM0G523WQGccXxhGzCGOEFMmgwAMQYNCyC7CREFX40QLGb-4YsftK9UY5K3dKwUOiY33IRleYvChhM4DcV9JM6oeFMeaWj0yngOErLMGPLBZjG7ObqwFoT0yzZ4sol4_vfh47sU15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle<\/a> reached the same conclusion regarding the parents, teammates, and others who spoke up in opposition to Lia Thomas\u2019s championship win: \u201cI\u2019ve now written two columns about Thomas, and it is striking how many people \u2014 almost all of them liberal \u2014 have spontaneously erupted when I told them what I was writing about. All made the same complaint: It\u2019s not <em>fair<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, you may disagree with the way many Americans have chosen to divide up their support for trans rights and freedoms. My point is simply: many, many people <em>are<\/em> divided on these questions. And if the trans community is currently losing the political argument in America, it may be because they are trying to attach a civil rights crusade that has strong public support to a niche debate that has limited public support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3. The central question has been: \u201cShould transgender women be allowed to compete alongside cisgender women?\u201d That\u2019s the wrong question.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The discussion we had at Sloan was instructive on this point. We had two people on the panel\u2014Katie Barnes and Joanna Harper\u2014who might be called trans-rights activists, and one, Ross Tucker, who has been critical of the current policies regarding the participation of trans women in elite sport. But we didn\u2019t have a philosophical debate over rights. We had, instead, a quite technical discussion about how this complicated effort to level the playing field between trans women and cis women is supposed to work. You can\u2019t just let trans women sign up for women\u2019s sports the minute they have decided to transition. No one thinks that would be fair. The consensus is that trans women have to make some concession to their innate biological advantage. That concession, at the present time in many sports, involves taking testosterone-suppression medication for roughly a year and a half, such that testosterone levels fall below five nanomoles per liter (which represents a roughly 75-percent decrease from typical male levels).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s the point in the conversation where Joanna Harper talked about what we know happens when a trans woman suppresses her testosterone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cOur systematic review is on non-athletes \u2014 and certainly, no one would generally consider a review of non-athletes to be definitive for athletes, but in this case, it&#8217;s the best we have.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cThe two biggest findings that our review found were that hemoglobin levels in trans women went from male levels to female levels within three to four months, but that strength did not go from male levels to female levels, even after 36 months of hormone therapy. And there were other findings, but those were the two largest. \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cSo there are a number of changes that will happen to trans women when they undergo hormone therapy. But hormone therapy will not turn trans women into cisgender or typical women.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Hormone therapy will not turn transwomen into cisgender or typical women.<\/em> Understand that this is an advocate for trans participation in sports speaking. But what she&#8217;s saying is that the process of trying to create a level playing field is tricky. Hemoglobin falls. But physical strength doesn\u2019t, and nor\u2014obviously\u2014do height and weight. Even the standard of asking trans women to lower their testosterone to below five nanomoles per liter is problematic: that\u2019s <em>still<\/em> two and half times higher than the levels in the overwhelming majority of cis women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what does this mean? It means that it is silly to push the idea\u2014as conservatives seem to want to do at the moment\u2014that people should only be able to compete in the gender category they were assigned to at birth. If the effects of testosterone suppression are so variable, every sport is going to have to come up with its own way of handling the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hemoglobin is the protein in the blood that carries oxygen. So if male hemoglobin falls to female levels with testosterone suppression, that means the playing field for trans women and cis women in endurance sports is going to be pretty level. But <em>strength<\/em> doesn\u2019t fall much, so the decision facing power sports is going to be very different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 100-meter dash is going to be a hard case. But the 5000-meter run might not be. Basketball is a hard case. But competitive shooting, which depends on neither strength nor endurance? Super easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, Ross Tucker makes a very compelling argument that with contact sports like, say, rugby, there\u2019s a real safety issue that needs to be sorted out, first and foremost. If a 6-foot-4, 250-pound trans woman wants to play a contact sport with lots of cis women, does that create an unacceptably elevated risk of concussion or injury? Good question. Sports like rugby and ultimate fighting and hockey are going to have to sort that one out\u2014and the conversation they\u2019ll need to have is going to be very different than, say, the conversations that will have to take place in Nordic skiing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I could go on. There\u2019s an additional level of complexity added by the level of competition. Millions of dollars can be on the line in a high-prestige Olympic event, so getting this process right really matters. But do we care if occasionally a little child who was born a boy but identifies as a girl wants to play on the girls\u2019 soccer team? There are people who try to pretend that the two cases\u2014Olympic sports and some random 9-year-old\u2019s intramural soccer team\u2014are the same. They are not. If we are to be intellectually honest, we must admit that it is foolish to espouse a principled position on trans participation in sports. There is no principle here. Only a lot of hard decisions. And there is certainly no <em>position<\/em> here. Only <em>positions.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The funniest moment in the Sloan discussion was when I asked Katie Barnes to describe what Lia Thomas would have to do to qualify for the Olympic trials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Katie Barnes: How much time we got?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Malcolm Gladwell: I want you to do it as economically as possible because\u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Katie Barnes: Yes, of course.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Malcolm Gladwell: And I know why you&#8217;re looking at your&#8230; Because it&#8217;s a little baffling.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Katie Barnes: Well, it&#8217;s also changing. It&#8217;s very much in flux. So prior to January 19th, the NCAA policy that went into effect in 2011 stipulated that for transgender women to be eligible to compete in the women&#8217;s category, they needed to undergo 12 months of testosterone suppression. And get cleared by the NCAA, whatever. That was the rule.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>And on January 19th, the NCAA said, &#8220;Actually, we&#8217;re going to defer to the policies by national governing bodies, as per, our committee is going to review them.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the issue goes to something called the Committee on Competitive Safeguards, which promises to review the policies from the national governing body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Katie Barnes: So then the question became, &#8220;Okay, what&#8217;s USA Swimming&#8217;s policy?&#8221; And to that point, USA Swimming had a really process-oriented policy around youth wanting to institute a name change to be competitive at the club level.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barnes went on. And on. And remember, she was doing the best she could to be economical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Katie Barnes: And then in that policy, deferred to whatever the IOC and FINA\u2014the international federation\u2014said was appropriate. Well, the IOC has also recently said, in late 2021, that they&#8217;re going to have a framework of recommendations and principles for international federations to develop their own policies. So we don&#8217;t know what FINA&#8217;s policy is at that moment either.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>And so a couple weeks later, USA Swimming says, well, what we&#8217;re going to do is require transgender women who are competing in the <em>elite<\/em> category, \u2026 those who are going to compete in elite events\u2014importantly, the NCAA championships is not considered an elite event by USA Swimming\u2014and those who want to be eligible to break records beginning at age 13 and 14, need to go in front of an independent panel of three people and suppress their testosterone for 36 consecutive months\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And on. And on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Katie Barnes: I would just like to point out, I did it in a minute and 30 seconds. So\u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Malcolm Gladwell: I know, that was so impressive.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Katie Barnes: Thank you. Thank you.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The people running the swimming world are not dumb or insensitive. But they are\u2014like everyone else\u2014trying their best to sort through something that isn\u2019t easy. I think we all need to calm down. And be patient. A debate in the absence of understanding is not actually a debate. It\u2019s just a shouting match. 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