contiguous draft of "Point Man"
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1 Title: Untitled Sports Post
2 Date: 2020-01-01 
3 Category: commentary
4 Tags: autogynephilia
5 Status: draft
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7 https://www.thenation.com/article/trans-runner-daily-caller-terry-miller-andraya-yearwood-martina-navratilova/
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9 I guess I shouldn't be surprised at this point, but—I thought The Nation was pretty reputable among mainstream liberal magazines? Is biological sex denialism (!!!) ACTUALLY MAINSTREAM now??
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11 My so-called "rationalist" friends think they can get away with these clever definition-hacking word games ("Oh, but we're just defining words in this way; we're not implying any particular false proposition"). Maybe it even works for us, because we're sufficiently smart and sufficiently science-literate to deftly rationalize around our own belief-in-belief!
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13 in a sane world, we would actually talk about effect sizes
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15 Cohen's d
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17 I got it from Janet Hyde but it should just be mainstream
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19 pinewood derby
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21 http://www.cifncs.org/sports/cross_country/History/2005/DivIIBoys2005.html
22 http://www.cifncs.org/sports/cross_country/History/2005/DivIIGirls2005.html
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24 https://www.dailywire.com/news/44042/equality-male-track-star-switches-female-senior-amanda-prestigiacomo
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26 https://patch.com/connecticut/hartford/courage-award-recipients-chosen-connecticut-sports-writers