It's a man baby! It's a man! This story centers around an elite woman biker in Canada who happened to be born as a man. Other women in Canadian mountain biking scene are protesting her status as a women, saying her male genetic heritage gives her a leg up. Their arguments are pretty persuasive to me-though if you accepted the logic that this "transgendered" person has an unfair inborn advantage-perhaps the same could be said of West African sprinters or Kenyan runners (and no doubt these women have genetic advantages over other women). This just points to a difference of taboos: Male/female differences are acceptable to moot in public, racial ones are not. One can argue (correctly in some cases) that racial differences are minimal next to sex differences (though I think most hereditarians would argue that the difference between Asian women and men in mathematical ability is smaller than between black men and Asian men)-which perhaps explains why the West is/was so much more tolerant of Saudi quasi-slavery of women than Afrikaner quasi-slavery of blacks. Women were, and to some extent can be, dehumanized in a way that is no longer acceptable on the racial level (thank gods for the latter, pity the former). But as they say (or do they?) gender is just a chromosome baby.... I wonder on what side the radical feminists will come down on. This sort of case makes me remember the android that burned up because of Kirk's logical conundrum that he always lies, and he just lied-should feminists support women bikers-or someone trying to break-down gender stereotypes and roles? The perils of being a Leftist....