Unscientific American

San Jose’s “Blaire Fleming,” original equipment intact.

If you follow the controversy about men who put on dresses and then compete in women’s sports, you’ll recall that when “Lia Thomas” swam for Penn’s women’s swim team, the Penn administration threatened women on the team with severe consequences if they said anything critical of the matter. Just one more disgrace from Penn’s appalling administration.

So it has cheered me in recent days to note that three colleges have now refused to allow their women’s volleyball teams to play against San Jose State (choosing to forfeit instead), which has a transgender male playing for the team. Some background:

Blaire Fleming is an outside and right-side hitter for San Jose State University who’s made headlines in recent days after another San Jose player, Brooke Slusser, joined a lawsuit to sue the NCAA over Fleming’s inclusion on the Division I team.

Slusser alleges in the lawsuit that Fleming is a male, and that Fleming’s inclusion on the women’s volleyball team poses an unfair advantage and safety hazards.

“Brooke estimates that Fleming’s spikes were traveling upward of 80 mph, which was faster than she had ever seen a woman hit a volleyball,” says Slusser’s addition to the lawsuit complaint, proposed this week in the U.S. District Court for Northern Georgia. “The girls were doing everything they could to dodge Fleming’s spikes but still could not fully protect themselves.”

Meanwhile, Scientific American has shown how unscientific it is with this comment:

This isn’t accurate at all as it comes to pacemakers in long-distance running events. Women and men run together in the elite marathons like New York, Boston, etc, and male runners often form packs with and spur on the top female runners in the pack.

But never mind, because Scientific American contradicts itself in the very next paragraph:

“The only reason females are slower than males is that males have male pace makers, which is unfair because male pacemakers are faster than female pace makers.” [Emphasis added for the slow-witted proofreaders and copy editors at SciAm.]

Chaser—your feel good headline of the day:

Teacher fired for refusing to use student’s preferred pronouns gets $575K settlement

A Virginia teacher who was fired six years ago for refusing to refer to a biologically female student as “he/him” will be the recipient of an almost $600,000 settlement.

As reported by The College Fix, French teacher Peter Vlaming was fired by the West Point School Board in December of 2018 based on a policy  essentially invented “out of thin air.”