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	<title>CyDy Blog: the sexy brains of Cyber Dyke &#187; Sports</title>
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		<title>100% Woman</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jul 2006 01:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently got digital cable, and I&#8217;ve been spending a lot of time watching Logo, a 24/7 gay channel. I&#8217;m watching Real Momentum: 100% Woman right now; it&#8217;s a documentary about mountain biker Michelle Dumaresq. She&#8217;s transgender, so there is a lot of controversy about whether she should be allowed to compete against women. This [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently got digital cable, and I&#8217;ve been spending a lot of time watching <a href="http://www.logoonline.com/">Logo</a>, a 24/7 gay channel.  I&#8217;m watching <em>Real Momentum: 100% Woman</em> right now; it&#8217;s a documentary about mountain biker Michelle Dumaresq.  She&#8217;s transgender, so there is a lot of controversy about whether she should be allowed to compete against women.  This is not an isolated case &#8211; there is actually <a href="http://www.eros-london.com/articles/2004-06-01/transolympics/">a long history</a> of debate about this issue.</p>
<p>Personally, I&#8217;m not sure how I feel about it.  In all other arenas, I would expect transwomen to be equal with non-trans women.  But in sports, where physical elements <em>do</em> contribute to winning and losing, is it really fair for someone who may have greater strength to compete against women?  I honestly don&#8217;t know the answer to this.  There&#8217;s a scientist in the documentary who says that hormone therapy eliminates any &#8220;unfair&#8221; advantage, but it&#8217;s hard to overcome popular perception, and Michelle Dumaresq will probably always have this controversy following her.</p>
<p>My favorite scene in the documentary isn&#8217;t related to gender.  It was when Michelle had suffered a bad crash, and she was being worked on by medics.  She had her head turned away and her eyes squinched shut, and she was saying &#8220;I love downhilling&#8221; over and over to herself.  Ouch!</p>
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		<title>Sheryl Swoopes comes out about lesbian love Alisa Scott</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2005 22:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WNBA superstar Sheryl Swoopes has kept a secret for seven years, only now she&#8217;s &#8220;quit pretending.&#8221; [link] My comments: I&#8217;m not sure if I should be surprised by this or not. There have been rumors since the league&#8217;s inception that all WNBA players are gay. And yet Swoopes had left her sexuality a mystery for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WNBA superstar Sheryl Swoopes has kept a secret for seven years, only now she&#8217;s &#8220;quit pretending.&#8221; [<a href="http://www.queerday.com/2005/oct/27/sheryl_swoopes_comes_out_about_lesbian_love_alisa_scott.html">link</a>]</p>
<p><em>My comments: I&#8217;m not sure if I should be surprised by this or not.  There have been rumors since the league&#8217;s inception that all WNBA players are gay.  And yet Swoopes had left her sexuality a mystery for so long that I wish she&#8217;d come out sooner.</em></p>
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