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A report on transgender women athletes in elite sport has found that if UCI [Union Cycliste Internationale] rules are adhered to, there is currently no substantial evidence of any biological advantages for trans women competing in elite women’s sport.
It found there was little evidence that biomedical factors related to male puberty such as lung size, bone density and hip-to-knee joint angle predict an unfair advantage. But some evidence that social factors like nutrition, training and access to equipment do.
These are just some of the key findings listed in an 86-page report titled Transgender Women Athletes and Elite Sport: A Scientific Review, which was published in late 2022 and commissioned by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES), an ethical sport advocacy non-profit with a vision of fair, safe, accessible, and inclusive sport for everyone.
The inclusion of trans women in elite women’s sport has been a hot button issue of late with high profile instances such as Emily Bridges’ attempt to compete in the UK sparking concern and upset on all sides. While the inclusion of trans women has led to protests by those who worry that cis women (the term for women born anatomically female) are at a competitive disadvantage at some U.S. races.
However, the report concluded that “the fears that cis women need be protected from trans women in elite sport are unsubstantiated and misplaced.
“What threatens women’s elite sport, for cis and trans women, is not trans women, but is rather misogyny in the form of underfunding, non-parity in participation and leadership, inequitable sport space allocation/access, and a range of sporting opportunities not afforded to women (cis women and trans women) in equitable ways.”

literally any upper middle class tiktok self-identified ‘that girl’ in a pastel workout set with a thirteen step skincare routine and a green juice is a million times closer to being patrick bateman irl than any self-identified sigma film bro

op managed to swing a bat at 2 hornets nests in one go

NIGHT OF THE AMMONITES, by Ray Troll

“Ancient ammonites came together in large aggregations to spawn and die, much as modern-day salmon do. The females of this genus, Placenticerus, reached the size of automobile tires. It’s likely that they timed their rendezvous with the much smaller males using a lunar cycle, hence the moonlit night. Avert your eyes if you must, but you can actually see tentacle-to-tentacle ammonite sex taking place in the lower center. Marine reptiles are darting in to snarf down a few of the preoccupied couples.”

Scat analysis collected near Claremont, California, revealed that coyotes relied heavily on pets as a food source in winter and spring.[180] At one location in Southern California, coyotes began relying on a colony of feral cats as a food source. Over time, the coyotes killed most of the cats and then continued to eat the cat food placed daily at the colony site by people who were maintaining the cat colony.[180]

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Anonymous asked:

The rehab I work at wants to use puppets to feed the baby animals. Do you know any resources on how to make puppets to help prevent imprint? Or would Ordinaryredtail be the better blog to ask?

Usually we just preserve some carcasses from patients that don't make it to send to a taxidermist and make simple stick puppets from, usually leaving a hole in the beak area to stick forceps through to feed.

You can also commission an artist to make a more traditional puppet.

Or paint over and modify a normal plush puppet.

Owls are the easiest to make puppets for because owls cannot see objects that are close to them very clearly at all, so the puppet need not be especially detailed. Vultures are the hardest as they are highly intelligent and observe things closely, their puppets should be detailed and they must be raised with siblings and mirrors.

Keep in mind that puppets are not the sole measure that should be taken to prevent imprinting.

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