Posted on 09/04/2025 2:48:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell is revising his take on transgender athletes, saying he's ashamed of his previous comments supporting trans women in sports.
Gladwell, 62, divulged his amended point of view on the hot-button issue during a podcast Tuesday, insisting "trans women have no place" competing with athletes assigned female at birth.
"If we did a replay of that exact panel at the Sloan conference this coming March, it runs in exactly the opposite direction," Gladwell said. "And it would be, I suspect, near unanimity in the room that trans athletes have no place in the female category. I don't think there's any question."
Gladwell said he regretted his 2022 appearance at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, where he moderated a panel discussing the "path forward for the inclusion" of transgender athletes in sports.
"I'm ashamed of my performance at that panel because I share your position 100 percent and I was cowed," Gladwell said on The Real Science of Sport. "The idea of saying anything on this issue — I was, I believe in retrospect, in a dishonest way, I was objecting in a dishonest way."
Benjamin Ryan, an independent writer who contributes to the New York Times, The Guardian and other outlets, publicly questioned whether Gladwell's reworked position would serve as a "tipping point" on transgender athletes, using the title of Gladwell's most well-known book.
Tim Miller, an analyst for MSNBC and host of "The Bulwark Podcast," criticized Gladwell's "shifting stance," as Ryan noted in a follow-up post.
"Rich people stop blaming their clinical desire to be loved on others challenge," Miller wrote on X. "These guys weren't cowed into anything they said the en vogue thing then and they are saying the en vogue thing now. Zuck, Bezos, Dimon same story."
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Who?
“”””where he moderated a panel discussing the “path forward for the inclusion” of transgender athletes in sports. “””
Inclusion for the trannies is quite simple to solve.
Put them on the boys team where they belong.
The Emperor has no clothes.
An idiot, but at least he admitted it. For being sold to us as such a big brained author, he sure is a slow learner. Next step, untangling the mountain of fallacies in “Outliers.”
with athletes assigned female at birth? I don’t believe anyone is “assigned” gender at birth. They are either male or female, or in very rare occasions, both.
Every crack in the dam is useful...................
Genetically men have a stronger bone structure, stronger and greater muscle mass, speed and strength. Even a trans women that is really a man retains this. They should not compete in sports. It is unfair.
Finally some are forced to admit "trans women" have no business competing in women's sports. Next maybe they can quit calling them "trans women" and call them what they are: MEN. They are not women of any kind, they are severely mentally ill MEN. Affirming their delusion has made it far worse, and made them more dangerous.
Covid intimidated the herd and after that it was easy to herd.
But this weakling will swing right in the other direction when the wind changes.
I don’t see how I can be forced to lie like that.
In the video, Gladwell is sitting in front of a picture of Mao.
Well I’m sure Mao didn’t put up with freaks.
His books are such a waste. His theories are great at predicting the past and the only thing that his vision of the future has is his ability to continue to sell books and make money.
“athletes assigned female at birth.”
What a stupid phrase. It avoids saying “female athletes,” which is apparently still a cancellable crime.
He put his finger in the air...twice.
‘Cowed’?
Or was it ‘Bulled’?
Equal genders, you know.
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