“One time my cousin Walter got this cat stuck in his ass. True story. He bought it at the local mall, so the whole fiasco wound up on the news. It was embarrassing for my relatives and all. But the next week, he did it again. Different cat, same results, complete with a trip to the emergency room. Then, last week, I saw him in the pet store. He was buying another cat. I said, "Walt, what the hell are you doing, you know you're just gonna get this cat stuck up your ass too, why don't you knock it off?" And he says to me, "Brodie, how the hell else am I supposed to get the gerbil out?" My cousin was a weird guy.”

Mallrats (1995)  Dir: Kevin Smith

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'Mallrats' (1995) film

-watched 8/5/2023- 3 stars- on Netflixdvd

Both dumped by their girlfriends, two best friends seek refuge in the local mall. Eventually, they decide to try and win back their significant others and take care of their respective nemeses. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Rene: Shannen Doherty T.S. Quint: Jeremy London Brodie: Jason Lee Brandi: Claire Forlani Shannon: Ben Affleck Gwen: Joey Lauren Adams Tricia: Renée Humphrey Silent Bob: Kevin Smith Jay: Jason Mewes Willam: Ethan Suplee Stan Lee: Stan Lee Ivannah: Priscilla Barnes Svenning: Michael Rooker La Fours: Sven-Ole Thorsen Security Guard: Carol Banker Arresting Cop #2: Steven Blackwell Pull Toy Kid: Kyle Boe TV Executive #1: David Brinkley Fan Boy: Walt Flanagan Guy Contestant #1: Ethan Flower Girl with Easter Bunny: Chelsea Frye TV Executive #2 – Bentley Garrison: Jeff Gadbois Guy Contestant #2: Ed Hapstak Cop #1: Terry Hempleman Game Show Host: Art James Steve Dave: Bryan Johnson Child at Kiosk #2: Mikey Kovar Fan at Comic Store: David Klein Roddy: Scott Mosier Saleslady at Lingerie Store: Crystal Muirhead-Manik Kid at Poster Kiosk: Tyson Nassauer Gill: Brian O’Halloran Passerby in Parking Lot: Aaron Preusse Child at Kiosk #1: Britt Swenson Teacher: Mary Woolever Team La Fours: Brad Fox Team La Fours: Gino Gori Team La Fours: Zach Perkins Team La Fours: Brad Giddings Team La Fours: Bryce Mack Team La Fours: Christopher O’Larkin Audience Member (uncredited): Earl R. Burt Shopper (uncredited): Tammara Melloy Screaming Girl in Audience (uncredited): Rachel Oliva Shoobie Shake Girl (uncredited): Jessica Sibinski Comic Book Fan (uncredited): Joel Thingvall Film Crew: Supervising Sound Editor: Richard LeGrand Jr. Producer: Sean Daniel Producer: James Jacks Thanks: John Hughes Supervising Music Editor: J.J. George Casting: Don Phillips Writer: Kevin Smith Stunts: Phil Chong Producer: Scott Mosier Stunts: Sven-Ole Thorsen Stunt Coordinator: Robert Apisa Director of Photography: David Klein Original Music Composer: Ira Newborn Editor: Paul Dixon Production Design: Dina Lipton Executive Producer: Caldecot Chubb ADR Mixer: Alan Holly Set Decoration: Diana Stoughton Line Producer: Laura Greenlee Stunts: Chuck Zito Production Supervisor: Beth DePatie Post Production Supervisor: Terra Abroms Foley Artist: Joan Rowe Stunts: Carl Ciarfalio Sound Effects Editor: Charles Maynes ADR Editor: Bob McNabb Makeup Artist: Toni G Main Title Designer: Mike Allred Executive In Charge Of Production: Donna Smith First Assistant Director: Fernando Altschul Stunts: Eric D. Howell Casting Assistant: Ethan Flower Script Supervisor: Carol Banker Second Assistant Director: Louis Shaw Milito Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Michael C. Casper Set Costumer: Roseanne Fiedler Costume Supervisor: Dana Kay Hart Foley Artist: Diane Marshall Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Daniel J. Leahy Location Manager: Ralph B. Meyer Sound Designer: Harry E. Snodgrass Key Makeup Artist: Brigette A. Myre Foley Mixer: James Bolt Sound Editor: William Hooper Sound Recordist: Charlie Ajar Jr. Sound Editor: William Jacobs Costume Design: Dana Allyson Music Supervisor: Kathy Nelson Color Timer: Dennis McNeill Title Designer: Dan Perri Orchestrator: Don Nemitz Stunts: Jake Crawford Prosthetic Makeup Artist: Crist Ballas Supervising ADR Editor: Norval D. Crutcher III Assistant Sound Editor: Samuel Webb Negative Cutter: Gary Burritt Assistant Sound Editor: Michelle Pleis Boom Operator: Anton Herbert Production Coordinator: Lisa Bradley Music Supervisor: Jeff Saltzman First Assistant Editor: Richard J. Rossi Location Manager: Bob Medcraft Art Direction: Sue Savage Cableman: Matthew Magrattan Second Second Assistant Director: Shari Nicotero Assistant Editor: Paul Kieran Hairstylist: Sherry Heart Sound Mixer: Jose Araujo Casting Associate: Dee Dee Wehle Assistant Editor: Elisa Cohen Hair Assistant: Kristin Mosier Movie Reviews: JPV852: Only the second time seeing this (last was probably in the early 2000s on DVD) and thought it was okay but guess like others, this has grown on me. Laughed throughout even when the dialogue wasn’t the greatest, but I have an appreciation...

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@maurafreakinisles — Hello, there!

16: a Netflix series that’s your favorite? Sex Education — Oat Cake is my fave ♥️

21: your first celebrity crush? Shannen Doherty Brenda Walsh, Rene Mosier, and Prudence Halliwell told me to be a lesbian.

38: what’s the meaning behind your url? Megalodon fascinates me to no end. AKA I like big sharks and I cannot lie.

Thanks for asking!

Mallrats will be released on limited edition Blu-ray on Setpebmer 29 via Arrow Video. The two-disc set features three cuts of the 1995 comedy: theatrical, extended, and the TV cut. Robert Sammelin created the new cover art.

Written and directed by Kevin Smith (Clerks, Dogma), the cult classic stars Jason Lee, Jeremy London, Shannen Doherty, Claire Forlani, Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, Michael Rooker, Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith, and Stan Lee.

Mallrats' theatrical and extended cuts of been newly restored in high definition with the original DTS-HD MA 5.1 surround audio, approved by Smith and cinematographer David Klein. The TV cut with overdubbing of the profanity has been newly assembled with the original stereo audio.

It also includes a fold-out poster featuring replica blueprints for “Operation Drive-by” and “Operation Dark Knight” and a collector’s booklet featuring new writing by Philip Kemp. Special features are listed below.

Disc 1 features:

Theatrical cut of the film

Extended cut of the film

Introduction by writer-director Kevin Smith (new)

Audio commentary with director Kevin Smith, producer Scott Mosier, archivist Vincent Pereira, and actors Jason Lee, Ben Affleck, and Jason Mewes

Interview with writer-director Kevin Smith (new)

A tribute to producer Jim Jacks by director Kevin Smith (new)

Interview with actor Jason Mewes (new)

Interview with Cinematographer David Klein (new)

Hollywood of the North - Animated making-of documentary featuring some of the film’s Minnesota crew members (new)

Erection of an Epic: The Making of Mallrats – Archival retrospective with cast and crew

Deleted Scenes – Director Kevin Smith and archivist Vincent Pereira discuss deleted scenes and sequences originally cut from the film

Outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage

Cast interviews from the set

2005 Q&A with Kevin Smith

“Build Me Up Buttercup” music video

Stills galleries

Theatrical trailer

Disc 2 features:

TV cut of the film

Introduction to the TV cut by writer-director Kevin Smith (new)

Stills gallery of the comic books featured in the opening sequence

Easter eggs

Simultaneously dumped by their girlfriends, comic book obsessive Brodie (Jason Lee) and best friend TS (Jeremy London) plan to ease the pain of their losses by taking take a trip to the local mall. Amongst shoppers, they discover the mall is being used as the venue for a dating show, in which TS’s girlfriend Brandi is the star. Hatching a plan to win back their significant others, Brodie and TS enlist the help of professional delinquents Jay and Silent Bob to hijack the gameshow in a bid to win back Brandi. Meanwhile, Brodie carries out his own mission to make good his relationship with Rene (Shannen Doherty), who has attracted the attentions of his nemesis Shannon (Ben Affleck).

Mallrats ♥ Generazione X ♥ Shannon Hamilton ♥ Rene Mosier  ♥

Shannen Doherty Will Return as Rene in Mallrats 2: Twilight of the Mallrats

Shannen Doherty Will Return as Rene in Mallrats 2: Twilight of the Mallrats

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Kevin Smith has revealed some new information about Twilight of the Mallrats. Another major character in the View Askewniverse is going to have a child in the sequel, according to Smith. The director has revealed that Shannen Dohertywill be returning for the movie, reprising her role as Rene Mosier. In the first installment, Rene and Jason Lee’s Brodie were in a relationship, and Smith…

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HoF Virginia Beach Showdown!

Teen/Senior Solos/Duets/Trios

Note: * Northern Force dances won’t be uploaded at all unless requested, even then they’ll be unlisted.

Links to be added as I post the dances!

Teen National League Solos

Champion - Kayla Beardslee, Danceland II SoD - Rise Up

1st Runner-Up - Kylee Nowak, Thomas Dance - Clockwork

2nd Runner-Up - Sarah Dietrick, Thomas Dance - The Reach

Alexa Sandman, Charlotte Dance Alliance - Chandelier

Hanna Lloyd, Encore - All Shook Up

Colin Akin, Time to Dance - Prisoner of Decision

Anna Nimmer, Barb’s - Wake Up Little Sparrow

Teen American League Solos

Champion - *Lydia Hafeman, Northern Force - Blackships

1st Runner-Up - Kaylah Harris, Studio One - He Loves Me

*2nd Runner-Up - Mackenzie Williams, Northern Force - Set Sail

Payton Krueger, Essence Dance - To Be Torn

*Paige Thurner, Northern Force - Nature Boy

*Emily Nguyen, Northern Force - Organs

Grace Luiso, Rhythm Dance Co - New Dorp New York

Senior National League Solos

Champion - Unsteady (Emma Artnak, Thomas Dance Studio)

1st Runner-Up - Klavierwerke (Elizabeth Mantey, Studio One Dance Company)

2nd Runner-Up - Last Leaves of Autumn (Meredith Hill, Thomas Dance Studio)

Body Gold (Jami Fofana, Barb’s)

Unbroken (Abigail Mosier, April SoD)

Senior American League Solos

Champion - Wild in the Wind (Justine, WCSOA)

1st Runner-Up - This is Not the End (Marissa, Northern Force)

2nd Runner-Up - Look Out (Kendra, Rhythm Dance Co)

Remedy (Natalie, Northern Force)

Speech (Emily, Rhythm Dance Co)

I Was Here (Ellie, Renee Johnson’s)

Alaska (Sarah, Northern Force)

Creeks (Riley, Northern Force)

Teen National League Duet/Trios

Champion - Drop Your Guard (Thomas Dance)

Uneven Odds, Barb’s

Sing, Danceland II SD

Good Luck, Next Level

Bench for Two, Thomas Dance

Teen American League Duet/Trios

Champion - Breakaway (Renee Johnson’s)

Criminal Intent (Renee Johnson’s)

Take Care (Studio One)

The Axis (Thomas Dance)

Libertango (Studio One)

Senior National League Duet/Trios

Champion - Do You Remember, Thomas Dance

If You Wait, Barb’s

Wherever You Go, Extravadance

Three Bedroom House, Eleve

Senior American League Duet/Trios

*Champion - Lucky, Northern Force

Arbakkin, Renee Johnson’s

I Won’t Complain, Studio One

Mallrats

Last year I was alerted that Arrow Video was releasing a special 25th Anniversary BluRay of the 1995 Kevin Smith cult classic, Mallrats (trailer). I was not familiar with Arrow Video before, but after browsing their catalog, it appears they specialize in Criterion-esque special editions and restorations for films that may not receive the prestige critical acclaim the average Criterion release does. I remember seeing the “spot the sailboat” comic book ads for the film around its release but missed it during its brief theatrical run. It was not until catching the TV cut of Mallrats off ABC around 1997/98 that I was first introduced to Kevin Smith’s works. I already elaborated on my history with Smith’s films in my review for Jay and Silent Bob Reboot last year, so I will not drone on about that again except to say that both Clerks and Mallrats are my two favorite Kevin Smith films. I believe this will be my third time buying it on video. The original collector’s edition DVD received a lot of early buzz from DVD review outlets on how to nail a suite of special features and for having one of the best early DVD commentary tracks. I then upgraded to the 10th Anniversary edition DVD with a bonus extended cut and new anniversary interviews and other bonus content. This BluRay keeps most of the early bonus feature content and adds in a bunch more I will be detailing soon, but for now, I imagine you want to hear about the actual Mallrats movie.

The succinct way to explain it is how Kevin Smith does it in his four-word elevator pitch, “Clerks in a mall.” Essentially it boils down to the film’s two leads, TS (Jeremy London) and Brodie (Jason Lee), getting dumped by their girlfriends Rene (Shannen Doherty) and Brandi (Claire Forlani) in the opening scenes. The duo decides to recover from their sorrows by hitting up their favorite spots in the local mall, where they run into their exes and attempt to win them over with some help from fellow mallrats Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Kevin Smith). Naturally, TS and Brodie have some opposition to overcome to win back their loves in the form of Brandi’s father and local bigshot, Svenning (Michael Rooker), and head mall security guard La Fours (Sven Thorsen). When I first saw this film on TV around 1997/98, it hit at the perfect time when I was in ninth grade, and I was likely within a few years of the last wave of kids where going to the mall was THE thing to do with friends when you asked: “Hey, want to go and hang out somewhere!?” Mallrats captures the spirit of killing time in the mall with nice little asides debating which food stands are really part of the food court, whining over the latest exhibit clogging up the showcase area of the mall, standing in line for celebrity autographs and gleefully beating up eagerly anticipating the Easter bunny.

When I first experienced the film around age 14, I had no idea what Jay and Silent Bob were talking about with their gratuitous weed jokes. Still, they had a hilarious demeanor about them as they delivered their lines, and they instantly won over 14-year-old Dale. Brodie seemed like the coolest cat with his countless wisecracks throughout the film. Jason Lee and Kevin Smith both went on to say in the bonus interviews that despite the film’s initial theatrical failure, Jason Lee’s performance caught a lot of eyes and opened the door for him to bigger and better roles. It would behoove me to acknowledge Mallrats has the best of the dozens of Stan Lee movie cameos. It is more of an extended cameo where Lee says more than his usual five-to-ten words of dialog and instead has a full scene with Brodie when he bestows his wisdom of true love to Brodie to motivate him to win over Rene. Lee is legitimately good in the scene, so much so that Marvel Studios had his Mallrats cameo referenced during Lee’s cameo in Captain Marvel.

Arrow Video did a bang-up job packing in a ton of extras in this two-disc BluRay set. There are now three cuts of the film included. The first disc has the original theatrical cut, while the second disc has the extended cut that released with the 10th-anniversary edition and now also includes the TV cut, which is full of a ton of awesomely bad overdubs of expletives. Smith recorded a new introduction to the TV cut highlighted with a fun story of why Mewes’s dubs are so godawful. I would recommend passing on watching the Extended Cut, as it mostly restores the film's original opening, which features a series of longer opening scenes where it takes a while for Brodie and TS to get dumped, and for the movie to eventually find its way into the mall. Instead, I would recommend watching the hour-long archival bonus of the deleted scenes that has Smith and Vincent Pereira explaining why the scenes did not work and have a good time on why they remained on the cutting room floor. I did make sure to re-watch the original DVD commentary track again with Kevin Smith, Jason Lee, Ben Affleck, Jason Mewes, and Scott Mosier. They are all nonstop entertaining throughout, remembering their time with the film while Fargo was also filming down the street and how Team La Fours fought to get credited in the movie. It is probably up there with UHF being my favorite commentary track, so make sure not to skip over it! New extras for this BluRay are highlighted by a new 12-minute intro from Kevin Smith retelling his highs and lows of the production. My Mallrats Memories is a new 30-minute interview with Smith recollecting his time on the film and how he assembled the cast and crew, and what lead to landing Stan Lee in the movie.

Mr. Mallrats: Tribute to Jim Jacks is Smith’s eulogy to his recently deceased producer on this film, and he gives a loving history of how Jacks went from movie fan to having a successful career in the business. Blunt Talk is a new ten-minute interview with Mewes recounting his early acting career and how he did not consider himself an actor until people started recognizing him from Mallrats. Hollywood of the North is a new ten-minute animated doc with periphery crew members who have many production stories about shooting in the Eden Prairie Center Mall and dealing with complaints from the mall owner. There is a physical blueprint insert which is a perfect recreation of Jay’s blueprints shown in the film of how he plans to take out La Fours. Also new are two hours of raw dailies compiled together. I did not watch it in its entirety because the quality is very raw, like worse than VHS SLP raw, but it was still fun to jump around in bits throughout it and see the cast and crew chatter before and after filming. I didn’t mean to deep dive this much into the bonus materials, but I believe I have covered almost all of the new content, but trust me, there is a lot more bonus archival content from previous DVD releases, so rest assured View Askew fans that there are several hours of extras to sink your teeth into. Every time I watch Mallrats every several years, I cannot help but get clued in better to some of the jokes and dialog that went right over my initial viewing as a teenager. Thankfully, the film has aged well, and I enjoyed it as much as I initially did in the 90s. I have a good feeling if you’re a View Askew fan or mostly a fan of Smith’s earlier works, then you probably already have this Arrow Video BluRay in your collection. However, for others on the fence wondering if this edition is worth upgrading to, I can safely vouch that Smith and Arrow Video spared no expense to ensure this BluRay is packed to the gills with new (and archival) content to make sure you get your money’s worth!

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Twilight of the Mallrats: Kevin Smith Teases New Plot Details

Twilight of the Mallrats: Kevin Smith Teases New Plot Details

At the beginning of the month, Kevin Smith spoke with ComicBook.com’s Chris Killian in a new edition of Talking Shop, and discussed his long-awaited Mallrats sequel. The director confirmed he’s writing a part for Ben Affleck and also revealed this week that Shannen Doherty will appear in the upcoming movie, reprising her role as Rene Mosier from the original film.In the original movie, Rene was…

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The next time someone says trans people shouldn’t get to play sports, send them this.

For about a week before the 2018 Boston Marathon, news outlets around the country were busy freaking out about the idea of transgender athletes competing.

Specifically, the worry seemed to be that trans women (people who transitioned from male to female) would have an unfair advantage over cisgender (non-trans) women. Right-wing commentator and anti-trans ideologue Ben Shapiro painted the decision as a type of slippery slope that will eventually lead to the abolition of gender categories as a whole, saying, “Biological women will never win a marathon — ever — in history because men are faster than women on average.”

Do Shapiro and others skeptical about the idea of trans women competing with other women in sporting events have a point? Not really.

I finally found a few minutes to write a bit, in my own words, about all this media coverage around trans women running #BostonMarathon. https://t.co/2obqBd5kgs #runchat pic.twitter.com/wNoc5A0a9p

— Amelia Gapin (@EntirelyAmelia) April 14, 2018

If trans women have such an advantage, why haven’t there been any truly dominant trans athletes? Because they don’t.

A few years back, I wrote a fairly detailed breakdown of trans athletes’ fight to be able to compete in the sports they love for Vice Sports. The article, “Heroes, Martyrs, and Myths: The Battle for the Rights of Transgender Athletes,” centered around Minnesota’s struggle to determine how to handle trans athletes. But the research remains relevant whenever these sorts of controversies arise — which, sadly, is pretty often.

The argument goes like this: Because cisgender (or those who identify with the gender assigned to them at birth) boys and men are typically stronger and faster than cisgender girls and women, transgender girls and women should have to compete against cisgender boys and men.

But this argument leaves out the important fact that trans girls and women are not the same as cis boys and men, especially trans girls and women who’ve undergone hormone replacement therapy.

In 1976, a trans tennis player by the name of Reneé Richards wanted to compete in the women’s division at the U.S. Open. At the time, a number of people argued that she had an unfair advantage and would dominate the women’s circuit.

A quick look at the stats shows that’s not the case. Prior to her transition, Richards competed in the men’s division, where she was fairly mediocre (two wins, five losses). Post-transition, competing against women, she was … also fairly mediocre (66 wins, 110 losses).

A 1977 photo of Renee Richards on the tennis court. Photo by Gaffney/Liaison.

Since then, a handful of openly trans athletes have surfaced, almost all with the same “unfair advantage” bogeyman attached to them. Trans mixed martial arts fighter Fallon Fox was never as dominant as people warned (to date, she has a career record of four wins and one loss), never making it to the UFC. In fact, in Fox’s only fight against a fighter who would eventually compete in the UFC, she was knocked out in the third round.

There are no trans LeBron Jameses dominating the WNBA or trans Cristiano Ronaldos racking up Women’s World Cup victories. There’s a good reason for that: Despite concerns, trans women really don’t have an athletic advantage.

Hormones play a big role in determining what sort of advantage an athlete has — or doesn’t have.

“Research suggests that androgen deprivation and cross sex hormone treatment in male-to-female transsexuals reduces muscle mass,” said Dr. Eric Vilain, professor and director of the Center for Gender-Based Biology and Chief Medical Genetics Department of Pediatrics at UCLA in a 2010 report. “Accordingly, one year of hormone therapy is an appropriate transitional time before a male-to-female student-athlete competes on a women’s team.”

In other words, after about a year on hormones, pretty much any advantage a trans woman might have had will be wiped out.

Golfer Mianne Bagger became the first trans woman to qualify for the Ladies European Tour in 2004. She never won a pro tournament. Photo by Fabrizio Villa/AFP/Getty Images.

This is why an increasing number of entities are establishing reasonable rules when it comes to determining a trans athlete’s eligibility. The NCAA and International Olympic Committee both require that trans women undergo hormone replacement therapy before competing in women’s divisions.

Anti-trans policies aimed at trans women often wind up creating situations where actual advantages exist — for trans men.

In both 2017 and 2018, high school wrestler Mack Beggs took home the state championship in the girls division. Many say Beggs had an unfair advantage, and they’re absolutely right: Beggs is a trans boy who takes testosterone to treat his gender dysphoria. He wanted to compete against other boys, but a Texas state rule says that athletes must compete against the gender listed on their birth certificate.

Beggs was left with an impossible decision: compete against girls, end medical treatment, or quit the sport he loves. He chose to compete. After all, it’s not his fault that ridiculous rules forced him into a division where he doesn’t belong, and he really shouldn’t have to stop his medical treatment or quit a sport just because of it. Trans athlete Chris Mosier came to Beggs’ defense on Twitter.

Mack Beggs is a just kid who wants to compete in the sport he loves. Texas gave him 2 options: wrestle with girls or quit. He wrestles.

— The Chris Mosier (@TheChrisMosier) February 25, 2017

Originally, The Federalist, a hard-right anti-trans blog argued that Beggs should compete against other boys — because they thought he was a trans girl (emphasis mine):

“There’s also a distinct athletic advantage for men who transition to women and play on high school and collegiate teams. It’s so clear one would have to be blind not to see how fraudulent this is, given men’s innately greater physical strength compared to women. Transgender male-to-female boy Mack Beggs made waves earlier this year because he won two girls’ wrestling championships in Texas. It’s easy to see why, as a person born male, complete with the testosterone and build of a biological boy, he might have an advantage over female competitors in wrestling.“

Once they realized they’d accidentally made the point advocates for trans rights had been making, the site quickly tried to revamp its argument, saying it wasn’t about “innate” characteristics at all, but the advantage or lack thereof that hormone replacement therapy offers:

“There’s also a distinct athletic advantage for men who transition to women and play on high school and collegiate teams. It’s so clear one would have to be blind not to see how fraudulent this is, given men’s innately greater physical strength compared to women. Female-to-male transgender Mack Beggs made waves earlier this year because she won two girls’ wrestling championships in Texas while taking testosterone. It’s easy to see why testosterone injections might give someone an advantage over female competitors in wrestling.“

(Again, emphasis mine up there. Also, a note that the Federalist’s style guide appears to call for the intentional misgendering of trans people, which is why Beggs is referred to as “she” here.)

In other words, many of those who make these types of arguments against trans people competing in sports clearly aren’t doing so in good faith.

As for the Boston Marathon, those worried about trans women dominating the women’s division will be relieved to know that no, a trans woman did not win.

Yet another false alarm in the never-ending quest to “chicken little” the oncoming trans-athlete-apocalypse. In all seriousness, though, huge congrats to Desi Linden, who, while not trans, is an amazing athlete and the winner of the 2018 Boston Marathon.

Desi Linden won the women’s division at the 2018 Boston Marathon. Photo by Scott Eisen/Getty Images.

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Renee P. Mosier, Certified Health Coach & Personal Trainer

Renee P. Mosier, Certified Health Coach & Personal Trainer

Welcome to our January Spotlight Series. What better way to start the New Year than with a certified health coach and personal trainer! Recently I heard that “becoming a better person” is the #1 New Years’ Resolution for 2017, and right behind in the #2 slot is getting healthy and in shape. With our crazy lives of working and family commitments it does make it hard to eat right and find time to…

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