{"id":12226,"date":"2026-11-12T01:23:23","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T01:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/?p=12226"},"modified":"2026-11-12T01:23:23","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T01:23:23","slug":"the-seattle-times-says-theres-no-serious-scientific-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/?p=12226","title":{"rendered":"The Seattle Times says there\u2019s \u201cno serious scientific evidence\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Times says there\u2019s \u201cno serious scientific evidence\u201d transgender athletes have an advantage over women. OutKick columnist Matt Calkins challenges that assertion with published research.<\/p>\n<p>The statement appeared in the newspaper\u2019s coverage of Washington\u2019s Initiative 638, a measure restricting girls\u2019 K-12 sports participation based on biological sex.<\/p>\n<p>Calkins cites studies suggesting some strength and muscle advantages gained during male puberty can remain after testosterone suppression.<\/p>\n<p>He acknowledges the research doesn\u2019t all point in the same direction, but questions how the newspaper can dismiss evidence of an advantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Times says there\u2019s \u201cno serious scientific evidence\u201d transgender athletes have an advantage over women. OutKick columnist Matt Calkins challenges that assertion with published research. The statement appeared in the newspaper\u2019s coverage of Washington\u2019s Initiative 638, a measure restricting girls\u2019 K-12 sports participation based on biological sex. Calkins cites studies suggesting some strength and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12228,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12226\/revisions\/12228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}