Lester Golden
Nov 1, 2024

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I'll be 70 in February, have low testosterone and play basketball in Porto 4-5x/week with guys 15 to 50 years younger than I am. This includes one local league team with a coach who invited me to train with this team. I regularly shoot their lights out and my nicknames are "sniper" and "o profesor do basquetbol" (and grandpa).

The cultural panic over trans athletes is an expression non-athletes' ignorance of a simple fact: in many sports software often beats hardware. Teenage players with awesome physical gifts regularly make dumb mistakes and expend enormous physical effort with low yield due to lack of court sense and impulse control. If time travel were possible, and I could play the me of 1975, he wouldn't stand a chance.

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Lester Golden
Lester Golden

Written by Lester Golden

From Latvia & Porto I write to share learning from an academic&business life in 8 languages in 5 countries & seeing fascism die in Portugal&Spain in1974 & 1976.

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