Hard to overstate the ‘diabolical dumbness’ of Sarah Silverman’s rant

Sky News host Rita Panahi says it’s almost impossible to overstate how diabolically dumb Sarah Silverman’s rant was scolding people for saying women’s sport should be for women. “Imagine for a second that you’re a female athlete, a weightlifter who has devoted your life to the sport, and then a former male weightlifter decides they’re a woman and starts competing in the women’s division,” Ms Panahi said. “That is the reality for female weightlifters competing and typically losing against New Zealand’s Laurel Hubbard. You see Laurel used to be called Gavin and competed internationally as a male weightlifter before transitioning at the age of 35 and competing as a woman. In 2017 in Melbourne, she competed in her first major international competition and broke a number of national records on her way to winning the women’s over-90kg division.