In this episode of Citation Needed, we kick things off with the viral social media feud between Olympic legend Simone Biles and women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines over a male athlete playing on a girls' softball team. We cover the controversy, break down some of the science Biles ignored, and highlight the media’s double standards on the issue of males in female sports.
In the second supporters-only segment, we dive into the unhinged world of peer-reviewed academia with a paper titled—no joke—“My pronouns are fuck ICE,” published in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. This paper is a jargon-drenched call-to-action where identity, activism, and fantasy blur into one. It features students declaring their gender as “prison abolition,” engaging in anti-colonial tea time, and denouncing the colonial violence of gender neutral bathroom stalls that resemble “holding cells.”
