swimbikefly wrote:
I just got home from my 3.5 y/o daughter’s swim lesson. Two girls, two boys. All the same age. If you don’t believe that boys are physically different than girls, I invite you to come watch the next lesson with me. Just the difference in kicking ferocity will show even the most ardent biology denier.
I think you're replying to the wrong person. SheridanTris is very much in favor of the ruling.
rrheisler wrote:
I don't think you're understanding my viewpoint, then.
I empathize with women who feel under attack from all sides given the state of America. I can understand why they might latch onto this as one of the issues as, well, it's frankly the easiest to "fix" (as opposed to, say, abortion rights).
But that doesn't make it right, either. It's mistargeting, in my opinion.
it's not far off how I felt toward those who voted for Trump for a variety of reasons and beliefs, at least the first time around. I felt their pain, their thought that government had ignored them for too long, and that someone like Trump could fix their issues.
Neither Trump nor Biden have been good for this country. Not sure how voting for either was meant to fix anything other than possibly deter the evil the other was supposed to bring. Seemed to have brought the same things.
But back to the point. I also don't believe you have empathy for the people this protects. Thomas was effectively a doper, the person's advantage against their peers was beyond significant, never should have been allowed to compete with women. You in your position on the board have told people they must "appropriately gender" someone, and often times forcefully. This board treats dopers one way. And that is not well.
Back to empathy. When my mother was in high school, before Title IX there was GAA. GAA governed girls sports if the high school's administrators even cared to fund girls sports. Often they did not. At the collegiate level was the AIAW, which governed women's sports. IFF the college even wanted to support women's sports.
But you're saying that we should just accept these people as they are, well, then we accept them as physiologically enhanced and treat them like we would dopers. They can still do the sport they just cannot compete in the sport. I guess that makes it exercise and not sport. But that is what the fairness argument is about. Protecting the sport for Women.
Proponents of Transgenders in Women's sport say Men should not or can't have opinion because it doesn't effect us. But it does. For many of us have sisters or daughters that if we just opened this up it would effect harshly. On the flip side, keeping Transgenders in gender/sex appropriate categories limits societal harm.
It is not that I don't have empathy with what they're going through, finding oneself is a hard endeavor. We all go through it. But what you're advocating in several posts is about putting g children on puberty blockers, even if only passively. That's definitely child abuse and it should be looked on as such. Children lie every day to their parents about every little thing, they can't figure out what they want or who they are. It is the responsibility of parents to provide structure and to educate them on what they actually are and not even remotely impart their ideology on them. It is legit impossible for a 7 yr old to be a transgender, and yet I hear people say that when I'm at the coffee shop.
Washed up footy player turned Triathlete.