I see this, and all the other comments taking it to be in support of the transphobes, but… it works equally for pro-trans against transphobia. Gender’s a construct; what makes it ok to judge people for not conforming to the “standard model” construct?
There are some situations where a decision has to be made, like are trans women allowed to participate in woman sports where physical strength is a big factor? Idk what the right answer is, but we have to decide that as a society and not just on an individual level. Imo gender should not be the deciding factor in the first place, but that’s just my opinion.
In sports I feel like they should be using things like weight class or strength as opposed to using gender, I mean we don’t segregate by race (at least not anymore) even though there were seemingly valid reasons to do so with that at the time since it wasn’t really used for those reasons, it was used because it was easier to limit their funding that way and could even keep them from competing altogether in some cases.
I don’t think there isn’t an issue at all, but I also don’t think the issue is as big as the pearl clutching conservatives make it out to be, especially considering that they never offer solutions, they just want to exclude trans people when making these arguments.
So in short I feel like we could come up with a better grouping system that groups based on strength and weight, while also taking into account the fact that differences in strength and weight are also kind of the point of sports. I’m not sure exactly how though since I’m not really in sports.
I see this, and all the other comments taking it to be in support of the transphobes, but… it works equally for pro-trans against transphobia. Gender’s a construct; what makes it ok to judge people for not conforming to the “standard model” construct?
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Exactly, people should be able to live their lives without being judged for what gender they are or how they present.
There are some situations where a decision has to be made, like are trans women allowed to participate in woman sports where physical strength is a big factor? Idk what the right answer is, but we have to decide that as a society and not just on an individual level. Imo gender should not be the deciding factor in the first place, but that’s just my opinion.
In sports I feel like they should be using things like weight class or strength as opposed to using gender, I mean we don’t segregate by race (at least not anymore) even though there were seemingly valid reasons to do so with that at the time since it wasn’t really used for those reasons, it was used because it was easier to limit their funding that way and could even keep them from competing altogether in some cases.
I don’t think there isn’t an issue at all, but I also don’t think the issue is as big as the pearl clutching conservatives make it out to be, especially considering that they never offer solutions, they just want to exclude trans people when making these arguments.
So in short I feel like we could come up with a better grouping system that groups based on strength and weight, while also taking into account the fact that differences in strength and weight are also kind of the point of sports. I’m not sure exactly how though since I’m not really in sports.