It’s unfortunate the specific sports debate is occurring under the current administration whose policies give permission to trample on human rights. The finer points of a civil conversation are lost in a cloud of hate promotion.
You have described the issue well. I believe that trans people deserve all of the rights and protections the rest of us enjoy. I completely understand the concerns about the biological/physical differences between those born male or female and the advantages someone born male might have over someone born female in sports. I have a trans niece. My wish for her is that she be treated with the respect that all young people deserve. I don't know the solution to the sports question, but the politicians who have whipped up the hatred of trans people to use this issue that impacts a very small group of people have hurt everyone. The hatred of trans people reminds me of the way gay people were treated in the early 80's. Hatred is not acceptable.
nobody is born male or female. those are terms that get assigned. there is no evidence to suggest any blanket advantages that trans girls have over cis girls in terms of performance or strength, especially when they havent gone through testosterone puberty. y'all are just bigots fearmongering about trans girls' bodies.
trans girls are not being treated with respect, or "like everyone else", when people like y'all misgender them, lie about their bodies, fearmonger about them as somehow cheating or predatory. you are terrorizing children and that is a violation of their civil rights.
Ida, please no bullying try and be polite in the conversation here. Here this isn't a place for getting mean with people. I understand you seem to feel very strongly about these issues, but if you can't be nice you will have to leave.
i wasn't "bullying". you are using cissexist language to promote segregationism and using pseudoscientific claims without citation to misgender and fearmonger about trans girls. which frankly is not nice, hence my criticism. if you can't accept correction or criticism, don't publish.
even in your response, you are relying on fearmongering about me, acting as if a comment from a trans woman is threatening somehow, and as well you are using the misogynist trope of talking about my "feelings" rather than engaging with the substance of my response.
It’s unfortunate the specific sports debate is occurring under the current administration whose policies give permission to trample on human rights. The finer points of a civil conversation are lost in a cloud of hate promotion.
You have described the issue well. I believe that trans people deserve all of the rights and protections the rest of us enjoy. I completely understand the concerns about the biological/physical differences between those born male or female and the advantages someone born male might have over someone born female in sports. I have a trans niece. My wish for her is that she be treated with the respect that all young people deserve. I don't know the solution to the sports question, but the politicians who have whipped up the hatred of trans people to use this issue that impacts a very small group of people have hurt everyone. The hatred of trans people reminds me of the way gay people were treated in the early 80's. Hatred is not acceptable.
nobody is born male or female. those are terms that get assigned. there is no evidence to suggest any blanket advantages that trans girls have over cis girls in terms of performance or strength, especially when they havent gone through testosterone puberty. y'all are just bigots fearmongering about trans girls' bodies.
trans girls are not being treated with respect, or "like everyone else", when people like y'all misgender them, lie about their bodies, fearmonger about them as somehow cheating or predatory. you are terrorizing children and that is a violation of their civil rights.
Ida, please no bullying try and be polite in the conversation here. Here this isn't a place for getting mean with people. I understand you seem to feel very strongly about these issues, but if you can't be nice you will have to leave.
Sorry. My intent was to support transgender people.
then support full inclusion, not eugenics-based nonsense pretending that somehow we can have our civil rights without full inclusion
and "what most people think" is only another stage in which some minority is having its civil rights violated by an ignorant majority.
i wasn't "bullying". you are using cissexist language to promote segregationism and using pseudoscientific claims without citation to misgender and fearmonger about trans girls. which frankly is not nice, hence my criticism. if you can't accept correction or criticism, don't publish.
even in your response, you are relying on fearmongering about me, acting as if a comment from a trans woman is threatening somehow, and as well you are using the misogynist trope of talking about my "feelings" rather than engaging with the substance of my response.
shame on you for promoting lies, misgendering, discrimination and segregation of marginalized girls.