Quote (SBD @ May 4 2021 04:21pm)
Again you're not looking through the eyes of the competitor and you're looking through your own eyes. A talented woman likely does not want a dude dunking on her when shes competing in a woman's league. Sure you can use your anecdotal daughter evidence but id be willing to be if polled competitive females don't want Timmy in the league.
You're the polar opposite of the competitive parents. I don't think either end of the spectrum are good.
I suppose my ultimate answer to this is I'm not larping as a teenager when solving the problem and viewing the problem as an adult who plans programs people actually use. One of the things I manage for example is an intensive outpatient psychotherapy program, and if solving this problem I wouldn't act from a perspecrive of a 16 year old competitor lost in the weeds. Their point of view is valuable but not authoritative. These are education programs paid by dollars for education. This has nothing to do with participation trophies or dreams of reliving high school greatness for those of you who peaked there (lol).
Wanting to plan the best possible programs for everyone isn't noncompetitive, it's just a good job. This exclusionary form of education just promotes the kinds of division that leads to discussions of whether trans people are as human as us to the point we seriously discuss what they can and cannot do.
Earlier in the conversation I said ironically "while we are deciding what they can and cannot do" nobody batted an eye. That is the level of entitlement over others this kind of discourse leads to.
When party A and B start making decisions on what you or your kids can do without consulting you, call me.
I bet nobody here will consider what transgender athletes themselves want, just vicissitudes for the Other here. Any decision without their input would be meaningless. Guys are bringing back the rhetoric used on Jackie Rohinson. Don't think it's intentional but ITS HAPPENING! <que Ron Paul gif>
I also completely get why people feel the way they feel about this. I just don't think installing systemic bigotry is a good solution and kind of a throwback to old America. I'm interested in actual solutions not the cop outs I'm seeing here.
This post was edited by Skinned on May 5 2021 06:04am