Both: What do you think about President Biden's Executive Order?

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[–]MarkTwainiac 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, equality does not mean treating all distinct groups exactly same.

It means acknowledging and accommodating people's differences so that everyone has an equal chance to participate fully in life. Like providing ramps and lifts for wheelchair users; written material in Braille for the blind; captions and sign-language interpreters for those with hearing impairments.

It means having sidewalks for pedestrians, people pushing prams, and wheelchair users; bike lanes for bicyclists; lanes for cars and taxis; and lanes during rush hours for buses exclusively. The TRA position is basically that buses who "identify as" something other than buses should be able to barrel down the bike lanes, the car and taxi lanes and on the sidewalks, too - and they don't cares how much carnage that will cause.

[–]VioletRemihomosexual female (aka - lesbian) 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Women sports was created to include women in sports, not to "exclude men" - because only in this way we received equal opportunity and fair competition, only this way female youth is able to achieve something and become professional athletes.

Same with locker rooms and toilets. In few African countries (like Kenya) there are only unisex toilets, so girls are missing school lessons during periods, so they are getting behind in study. Segregated spaces would be inclusive, to include them into normal school life and process.

And so on. Thee a lot of instances where separation and segregation is done for inclusive reason.