As transgender rights debate spills into sports, fights for the right to compete

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[–]Spikygrasspod 51 insightful - 2 fun51 insightful - 1 fun52 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

I like how they frame it as a ban of people competing in the category 'consistent with their gender identity' rather than 'inconsistent with their sex'.

There are no 'gender identity' categories in sports. Otherwise they'd need to check the gender identities of everyone competing. And I guess we GC types wouldn't be allowed to compete at all, since many of us deny having gender identities at all.

[–]sisterinsomnia 24 insightful - 1 fun24 insightful - 0 fun25 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

This is such an important point! The separate categories are for two different body types and not for two different sets of gender identities. Indeed, separate bathroom/toilet facilities are also based on the differences in the two body types.

[–]Spikygrasspod 27 insightful - 2 fun27 insightful - 1 fun28 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Yep, it always helps to look at the reasons why women might need something separate. Sometimes it's about bodies, sometimes it's about socialisation, sometimes it's about class. Sometimes it's about all of those together. When transgendered males say they need or deserve access to women's spaces, because they're "women", they're using a new definition of "womanhood" that is totally incapable of justifying those spaces in the first place. They hope you won't notice the mix up, though.

[–]MezozoicGay 14 insightful - 6 fun14 insightful - 5 fun15 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

There 100 genders, so must be 100 leagues in sport for each.