I think pretending like there's no difference in the name of equality is noble, but in these conversations it's not helpful.
I do think there is an inherent advantage in a 'late' transitioning adult trans person. (Whatever 'late' means.)
The problem is that the defining line is blurry. We cannot have a subjective decision being made with people's lives, because it definitely leads to corruption and unfairness.
There are a lot of restrictions that we place on athletes, and one of them might have to be that if you begin hormonal transition after the age of X, you cannot compete in international competition. I am no longer eligible to play in the NCAA because I exhausted my 5 years of eligibility. I know it's not the same, but it is a rule instated by a private commission.
I do think there is an inherent advantage in a 'late' transitioning adult trans person. (Whatever 'late' means.)
The problem is that the defining line is blurry. We cannot have a subjective decision being made with people's lives, because it definitely leads to corruption and unfairness.
There are a lot of restrictions that we place on athletes, and one of them might have to be that if you begin hormonal transition after the age of X, you cannot compete in international competition. I am no longer eligible to play in the NCAA because I exhausted my 5 years of eligibility. I know it's not the same, but it is a rule instated by a private commission.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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