RE: Trans people & sports
April 5, 2017 at 11:23 am
(This post was last modified: April 5, 2017 at 11:34 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
No one can say that trans women in sport is new. Truth is that we do not know because trans people do not advertise themselves. Transsexuality is not new and the medical establishment has been trying to cure them for an extremely long time. From lobotomies, conversion therapy and electroshock therapy to finally allowing them to transition. The only thing that is new is widespread awareness of gender dysphoria and that is because we now live in the information age and transsexuals find it harder to leave their past behind and live a new life.
Offence needs to be seen in context. Nor has anyone the right to say what someone should and should not be offended by. This is because you do not live their life or experience what they do. A white person can't tell a black person not to be offended by the word nigger because they are no longer slaves or lynch mobbed by the KKK. Men can't tell women not to be offended by a slap on the arse now that they can enter the workforce.
With transsexuals it is one thread after another with cisgendered people debating whether they should have basic human rights. Should medical care be covered by the NHS / insurance companies / given to them when they are children and can avoid puberty. Should they be sent to the jails of their birth gender. Should transsexuals be able to change their birth certificate. Should they be able to get married, or adopt, or even be allowed to pee in safety.
By the time it gets to whether they can compete in sport, it is so irrelevant and affects so few transsexuals, most of whom harm their careers or lose their jobs by transitioning and have personally encountered many forms of abuse, then it becomes hard not to see it as just yet another thread about whether they should even be allowed to exist. Especially when started by someone like Alpha Male. And when they have the audacity to complain they are told not to be PC and stifle debate and that they are overly sensitive for being offended.
All transsexuals want is the same basic rights that everyone else takes for granted.
Offence needs to be seen in context. Nor has anyone the right to say what someone should and should not be offended by. This is because you do not live their life or experience what they do. A white person can't tell a black person not to be offended by the word nigger because they are no longer slaves or lynch mobbed by the KKK. Men can't tell women not to be offended by a slap on the arse now that they can enter the workforce.
With transsexuals it is one thread after another with cisgendered people debating whether they should have basic human rights. Should medical care be covered by the NHS / insurance companies / given to them when they are children and can avoid puberty. Should they be sent to the jails of their birth gender. Should transsexuals be able to change their birth certificate. Should they be able to get married, or adopt, or even be allowed to pee in safety.
By the time it gets to whether they can compete in sport, it is so irrelevant and affects so few transsexuals, most of whom harm their careers or lose their jobs by transitioning and have personally encountered many forms of abuse, then it becomes hard not to see it as just yet another thread about whether they should even be allowed to exist. Especially when started by someone like Alpha Male. And when they have the audacity to complain they are told not to be PC and stifle debate and that they are overly sensitive for being offended.
All transsexuals want is the same basic rights that everyone else takes for granted.
