RE: The right to mis-define oneself
June 17, 2015 at 1:57 pm
(This post was last modified: June 17, 2015 at 2:01 pm by I_am_not_mafia.)
(June 16, 2015 at 6:14 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I_am_not_mafia, I'm curious how you feel TG people should be treated with regards to things like sports, where they could have an unfair advantage. As I mentioned before, imagine if Jenner, a superior world-class athlete as a man, had competed as a woman. In this case, should she be accepted as a woman because she identifies as a woman? Or should she be prevented from competing as a woman because her physical past would give her an unfair advantage over natural-born women?
Well let's be honest here, this doesn't really affect 99.999999% of the population. It's like the conservative Lords in Britain complaining about a hypothetical situation where some person with a hereditary title may run into legal difficulties if they are then recognised as female by the state.
The whole concept of competing in sport has become such a farce now. It's more down to money, technology and whether you have some kind of genetic abnormality which gives you an edge. And you can only compete in most sports when you are in your physical prime which doesn't give the body time to adapt post-transition. So every case would have to be determined on its own merits. But when you're referring to such a small section of the population, no competitor is actually typical of other members of their own gender.
Frankly it's not an issue I care about.
