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Obviously I had to follow that link.
So let’s read the abstract:
Throughout 2019, retired athletes Martina Navratilova (tennis), Sharron Davies (swimming), Kelly Holmes (athletics) and Paula Radcliffe (marathon) all spoke publically about what they perceive to be the unfairness of trans women competing in women’s elite sport.
What they “perceive to be” the unfairness of men competing in women’s sport (elite or otherwise) – ah yes it’s wholly subjective, and downright whimsical. Why would anyone think it’s unfair for men to compete in women’s sport? Why would anyone think it’s unfair for adults to compete in children’s sport? Why would anyone think it’s unfair for non-disabled people to compete against disabled people? It’s all so silly, isn’t it.
These successful athletes, all with a history of growing and promoting women’s sport, were simultaneously celebrated for sharing their thoughts on a complex issue, and labelled transphobic for expressing anti-inclusive and transphobic views.
Growing women’s sport? It’s not a tomato. And the issue isn’t complex – it’s quite simple to see why men should not compete in women’s sport. And they may have been celebrated and called terfs at the same time, but it was by different people, so the “simultaneously” is kind of silly. “Both” would have been clearer. The views of course were neither “anti-inclusive” nor “transphobic.”
Navratilova, particularly, despite her long history of fighting for inclusion and to end homophobia in sport, faced a severe backlash for expressing anti-trans rhetoric.
But what kind of “inclusion”? Inclusion of whom? She doesn’t have a long history of fighting for the inclusion of men in women’s sport; why would she, why should she? And she didn’t express “anti-trans” anything and what she said was not mere “rhetoric.” This Sarah Teetzel person is a terrible writer and not much of a thinker.
Womanhood is by its nature exclusive. Entry is limited to girls, and then only after an apprenticeship from 18 to 21 years.
I’m not sure where anyone thinks they can just slip in by whining to be valudated.
“…that woman can be seen as acting from jealousy, fear, or ignorance.”
Fine with me if anybody thinks I am jealous or fearful or ignorant because I know what is fair to women and that is keeping MEN, even men who claim to be women, out of our spaces and sports.
Jealousy? I’d easily cop to that. Women have earned the right to jealously guard that which they’ve gained through bloody, tearful struggle.
Fear? This is also an easy admission. It is reasonable to fear the loss of rights, of privacy, of security, of the opportunities that our mothers, aunts, sisters fought for and that everyone takes for granted now, because our memory capacity increasingly makes goldfish look like prodigies.
Ignorance? Ah, there you’ve got me. I am ignorant. I’m ignorant of how logical contradictions are okay, of justification for demanding that women and girls admit males into their private spaces, of reason that a rapist’s comfort should be more important than his victim’s trauma, of what makes the sterilization of homosexual teenagers suddenly sacrosanct, and of why respect for truth is no longer virtuous. My ignorance of these I freely admit.