Once and for all
A month ago the National Women’s Law Center announced:
Once and For All: This Is Why We Support Trans Women and Girls in Sports
It’s a nice touch, that “once and for all” – like a fed-up parent to a whiny child persistently demanding ice cream right before dinner. They frame themselves as the adults and feminists who know that men are not women as bratty stubborn won’t shut up toddlers.
In this blog, we are going to debunk—once and for all—some of the biggest lies we’ve been force fed by fake feminists.
Lies? Force fed? Fake?
This is, remember, the National Women’s Law Center, yet they talk to us like this.
Lie #1: Trans women have an unfair advantage in sports.
First off, the small number of trans and intersex girls and women athletes have NOT demonstrated any categorical “dominance” or overwhelming advantage.
Oh I see…no categorical dominance or overwhelming advantage. It’s just mild cheating, so it’s ok. Is that it? They’re going with that?
Second, this notion that trans girls have an overall competitive advantage in sports also implies that every single cisgender woman is physically inferior, which feeds into sexist stereotypes and pits women against women.
Oh do shut up. That ship sailed long ago. They might as well say the notion that women have an advantage in the ability to make new humans feeds into sexist stereotypes. Men can’t make new humans; that’s not a stereotype but a reality.
Finally, this notion overlooks the fact that class and money are often responsible for competitive advantages in sports (i.e., access to private coaching, better facilities, better sports equipment, and specialized training).
No it doesn’t. Of course it doesn’t. The claim is not that the male advantage in sports is the only advantage there is, it’s just that men have an advantage in sports. That last one is incredibly feeble for a bunch of lawyers.
Lie #2: Trans women will take opportunities away from cis women.
We have SO much to say on this point.
First, there are actually very few trans people in competitive sports—and the success of those trans people has, for the most part, been exaggerated to perpetuate transphobia.
So a little bit of unfairness to women and girls is fine.
They are so lost.
If you’re going to make an argument which ought to rest on truth and principle, slipping in “it doesn’t happen a lot” is a fatal flaw. It tacitly admits that the truth and principles behind what you’re advocating are weak.
If we think the authorities in Iran should stop punishing women for not wearing a hijab, reassuring them that they can repeal the law because don’t worry, most of the women in Iran will dress properly and they’ll hardly even notice the ones who don’t undercuts women’s freedom from constraint. Now it’s a numbers game. How many women flaunting their uncovered heads should it take for the modesty laws to come back? How many transwomen would have to dominate sports for NWLC to admit that yeah, they were wrong so now let’s ban them from women’s teams? 2%? 10%? 50%? 90%?
The truth is that they’re not justifying a law, they’re using a stalling tactic. If, in 5 or 10 years time, there’s no possible way to deny that TW are indeed taking over women’s sports, the gender ideologues will find a way to celebrate that and pretend they never said a damn thing about how TW are just a negligible blip on the radar, be a sport and let them play. It’ll be “girls born with natural gifts belong there.” Hypocrites.
From Wikipedia, s.v. National Women’s Law Center, citing annual reports from 2013–2016:
For some reason, the latest annual report made public by NWLC is the one for 2015– 2016, which can be found linked from this page.
I note that Bayer Pharmaceuticals is in the list of donors who gave $100,000 and above. One of their products, Androcur, is a hormone medication used as a feminizing treatment for males.
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America is listed simply as PhRMA. They are a lobby group, reportedly. Their donation was in the $5,000 – $9,999 bracket.
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer gave between $25,000 & $49,999. They sell spironolactone, a testosterone suppressant, under the trade name Aldactone.
Another donor in the $5,000 – $9,999 bracket, Agile Therapeutics, apparently offers ‘pelvic and gender health physical therapy’ to help patients having problems after ‘gender-affirming surgeries’.
The list of donors is a long one, and there may well be more on the list who are making a nice thing out of the transitioning craze.
I do wonder why National Women’s Law Center hasn’t posted any annual reports for 2016–2017, 2027–2018, 2018–2019, etc etc. They have posted annual financial statements up to 2022, but those don’t include the names of donors.
My latest comment has vanished into thin air, just like the other one a few days ago.
My chief point: National Women’s Law Center has been receiving donations from pharmaceutical companies (Bayer, Pfizer and possibly others I don’t recognise, also lobby organisation PhRMA). This is evidenced by their latest Annual Report (2015–2016). Both Bayer and Pfizer sell products aimed at ‘transitioners’.
Once and for all – Fantastic! When the tripe presented is refuted, we’ll finally be clear of this madness.
It recognises the reality of sexual dimorphism. How does this ‘pit women against women’, aside from the trivial observation that some women are on both sides of recognising this reality?
Followed the link at the top of this piece to the site. It provides a farrago of statements which IMHO are arguments AGAINST having separate sports for each sex. Men should be able to compete as men against women in every domain: tennis, basketball, football (all codes)… You name it.
Though they probably would concede that when playing against women, men who want to be accpted as women should dress in womens’ clothes.
Omar, exactly, I have trouble imagining that they don’t realize this.
“Inferior” requires a reference; inferior to what?
Tall women have an advantage over short women in basketball. I don’t think acknowledging this fact feeds into sexist stereotypes, because it’s talking about two groups of women. I don’t think it’s pitting women against women, because it’s factual, and if it is wrong it can be disputed with evidence. It doesn’t say that short women can’t play, it just says they are less likely to get spots in high-level teams because of the likely performance difference. It doesn’t say that short women are “inferior” in some global sense, just that they are at a disadvantage in basketball.
“Transwomen”, with male physical characteristics, have an advantage over women in basketball. Why does NWLC say this feeds into sexist stereotypes? If they think it’s the same as tall women versus short women, why would it be sexist stereotyping to say that one group of women have a competitive advantage? They must recognize that they’re talking about men, and they claim saying these men (who claim to be women) have an advantage over (actual) women is saying women are inferior to men. I cannot see a way to make this claim without implicitly acknowledging that “transwomen” are in fact men.
And, if they are in fact men, the acknowledgment of competitive advantage does not pit “women against women”. If they are not in fact men, then it doesn’t play into sexist stereotypes. I don’t see how both claims can be made here.
Sackbut, are you trying to make sense of trans claims? ;-) Now that is an exercise in futility.
NightCrow @ 2 – I found it, it’s released from prison. I don’t know why it was held: it has two links but that normally doesn’t trip the mechanism. Sorry! Do keep telling me if it happens again so that I can rescue.
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