We hear people saying
Helen Webberley aka Gender GP lets us know how profoundly confused (aka stupid) she is. Just in case we didn’t already know.
Every time this topic comes up, the conversation sounds painfully familiar. We hear people saying that it’s not fair for trans women to compete in women’s sport. That’s the sentence that gets all the airtime, but what’s missing from that conversation is just as important, if not more so.
We almost never hear people ask whether it’s fair for cis men to compete against trans men.
Yes she actually typed that, and hasn’t yet deleted it.
Tomorrow, she’ll ask “whether it’s fair for twentysomething males to compete against toddler males”.
IOW Is it SAFE for women to play on men’s sports teams? Depends on the sport but I’d say, No, not usually.
Therefore
It is not SAFE for women when men play on women’s sports teams.
For some this is an abstruse obscure abstract idea, which just means their brains have turned to mush.
It’s much simpler than that. It’s not a whole sentence, but just one word that is AWOL. What’s “missing from that conversation” is the word “male”. Use this one correct word in place of “transgender” athlete, or “transwoman” in this discussion, and in the stories reporting it, and things become clear and the supposed “complexity” of this issue vanishes, because the blatantly grotesque unfairness of men competing against women becomes obvious and indefensible. That is exactly why that one little word is studiously avoided by those keen on screwing women over. They know exactly what they’re doing, and why they’re doing it.
Far too much airtime is taken up by those blathering on about “inclusion.” Far too much attention is paid to the poor men being “excluded” from women’s sport, and that their desire should override fair play and safety for women.
In related news, Nebraska passed a bill to keep ‘trans women’ (men) from competing in women’s sports. Good step. They removed the provision that would prohibit men from using women’s restrooms.
The person who insisted on removing that is 85, and I think he’s being primaried, so the next session (which is in 2 years) may finish the job.
Meanwhile, women and girls have to pee in bathrooms where men and boys intrude to take selfies, take photos of women, or just plain stomp all over women’s boundaries.
Has there ever been a single documented case of a so-called transman being denied the opportunity to compete in women’s sports? Because that is a necessary logical stand for trans activists to make if their ideology is to be consistent.
Trans men (women) who take testosterone might be prohibited from participating in women’s sports, because they are juiced, taking performance enhancing drugs. They would have to decide which matters more: taking T to appear male, or competing in women’s sports.
The issue of men (“cis men”) participating on teams with “trans men” — I. E., women who pretend to be men — doesn’t come up because the women (“trans men”) competing on a men’s team pose little to no danger to the male athletes. I might maintain the view that a woman taking a spot on a men’s team away from an actual man is unfair. The difference is that a trans woman (man) has a perfectly good men’s division to play in, where a trans man, if taking T, is ineligible for the women’s division. The woman taking T has nowhere else to go. It could be that inability to play sports is just the natural consequence of her choice to take T.
If a transman is taking T to a point where they are unable to compete on women’s teams, then they likely are in the permitted range for being on men’s teams (I believe there ARE rules against male athletes taking testosterone to amp up their performance; if so, then the same rules would need to apply to transmen). If the transman is able to compete while in that range, more power to ’em.