“DyeStat records show that Miller would rank 120th in the 55-meter dash, in the Connecticut State Boys Track division (the division Miller ran with just prior to joining the Girls Track division in 2018). And Yearwood would rank 195th.”
Just prior. Shop for the division you can win, and if you need to say you’re a girl, do so.
Like the women’s shortlists in the UK where they now have to add men who identify as women – even temporarily. So what does that mean? You identify as a woman by day so you can get shortlisted for a job intended to help even out inequities? Then at night, you go home as a man? Or is it seasonal? Hour by hour? One year you’re a man, the next you’re a woman, then flip back?
People who claim to identify as women even though they are males with respect to the bodies they had upon entering this world and still have now…
People who claim that they really are women and lose few opportunities to self-righteously pontificate as though they glory in supposedly possessing feminine status…
…all the while feeling not the slightest qualm about treating actual women with the utmost contempt, exploiting every male-derived advantage they retain in order to cheat women out of athletic laurels that they themselves could not possibily win if they competed against other men who do not falsely portray themselves as women…
This depressingly ongoing fashionable story is so far beyond dumbfounding, so far beyond brazen hypocracy, and ao far beyond out-and-out obscenity that words (probably including these) utterly fail when confronted with this the dimensions of this utter madness.
I read about one person in the UK, a police officer, who is his male self on some days, and his female alter ego on other days, including different names and uniforms, depending on how he “identifies” that particular day. How more transparently false can it be to claim, “I’m really a woman, I’ve always been a woman, my body is a female body,” if it can be picked up and put down at will? It shoots transgender theory, not in the foot, but fatally through the heart or brain.
If your theory of transgenderism doesn’t have an answer to the question, “what about someone disingenuously claiming a gender for material advancement or other ulterior motives,” then you’ve got a problem. And “oh, but those will be rare” is not a real answer.
It’s been dramatically illustrated to us all recently just how far some people will go to gain admission to the most prestigious colleges: fraudulent test scores, faking diagnoses of learning disabilities, photoshopped images of the student as an athlete in a sport they’ve never played. Is it really so far-fetched to think that sooner or later, some enterprising high schooler who is a middle-of-the-pack male athlete will “come out” as a woman, instantly become a state champion and record holder, and exploit those “achievements” to gain admission to Prestigious University? I would bet money on it. After all, the student could simply “detransition” after accepting the offer — what is PU going to do then, rescind the offer and risk a gender discrimination suit? And if abuses like that become public, it’s not going to help the trans cause, so they ought to be just as concerned as anyone else.
I confess to having a tear in my eye, watching that.
It’s so strange, isn’t it, that we as a social species can almost be defined by our sensitivity to unfairness. We’ll go to unfathomable extremes at the mere suspicion of perceived, abstract and arbitrary unfairness, such as delight in the execution of people who have committed crimes that don’t affect us personally at all.
But then certain very obvious, stark unfairness – almost always with women as the recipient – are somehow just totally fine. I’ve tried to analyse this specific example – of women having to compete against male-bodied athletes – as though it’s a case of conflicting senses of unfairness. ie that it’s unfair for women to have to compete against men, BUT it’s also unfair that men can’t compete as their desired sex. And maybe a sort of dissonance occurs which confuses us so much that we end up siding with the squeakiest wheel. Or something.
But it doesn’t work, does it, because a) we actually live in something that passes for reality (just watch the video of that race) and b) the aforementioned point that it’s almost always women who suffer because of it.
In our local paper just yesterday there were two stories about alleged rape. One featured a young woman who alleged she was raped by a man. The comments from the public were largely sympathetic but there were several people (men) angry that the perp had been named when it wasn’t 194% certain that she wasn’t just making it up. The other was about a young man who alleged he was raped by a man. The circumstances were almost identical. But of course all the comments on the latter story were hugely sympathetic and there was no suggestion at all that he might by lying. There were pledges of almost tearful undying support to the male victim that were not extended to the female victim.
This is gross unfairness. I still say that extreme sensitivity to unfairness is one of the most recognisable human traits but it just doesn’t seem to work when we’re being unfair to women. This is the only explanation that works for our unfair forcing women to compete with men in the kinds of competition where male bodies have a distinct advantage. I mean, there are presumably plenty of trans woman chess players but you don’t see triumphant headlines about the first trans woman to win a chess tournament, do you (insert other activity where men have no innate advantage over women here)? That has to be significant.
I know, I know, we all know this. I’m venting. I needed to get it off my chest.
There was this last month. UK rapper Zuby broke several British women’s weightlifting records while “identifying” as female as a way of showing the unfairness of allowing male-bodied athletes to compete against women.
You saw this article on her video and the general topic?
http://thevelvetchronicle.com/selina-soule-connecticut-state-championships-the-equality-act/
“DyeStat records show that Miller would rank 120th in the 55-meter dash, in the Connecticut State Boys Track division (the division Miller ran with just prior to joining the Girls Track division in 2018). And Yearwood would rank 195th.”
Just prior. Shop for the division you can win, and if you need to say you’re a girl, do so.
How utterly unfair.
Like the women’s shortlists in the UK where they now have to add men who identify as women – even temporarily. So what does that mean? You identify as a woman by day so you can get shortlisted for a job intended to help even out inequities? Then at night, you go home as a man? Or is it seasonal? Hour by hour? One year you’re a man, the next you’re a woman, then flip back?
People who claim to identify as women even though they are males with respect to the bodies they had upon entering this world and still have now…
People who claim that they really are women and lose few opportunities to self-righteously pontificate as though they glory in supposedly possessing feminine status…
…all the while feeling not the slightest qualm about treating actual women with the utmost contempt, exploiting every male-derived advantage they retain in order to cheat women out of athletic laurels that they themselves could not possibily win if they competed against other men who do not falsely portray themselves as women…
This depressingly ongoing fashionable story is so far beyond dumbfounding, so far beyond brazen hypocracy, and ao far beyond out-and-out obscenity that words (probably including these) utterly fail when confronted with this the dimensions of this utter madness.
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I read about one person in the UK, a police officer, who is his male self on some days, and his female alter ego on other days, including different names and uniforms, depending on how he “identifies” that particular day. How more transparently false can it be to claim, “I’m really a woman, I’ve always been a woman, my body is a female body,” if it can be picked up and put down at will? It shoots transgender theory, not in the foot, but fatally through the heart or brain.
Sackbut – I hadn’t seen that; thank you.
If your theory of transgenderism doesn’t have an answer to the question, “what about someone disingenuously claiming a gender for material advancement or other ulterior motives,” then you’ve got a problem. And “oh, but those will be rare” is not a real answer.
It’s been dramatically illustrated to us all recently just how far some people will go to gain admission to the most prestigious colleges: fraudulent test scores, faking diagnoses of learning disabilities, photoshopped images of the student as an athlete in a sport they’ve never played. Is it really so far-fetched to think that sooner or later, some enterprising high schooler who is a middle-of-the-pack male athlete will “come out” as a woman, instantly become a state champion and record holder, and exploit those “achievements” to gain admission to Prestigious University? I would bet money on it. After all, the student could simply “detransition” after accepting the offer — what is PU going to do then, rescind the offer and risk a gender discrimination suit? And if abuses like that become public, it’s not going to help the trans cause, so they ought to be just as concerned as anyone else.
It’s not only not so far-fetched, it’s not far-fetched AT ALL.
I confess to having a tear in my eye, watching that.
It’s so strange, isn’t it, that we as a social species can almost be defined by our sensitivity to unfairness. We’ll go to unfathomable extremes at the mere suspicion of perceived, abstract and arbitrary unfairness, such as delight in the execution of people who have committed crimes that don’t affect us personally at all.
But then certain very obvious, stark unfairness – almost always with women as the recipient – are somehow just totally fine. I’ve tried to analyse this specific example – of women having to compete against male-bodied athletes – as though it’s a case of conflicting senses of unfairness. ie that it’s unfair for women to have to compete against men, BUT it’s also unfair that men can’t compete as their desired sex. And maybe a sort of dissonance occurs which confuses us so much that we end up siding with the squeakiest wheel. Or something.
But it doesn’t work, does it, because a) we actually live in something that passes for reality (just watch the video of that race) and b) the aforementioned point that it’s almost always women who suffer because of it.
In our local paper just yesterday there were two stories about alleged rape. One featured a young woman who alleged she was raped by a man. The comments from the public were largely sympathetic but there were several people (men) angry that the perp had been named when it wasn’t 194% certain that she wasn’t just making it up. The other was about a young man who alleged he was raped by a man. The circumstances were almost identical. But of course all the comments on the latter story were hugely sympathetic and there was no suggestion at all that he might by lying. There were pledges of almost tearful undying support to the male victim that were not extended to the female victim.
This is gross unfairness. I still say that extreme sensitivity to unfairness is one of the most recognisable human traits but it just doesn’t seem to work when we’re being unfair to women. This is the only explanation that works for our unfair forcing women to compete with men in the kinds of competition where male bodies have a distinct advantage. I mean, there are presumably plenty of trans woman chess players but you don’t see triumphant headlines about the first trans woman to win a chess tournament, do you (insert other activity where men have no innate advantage over women here)? That has to be significant.
I know, I know, we all know this. I’m venting. I needed to get it off my chest.
latsot, on that note: https://ofliberalintent.com/womens-writes/works/2018/3/2/day-2
There was this last month. UK rapper Zuby broke several British women’s weightlifting records while “identifying” as female as a way of showing the unfairness of allowing male-bodied athletes to compete against women.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rapper-zuby-identifies-as-female-to-smash-weightlifting-record-98b7086ml
https://twitter.com/zubymusic/status/1100348562041462784?lang=en