Inclusivize all the men
Kirsty Clarke in the Independent saying be more inncloosivv.
Sport is one of society’s most powerful tools for bringing people together and it should be open to everyone, including trans people.
Ok sorry to interrupt after just one sentence but I have to. Sport is open to trans people; that doesn’t mean sport should be open to letting male-bodied trans people compete against women. Everybody participate, yay, but that doesn’t mean throw out all the rules.
However, in recent days, sport has become a divisive issue around trans people’s right to participate.
No it hasn’t. That’s a stupid brainless lie. The objection is to letting male-bodied trans people compete against women.
Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen female athletes speaking out against trans women competing in sport, contributing to an environment of misinformation.
No; against trans women competing against women in sport.
It’s got to be deliberate, this repeated obfuscation. If it’s deliberate, she must know she’s both bullshitting and arguing for something dubious. She should stop doing that.
The conversation is currently being dominated by an overwhelming amount of bullying, minimising people to their physical bodies and using outdated stereotypes and abusive language.
It’s sport. It’s all about physical bodies.
There are several more paragraphs of evasive glurge full of generalities about the joy of sport and inklooozhyun, but not one word about the unfairness of male bodies competing against female bodies. She must know she’s trying to argue for the indefensible.
Just doing her bit and
Are there any parts of trans ideology that don’t rely on deliberate, repeated obfuscation? There’s the conflation of sex and gender, the idea of sex seemingly being randomly “assigned at birth,’ the use of the existence of people who are actually intersex as a smokescreen or fig leaf for unwarranted trans assertions, the equation of disagreement and criticism with “actual violence,” questioning trans assertions being equated with denying trans peoples right to exist, the one way street when it comes to determining the “correct” interpretation of some people’s “lived experience,” the one way street when it comes to depictions and descriptions of violence, threats of violence and, you know actual violence. Here we have the particular concern of the fairness of male bodied individuals cometing against women being wilfully misconstrued as an attack on trans people’s right to participate in sport at all. Is “gender” a fixed thing, or is it “fluid?” Is transness something real, a social contagion, a spectrum, or what? It seems very indeterminate and amorphous to have such furiously held beliefs erected upon it. Throw in the dependence upon good old Cartesian mind-body dualism and the reliance upon traditional sexual stereotypes under patriarchy, and you’re left with little in the way of a good faith argument or even a coherent point of view.
@YNNB:
You make a point that I’ve been thinking about, as well. Intersex and trans are distinct categories, but always seem to get conflated in arguments about “fairness” in sport. In my opinion, different policies about participation in womens’ sports are justified in these two cases. But it is useful to the current trans ideology to trot out Caster Semenya and Dutee Chand in their arguments, because it is more plausibly unfair to exclude them from participating in sports as the gender/sex they have always existed as – beyond mere identification..
Ah, she’s with Stonewall. That explains the drivel.
Somehow she doesn’t offer to clear up any specific misinformation. She just contributes to the environment of emotive inclusive glurge (mot juste, O) that surrounds this subject.
Huh. I had to miss out on dreaming of competing for the Olympics, because I was (and remain) physically weak, slow, and clumsy. In fact, I used to dread P.E., where my weaknesses were painfully obvious to all.
Too bad for me, but that’s life.
And even I never felt that I had “no place in sport,” period, end of sentence. I was no good at any of the things we did in P.E., but I could ride horseback. I enjoyed swimming (non-competitively). I loved trampolines. I was pretty good at badminton.
If trans-identified males want to compete for places in specific teams or leagues or world-class competitions, and they don’t want to do it as their actual sex, let them create their own teams and leagues. Or let them join casual teams that welcome people of both sexes.
Nobody, but nobody, has proposed that trans people have “no place in sport.”
This is a true statement, though. It’s just…who is doing the most bullying? I think…could it be…is it…the people like Rachel McKinnon who thinks people with large men’s bodies should be able to compete against people with smaller women’s bodies?
“Bullying” and “misinformation,” eh? The projection is strong with this one.