Why can’t people
The replies in this posts just proves why LGBT people don’t feel welcome in sport. Such a horrid place our country is becoming. Why can’t people accept others for who they are. Trans women are women and trans men are men
Why indeed? Why can’t people accept men who dislike the gender rules that apply to men for who they are, which is men who dislike the gender rules that apply to men?
In other words, this “for who they are” crap is not necessarily a weapon only against Team Gender Critical. Which is more unreasonable: to think that men who like to simper and pout are still men? Or to think that men who like to simper and pout are in fact women despite that whole male body thing?
I think a better way to “accept others for who they are” is to do just that, rather than to laboriously re-name and re-categorize people who fail to conform to the baroque Rules for their respective sexes.
What the man asking the question meant was actually “Why can’t people accept others for who they say they are,” but perhaps he realized the answers to that are too obvious. (Example: why can’t we accept that Trump has a hard sculpted body when he shows us a photoshop of his head on a hard sculpted body?)
So Martina Navratilova no longer counts as a lesbian?
There is no real LGBT experience in sports, as L, G, and T people have very different experiences (with B people probably similar to L and G).
LGBT people in sport.
L – Play in women’s teams, against other women’s teams.
G – play in men’s teams, against other men.
B – Play in team appropriate according to their sex, against people of the same sex, at least until bonking becomes a sport. :-)
T – Men who Tried to play against other men, but found they were not up to the required standard, so decided to bully their way in to women’s teams.
My work promoted Rainbow Laces Day, saying our sports teams would wear rainbow laces to raise awareness of LGBT equality in sport. So evidently it’s a thing.
@ Roj – yes, that’s how I would read it.
There’s also the weasel-y-ness of the word “accept”. There are many contexts where ‘accepting’ a trans individual’s self-identification is trivial and non-controversial. There’s others, though, where it becomes immensely problematic (and, in some cases, downright dangerous). By lumping it all under one blanket term, RTAs seek to exploit the hell out of getting the camel’s nose under the tent.