Who might be stakeholders?
The thing about this is, it’s about women’s sport, of course, but it’s also about the bizarre shocking surprising enraging utter indifference to women and our rights that it reveals.
“the athletes that would be most directly” affected by making a subset of men eligible for women’s sports, “namely trans athletes and/or athletes with sex variations.” Not, you see, women. Women aren’t as directly affected by allowing men to be “included” in their sports. Why aren’t they? Because they don’t matter. They’re not really people. They’re sort of quasi-people, fractions of people, lesser people. Inferior, to put it bluntly.
It is quite breathtaking.
With all due resepct, and there’s no respect due,
WHO THE FUCK DO THEY THINK THEY ARE?
It never ceases to amaze me; the ease with which any given subset of humanity can rationalise its way through life. Though I don’t follow this trans bullshit all that closely, I think it should be around about now that some theologically inclined trans-galah declares it to be God’s will that men compete in womens’ sport and take out all the prizes, maybe with a Bible quote or three. When it happens, it will probably make it onto a front page or two; maybe onto the evening TV news. That way I might find out about it.
According to this Daily Mail article:
This sounds like significant improvement. I am confused as to whether this article is talking about the same document referred to in the OP.
We all know that women’s sport has always been the poor cousin. Literally. Worse funding, second rate coaches, fewer tournaments, no prizes, poor media coverage. Despite that women have strived to improve and create high quality offerings that warrant, that demand a fair slice of funding, excellent coaches, great events with superb media coverage. And now, NOW, that they are on the brink of doing so, suddenly blokes want a slice of it. The response of traditional gate keepers is not to defend the gains made by women, no. It’s to display the utter contempt they have always held women’s sport in. The tendency to lump it into the ‘other’ category distinct from elite male sports. That is literally what this document does. It de facto redefines women’s sport as an ‘other’ category. Infuriating, sickening, wrong.
I can’t see this as anything other than a product of malice and contempt. Towards women. I know I should strive to be a better person, but given that this ruling (and too many others like it) has been given at the behest of, and for the benefit of TiMs, it’s hard not to feel anger towards anything “trans” when I hear the word. I’m tired of being fed lies by people who not only should, but must know that what they’re saying is utter bullshit that results in conditions that are punative and unfair to half the fucking human race. Not that this sort of treatment is anything new, but the smug condescension and wall-to-wall gaslighting are breathtakingly, chillingly evil. There can be few good intentions left at this point, just cruel, gleefull spite.
As much as Trump and other right wing populists emboldened racists and gave them permission to say the quiet parts out loud, the trans “rights” movement has given encouragement and cover to misogynists to an even greater degree, and on a global scale. The speed with which this malignancy has spread is truly frightening, and I’m not even a woman.
I wish I could disagree with any of that.
My knee-jerk reaction to this is “Why the fuck do “human rights advocats” get a say in this?” That’s because my default assumption is that any “human rights” organizations getting involved in this are going to put their thumb on the scales against women. So many have been captured or have sold out that it’s safest to assume that they’re going to push the trans line until I am pleasantly surprised otherwise. Alas, I’m yet to be surprised. I wonder if any of these organizations have any comprehension of the reputational damage this stance has caused, and how much this will cost them in future fundraising, and any legitimacy or authority with which they might have spoken on issues not touching upon trans “rights.” Certainly trans activism has gained more from these groups capitulation than the organizations themselves have benefitted from the association. The relationships are not symbiotic, but not really parasitic either. It’s more like “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” in that the host looks much the same, but behaves with a new goal, emphasis, and purpose under the cover of its original remit.
I wonder that a lot about the ACLU. And Planned Parenthood. And the National Organization for Women.
I should have made clear the title of the Daily Mail article: “Olympic chiefs introduce ‘monumental’ transgender guidelines to keep elite women’s sport ‘fair’ after being criticised for claiming there should be ‘no presumption of advantage’ for trans athletes”.
YNNB @ 7
The point there is that human rights advocates have already been involved, and the input from scientific and medical experts has not previously been sought. Under the circumstances, I don’t think there is political will to discard the input from human rights advocates, but at least they are also looking at science and medicine, finally.
It looks like an attempt to please everybody, but as such it does seem to pay attention to the rights of women and to the science. Maybe.
I knew they had their fingers in the pie to start with; it’s that initial involvement I was actually wondering about. Looking through the lens of “inclusivity,” they were bound to “problematize” the “exclusion” of TiMs regardless of the science, or fairness to women.