Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Any supposed costs.

I see trans women as real women.

Good for you. Now go ahead, date one. Are they still “real women” for you in this context? You’re happy to do girl dick? You’re expecting women and girls who know that TiMs are men to accept and submit to the presence of “girl dick” in their locker rooms: you should be willing to share in that acceptance too.

What you’re saying automatically in the argument…is you don’t believe these people are women.

Yes, and? Here’s your daily reminder that they’re not women; never have been, never will be. You might be willing to lie, but don’t expect others to follow suit. Endless repetition will not make it so.

Would Rapinoe embrace a transgender woman on the U.S. women’s soccer team, even if that woman took the place of someone assigned female at birth? “Absolutely,” she says.

How about some other hypotheticals? Ones that don’t involve engagement of her crippled empathy module. Let’s make it a little more personal.

What if that trans identified male took her place on the team? What if TiMs had kept her from playing at all? Would she be so sanguine about that, or is it only other women and girls she’s willing to sacrifice, not herself? Okay, how about if she had to play against a team that fielded a TiM? How about an entire team of TiMs? Would that be fair? Would she “see” and “feel” the fairness of the logical conclusion of her stance? Would she still be on board with that, or is she ready to think twice (or at all) about her position?

If I recall correctly, the US Olympic Women’s Soccer team was beaten by a boy’s high school team at an exhibition match. What if American Olympic officials had decided to drop Rapinoe’s team in favour of the high school boys who had beaten them? What if the officials had told the boys they could all “identify” as girls and become the US Olympic Women’s Soccer Team? For the duration of the Olympics. Afterwards they could go back to being boys again, because gender fluidity is a thing, right? How would Rapinoe have taken that? Would she have shouted “Brava!” and stood on the sidelines along with the rest of her team in exactly the same way she’s condemning other girls and women to stand aside, bow out, and bow down to males claiming to be female?

Who knew that being a role model for girls and women was so much less fulfilling than being a Quisling?