The irresistible force of women who have suffered for years from grinding injustice in sports programs
meets the immoveable mountain of the right of people who are lots stronger and faster because they are men but have the right to identify as women you bigot.
So glad someone was courageous enough to bring this case.
ReplyDeleteI'll be curious to see if this produces another physicalist standard -- e.g., 'brain imaging shows this is really a girl!' replacing 'muscle mass and testosterone show this is really a boy!' -- or if the courts decide to accept a non-physical standard like "I identify as." I think the temptation will be to look for any kind of a physicalist fig leaf to avoid the chaos that would come from a purely subjective, untestable standard; but then you're telling all these kids they have to each pay for an MRI to prove their eligibility to compete. The subjective standard is cheap (indeed it is free), but it means retasking a lot of Title IX college sports scholarships from biological women to biological men.
ReplyDeleteOnly someone completely infected by the patriarchal Western unwoke mindset would look at a technical definition like brain imaging, or performance, or really any kind of so-called objective individual reality. =Why do you hate transfolk? Make me feel safer.
ReplyDeleteThe continued establishment of a subjective standard will be the death of women's sports. There is no need for equal sports scholarships anymore, as women continue to outstrip men in college addmittance and graduation rates, and no one wants to watch second rate men (trans-women) compete in sports, so all of it would just die- college, pro, and that would probably take down youth as well. Unless the tide turns.
ReplyDeleteI suppose the obvious answer is to eliminate sex distinctions in sport, and just let the most competitive person win.
ReplyDeleteSuits me, but then I wouldn't much care if all publicly funded women's sports died off, or men's either.
ReplyDeleteI'm not convinced there should be any public funding of sports at all, other than a measure of strictly local funding of public facilities for the more common sports, and indirectly through K-12 and college/university athletics programs of the originally conceived variety rather than the extant semi-pro type.
ReplyDeleteThat last would be a pipe dream, but still worth aspiring to.
Eric Hines