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Originally Posted by Makarov
Well, your question sort of misses the point I think. Someone's feelings being hurt because he or she wasn't strong enough or fast enough to make the varsity volleyball team is not remotely equivalent to the social and psychological damage caused by the exclusion and isolation experienced by transgendered persons due solely to their unchangeable and deeply personal characteristic (sexual identity).
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You don't know how important making that volley ball team is to the other girl either. She could have practiced and trained for an entire year to make the team, and be devastated not to, while the trans gendered girl could be kind of disinterested and was simply put on the team because she's taller than all the other girls, and would make a good blocker at the net.
If you're pushing for equality, you have to look at everyone's feeling as equal. You could have a million scenario's and arguments on the issue, and Polak is 100% right. The trans-gendered athletes feeling do not trump those of the other kid.