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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
This is an issue of conflicting rights. The right of natal girls and women to not face unfair competition in athletics, vs the right of transgendered women to compete in their preferred category. As much as you want to believe there’s a simple answer to that question that all informed people of goodwill can agree on, there isn’t. People like Pepsi have made up their mind (natal girls and women have to stop being such babies and suck it up). Others disagree - including regulatory bodies that have engaged in extensive research and consultation. That’s only a ‘weak appeal to authority’ if you think science and consultation with athletes should play no part in establishing fairness in sports.
Do you believe the 50 per cent of the Canadian population who support the right of same-sex couples to adopt children, but who believe athletes should compete in the sex they were assigned at birth, are ignorant bigots? How small, exactly, is your circle of moral virtue?
Actually, I know the answer - it’s very small. And it will always be very small. No matter how our society progresses and changes over the coming decades, you will always recalibrate your expectations so you can sneer at the 80 per cent of normies. Because victimhood and resentment at wider society is your whole identity.
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Well that's exactly it, isn't it? So why are politicians the ones to make the decisions based on what they hear from one side of the discussion? If it's not a simple answer, should they not defer to experts? And perhaps there will be many answers, depending on the sport. Which is why governing bodies should be engaging experts to make the decisions. But that's for professional sport. Anything below that DOES NOT MATTER. Stop pretending it does. You are actually removing opportunities and growth experiences from everyone by banning one segment of humanity.
And frankly the public has been so thoroughly misled on the subject that differing them for any decision is no different than asking your toddler if you should go with a fixed or floating mortgage. So any public opinion pablum that gets trotted out is just a reflection of that misinformation.