Gregg R Thomas

Unseen wrote:
While one often hears “But they aren’t even 1% of those competing in women’s sports” as if the ethical issue is one of numbers. “It’s fair as long as there are no more than x% of them” is wrongheaded on its face. Wrong is wrong. Unfair is unfair.

That’s true.  I heard a feminist on the radio saying that trans people make up only a…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Unseen and Simon and Robert, et al, A couple of observations and questions: The whole Rachel Dolezal story would never have existed if no moral or social or even metaphysical significance were given to “race” or “color.”.

I think in the case of Ms. Dolezal, she likes black culture, sympathizing, epathizing, and admirin…[Read more]

Just to be clear, I’m opposed to trans women having most (perhaps with a few exceptions) getting the same opportunities to an education, to jobs, and to housing, for example. There are cases, such as faciities designed to house and protect women who’ve experoienced abuse, where their very understandable concerns must be taken into account. And in…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
After all. if women and people of certain physiotypes were not just historically, but today are intrinsically in all circumstances victims of systemic oppression, why do some people want to be members of those victim categories?

I imagine it’s irrelevant to a man who is born a woman psychologically.  Rachel Dolezal maybe…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
I think you are the one oversimplifying, because unsaid on your part is that we should just accept that split, but to do so is unjust to the biological females, because it’s not just sports.

I agree with you:

Simon Paynton wrote:
Frankly, it would end a lof of trouble and hostility if trans people could have their own category in s…

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Simon Paynton wrote:

Unseen wrote:
When someone expresses the belief that they are not the gender biology gave them, like most beliefs, it is either true or false is it not?

It’s not as simple as that. Sex is biological but gender is psychological and social. So someone can be born male and have a female psychological and social identity.

What a…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
When someone expresses the belief that they are not the gender biology gave them, like most beliefs, it is either true or false is it not?

It’s not as simple as that.  Sex is biological but gender is psychological and social.  So someone can be born male and have a female psychological and social identity.

_Robert_ wrote:
Never understood the connection between sports and “scholar”-ships”.  You are great at tennis, so we’ll pay for your chemistry degree. Some kid, good at chemistry gets denied.

I will have to assume that the one-two puncher gets taken on because of their added value. Rightly or wrongly, success in sports is good for the revenue…[Read more]

When someone expresses the belief that they are not the gender biology gave them, like most beliefs, it is either true or false is it not? Maybe the best approach is to offer these folks therapy.  How far do we give in to this “I identify as” phenomenon. For example, do you remember Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who identified as black to such…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
Frankly, fuck the trajectory of sports. The commercialization, and the “win at any cost” and constant effort at cheating.

Right now, the main controversy isn’t at the pro level. It’s at the high school and college level.

My daughter didn’t want to go pro (as a swimmer? pretty much not a “thing”). She just wanted a scholarship and…[Read more]

We’re all sympathetic with trans people, but it’s a difficult dilemma to resolve satisfactorily.  In the UK it’s just been decided legally that for some purposes, such as women’s safe spaces, a person’s biological sex is what matters and not their social and psychological gender.  So, in effect, we’ve decided that for some purposes, you can’t c…[Read more]