DMac wrote: ↑Sat Jul 22, 2023 11:20 am
Did you listen to her?
A HS boy's team beats the best woman's team the country has to offer?
Explain that one to me.
I've been pretty clear on how I feel about it all. Where is the cut off
(no pun intended) with transgenders competing with the gender they
identify with? There have been some stories lately of people who
have transitioned much later in life (wayyyy beyond 10, 11, 12) and
still competed against those of the gender they identify with. How
do you make that call?
I definitely don’t have the answers which means I revert to the primal question of “what is the challenge or problem to be solved here?”
And as an “originalist” (made up but meant to jab at constitutionalist and people who lean too hard on precedent) might agree the answer is:
Helping some small, whatever, size but still human beings and citizens, who are suffering in many cases in an extremely painful and anguishing way, to assimilate more fairly as fellow human beings and citizens in with the rest of us?”
Doesn’t mean let them do whatever they want or freely trample all over everyone else, but the focus should be on that in attempting to solve or answer this question.
Instead it’s, “look at how those weirdos and disgraceful people are abusing our poor children once every four score and seven years which should weight many multiples of any concerns those freaks have with existing on this planet.”
That’s all.
I felt like the Billy Jean King #1 beating a MAN was kind of an overstated joke too as she beat a semi retired due two facades older. It almost struck me as unhelpful to the cause to parade that around. Also why the only way I ever get in WNBA is if my daughter does. They just don’t play above the rim enough.
*Billy Jean King match: before I was born but got all the stories from both parents, an irrational liberal from Long Island and a conservative rural small village born (but with empathy and intellectual curiosity just lacking access) who migrated leftward in his later years which is to say the 2000s (and also had more than a passing but temporal relationship w Jack Kemp randomly and of that type).