Quote Originally Posted by catherine View Post
I love anyone for who they are and how they choose to identify themselves. However, I don't love laws that favor the biology of males over the biology of females. I do not think MTF trans people should participate in female sports. Why? Because their biology makes them better suited for certain physical skills. Because someone identifies as a female doesn't mean they are in every sense of the word. If this sounds like I'm betraying my progressive leftist roots, that's OK. Derrick Jensen, the environmentalist and culture philosopher, has pretty much thrown his career and credibility into the toilet because of his opinions on this, which makes him "transphobic" in the minds of some, but I think that common sense has to carry through all the implications for accommodating multiple gender scenarios--both biological and psychological--into account fairly.
There is a podcast I heard some months ago, maybe it was an NPR piece, that tried mightily to show male physiques do not really impact success at all sports anyway, but you had to really get into the weeds and lots of detail to follow it. And of course there is the real problem of hormone testing in sports because some women have super high levels of testosterone and they test out of their range and are blocked from participating. So it’s not a slam dunk by any means.

If I were Derrick Jensen, I’d stay away from the topic because it is very black and white, in the eyes of most people.

I think it is hilarious that politically super righty evangelicals who wouldn’t let their kids read Harry Potter books are aligned with super lefty trans activists who wont read Harry Potter books.