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Transgender Rights

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Depending on what one means by “civil rights” - yes, they aren’t rights and people (of all types) shouldn’t be guaranteed them.

No one should be obligated to treat people equally, especially since they aren’t equal.
This the the simple truth many do not want to accept.

"Equality under the law" isn't a blank check to force people to spend money to humor other people's imagination or genetic quirks or pretend men are women or the opposite.
Trans people have never actually argued that there's an entitlement to jobs, housing, etc etc. What we do argue is that we should not be discriminated against on the basis of our gender identity, in exactly the same manner that the Civil Rights Act bars discrimination in employment and public accommodations on the basis of race, sex, religion, etc.
No, you just argue others have to spend money specially for your group when you don't actually have a physical disability, and not use centuries of language/norms because it upsets you.

Normality isn't oppression and civil rights don't entitle you to force other people to pretend things aren't what they are.
 
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CarlManvers2019

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You can blame that cancerous pile of shit known as "intersectionality"; it ensured that most trans people who are visible are almost always assholes.

I recall that there's another "Syndrome" that so happens to involve wanting to be back in the Civil Rights Era WITHOUT actually having to deal with the oppression and actual physical and financial threats
 
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People should be able to discriminate based on any of those things. Though barring discrimination based on gender identity becomes even more problematic when people are allowed to make official distinctions between males and females.

I think you might be interested in reading about the legal differences in anti-discrimination laws in Utah versus other states. They were a compromise passed with the endorsement of the Church of the LDS and a very sensible one too, which of course enraged activists outside of Utah. But it enjoyed broad social support in the state. In essence, they do not include public accommodation as a protected area.
 

Nitramy

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I recall that there's another "Syndrome" that so happens to involve wanting to be back in the Civil Rights Era WITHOUT actually having to deal with the oppression and actual physical and financial threats

It's this "if you're not woke, you're a bigot" line of thinking that makes sane people not want to outwardly say they're for trans rights.

Is it possible to be both "live and let live" when it comes to trans people but still think intersectionality is the biggest pile of shit ever conceived of? Pretty sure it is.
 

ShadowArxxy

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I would point out in return that the concept of intersectionality arose specifically as a counterpoint to second-wave feminism arguing that feminism was the end-all, be-all of civil rights, that sexism against women was somehow (lots of angry handwaving) the root of all discrimination whatsoever, and that therefore everyone should support feminism and only feminism, which being the fundamental root of all bigotry, would magically solve everything else once they overthrew the patriarchy.

I find it severely ironic that "intersectionality" has become a conservative catchphrase for, "Civil rights we don't like", when it in fact echoes conservative criticism of crazypants feminism.
 

Nitramy

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The sad thing here is that you're clinging onto the "intersectionality" theory as if it contained every solution to ensure that trans people would have the same rights as non-trans people; even more so that you think that being intersectional and trans is some kind of package deal (pro tip: IT'S NOT).

It doesn't. It's just balkanization prettied up for millennials to swallow hook, line and sinker.
 

ShadowArxxy

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I made no such argument. Indeed, I didn't even remotely imply a position on the matter as I don't think it's relevant to the issue at hand; I'm simply mentioning relevant context since people decided to bring it up.
 

LordSunhawk

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The Boot is noticing that this is becoming a bit of a derail about intersectionality. That is a very interesting topic in its own right so deserves a thread of its own. Please create one and move any discussion of intersectionality to that thread.

The Boot would like to thank you for your cooperation! And if anybody knows of a new vendor for snazzy laces, please let The Boot know!
 

Nitramy

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I made no such argument. Indeed, I didn't even remotely imply a position on the matter as I don't think it's relevant to the issue at hand; I'm simply mentioning relevant context since people decided to bring it up.

And "patriarchy theory" is also a big load of Marxist shit, so what's the difference? Feminist shit, intersectional shit, all comes from that reeking shitpipe called Marxism.

My point is, nearly everything I've said here is just throwing ideas around regarding transgenderism. It's only the politicized ones that love dragging their pet Marxist bullshit into the equation like a ball and chain.
 

ShadowArxxy

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This the the simple truth many do not want to accept.

"Equality under the law" isn't a blank check to force people to spend money to humor other people's imagination or genetic quirks or pretend men are women or the opposite.

No. While we do not yet fully understand everything about the etiology of being transgender, the scientific and medical evidence firmly refutes that idea that transgender identities are "imaginary", "delusional", or "pretense". There are, of course, elements of gender identity which are social constructs, but that is just as true for cisgender persons as it is for transgender persons.

No, you just argue others have to spend money specially for your group when you don't actually have a physical disability, and not use centuries of language/norms because it upsets you.

Where have I made such arguments, or are you simply attributing the most extreme arguments you've ever heard from any trans person to me personally?

Normality isn't oppression and civil rights don't entitle you to force other people to pretend things aren't what they are.

No, but you seem very keen on arguing that you are entitled to force other people to pretend that things aren't what they are. Because the fact-based reality is that trans women are women, no matter how hard you want to pretend that we are men.
 
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FriedCFour

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No, but you seem very keen on arguing that you are entitled to force other people to pretend that things aren't what they are. Because the fact-based reality is that trans women are women, no matter how hard you want to pretend that we are men.
I'm sorry but no amount of psychology or justification can change the fact that XX is female and XY is male. You can argue that you should be treated as that gender, you can argue you have a disorder that makes you like a woman but you can't say they just are women. Certainly rates of suicide, the fact that the number of self identified trans has shot through the roof, the fact that there are people who change gender for advantages and that they do, ultimately, have the biological sex of male and female means that no, science is not only with trans people and their is no science saying that they are what sex they were born as.
 

CarlManvers2019

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Say, what’s everybody’s stance on Transpeople in sports? Like what happens should a MTF consistently beat most of the Cis-Female competition

Because, pardon me, I think any girls complaining may be saying that males are on average physically better and as such are “sexist” against themselves
 

FriedCFour

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Because, pardon me, I think any girls complaining may be saying that males are on average physically better and as such are “sexist” against themselves
That's just a fact and why we have sex segregated sporting in the first place. The best women athletes in the world just cannot compete with men. Male to female athletes have been shattering records because even the very skin of men and women are significantly different and confer different outcomes.
 

ShieldWife

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No, trans men aren’t men. Trans women aren’t women. Being male or female isn’t a subjective feeling, it is an objectively observable biological fact. It is a fact that experts can study in numerous species that have no psychology at all, some don’t even have brains.

Trans people may well have brain abnormalities that lead them to having a desire to be a member of the opposite sex or even the delusion that they are the opposite sex. That doesn’t make it so any more than any desire or delusion is true.

Now, that doesn’t mean that people who feel unhappy in their own bodies don’t have the right to change them, but this feeling of being the other sex is subjective, it is mental, it does not alter the biological truth of their XX or XY chromosomes.

Regarding athletics: this is why I was saying that discrimination laws are so bizarre, especially in this case. Supposedly no discrimination is allowed, yet institutions can create male and female athletic divisions and can prevent men or women from joining a particular team/league/etc.

If this discrimination is allowed, why make the exception for a biological male who wants to be a woman? If this subjective claim is good enough to break down the biological division for, why can’t any man join a woman’s athletic event and dominate? For every female gold medalist, there are likely hundreds of men who could easily beat her but who couldn’t even make the men’s Olympic team. If biological males (trans women) can compete against females in sports, you might as well just let any man who wants to compete against women do so, which would eliminate women’s athletics entirely.

Yes, men are physically superior to women, at least in most regards. We may be worse at weight lifting, but we are better at child bearing - though by some uncanny coincidence, trans women are both better at lifting weights but worse at bearing children than other women.
 
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ShieldWife

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Why don't they make sports divisions for trans women / trans men?
Physically, a trans man is a woman and a trans woman is a man, at least until they are altered with surgery. So that new athletic division, in addition to applying to only a tiny number of people, would either be an athletic division for people based on their mental traits or an athletic division for people altered by surgery or artificial hormones. In either case, it seems like a very odd idea.
 

ShadowArxxy

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I'm sorry but no amount of psychology or justification can change the fact that XX is female and XY is male. You can argue that you should be treated as that gender, you can argue you have a disorder that makes you like a woman but you can't say they just are women. Certainly rates of suicide, the fact that the number of self identified trans has shot through the roof, the fact that there are people who change gender for advantages and that they do, ultimately, have the biological sex of male and female means that no, science is not only with trans people and their is no science saying that they are what sex they were born as.

You're completely ignoring the arguments and evidence I have provided showing that the biology alone is a great deal more complex than that. While intersex conditions are edge cases, they are "the exception that proves the rule" in terms of the actual science and medicine, which cannot be dismissed in good faith as "just psychology". Insisting that "XX is female and XY is male" as an axiomatic absolute as opposed to a convenient rule of thumb is clearly wrong, given that there are such things as actual successful pregnancy carried to term by XY individuals.

You're also making a rhetorical argument that scientific counter-evidence must exist in some kind of Platonic hypothetical, which is simply not how science works. You can't claim the existence of hypothetical science; you have to actually do the research and/or cite those who actually have.

No, trans men aren’t men. Trans women aren’t women. Being male or female isn’t a subjective feeling, it is an objectively observable biological fact. It is a fact that experts can study in numerous species that have no psychology at all, some don’t even have brains.

What part of all of the science and medicine I've repeatedly brought up makes you think I'm arguing from a standpoint of subjective feelings?

I'm a biologist, and I'm telling you that the biology is more complex than you're insisting. Is it reasonable for society at large to generally run on the grade school simplification? Of course it is, but that doesn't make the edge cases imaginary. It's like the laws of physics -- we use simple Newtonian physics in our day to day lives, but that doesn't make relativistic and quantum physics imaginary or a delusion, they are simply a case that falls outside the everyday for most people.

Say, what’s everybody’s stance on Transpeople in sports? Like what happens should a MTF consistently beat most of the Cis-Female competition

My stance is that the International Olympic Committee and the NCAA both studied the issue extensively in order to set updated policies, and the overwhelming majority of sporting authorities worldwide have followed the IOC's lead on the matter.

The current conclusion of the IOC is that, contrary to stereotype, trans women under hormone treatment have no measurable performance advantage over cis women. The same policy goes for cis women whose natural testosterone levels are higher than the typical female range, although this application was initially held up by a lawsuit charging that the IOC hadn't actually produced any specific evidence that high testosterone women significantly outperformed other women in the first place. The policy was permitted to enter effect once the IOC provided such evidence to the courts, although it was very thin evidence.

All of the arguments against IOC/NCAA policy that I've ever seen ignore the actual studies that went into setting those policies, and simply argue that it's axiomatic that trans women have an unfair advantage. Ignoring the evidence because it goes against what you want is not reason. If you think the IOC / NCAA is wrong on the facts, you need to present actual evidence that this is the case, not just broad-generality claims that "of course trans women outperform cis women".

My stance is, further, that the IOC/NCAA position has been updated several times and that there is no reason to believe that it will not be further updated as the evidence warrants.

Why don't they make sports divisions for trans women / trans men?

Because the IOC / NCAA examination of the medical record indicates that there is no actual need to do so. Trans and intersex athletes under hormone restrictions have no competitive advantage over cis athletes, and there's no significant interest in an 'unrestricted league'.
 
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prinCZess

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My stance is that the International Olympic Committee and the NCAA both studied the issue extensively in order to set updated policies
Err...What?
The IOC hasn't studied anything as far as I've found or seen--at least not in regards to their policies. Maybe they reviewed available literature...But they didn't reference it in their statement or change in policy, and the change very much didn't make the claim you're alluding to--trans women, in fact, in contrast to trans men, still have to participate under specific restriction in regards to their testosterone levels (<10 nanosomethings per liter, I believe). That's...Almost a de facto statement of trans women having performance advantage. The NCAA followed their lead (though they were kind enough to reference literature in their press release changing guidelines...But the sources they use have the below to say).

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―to date, no study has examined the effects of cross-sex hormones on any objective measures of athletic performance...Additionally, no trial has been conducted with transitioned athletes as compared with physically born men and women athletes. As such, there is no concrete evidence to support or refute the position that transitioned athletes compete at an advantage or disadvantage as compared with physically born men and women athletes.‖33 The only study addressing performance measures in a transitioned population used a retrospective design looking at data from the past in a non-athletic population.34

In view of the lack of research conducted to date, substantial new research would need to be undertaken to come to any reliable conclusions and would face the methodology requirement of being able to involve a sufficient number of transitioned athletes –possibly a formidable challenge given the low prevalence of transitioned individuals in the population.35

Whether that presumption of difference is legit or not might be more questionable--the available 'research' on the topic appears to be very limited and, when engaged, a tendency to be...biased (Joanna Harper's 'work' of herself and few others recording their times pre and post hormone treatments and the like and discovering performance decreases is functionally useless when the point of comparison is to women as opposed to male times, and when the sample size is EIGHT). This cluster the science is in is likely why the IOC is encouraging study on the issue.

Of course...The presumption they work off of to achieve <10 nm/l of testosterone as a limit is pretty solid. Men have a biological advantage in terms of this kind of stuff. It's rather silly to assume temporary changes in T levels are the sum total of those differences and that preexisting stuff like bone structure and the like doesn't have lingering aftereffect that the IOC and others are simply too afraid to address because 'not accepting transgender athletes' is a shitty PR story.
Whether that's the case is something there seems to be a need for study on--but the underlying presumption is based on readily-known biological differences, and not--as it is sometimes presented--an attack on trans individuals (though it could be used in such a manner).

Of course, Olympic-level (amd even Collegiate level) competition is somewhat the outlier already in these things--and HS and other lower-level leagues are going to be much more hard-pressed to do blood-testing or anything else. So we also need to account for transwomen who fall outside the IOC's (largely ass-pulled T limit) competing against women who are even more significantly disadvantaged in comparison to those individuals (trans HS track runners made the 'news' recently--something I note only as an example of the level where the concern is harder to account for and more prevalent simply by the nature of how those levels exist at a much more widespread level than Olympic or Collegiate competition).

(Perhaps I am mistaken about the above and the IOC or NCAA based their decision or referenced stuff I haven't heard of--in which case I'd appreciate you referring it to me and apologize for the confusion/criticism).

IOC to fund research of transgender athletes
 

ShadowArxxy

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Err...What?
The IOC hasn't studied anything as far as I've found or seen--at least not in regards to their policies. Maybe they reviewed available literature...But they didn't reference it in their statement or change in policy, and the change very much didn't make the claim you're alluding to--trans women, in fact, in contrast to trans men, still have to participate under specific restriction in regards to their testosterone levels (<10 nanosomethings per liter, I believe). That's...Almost a de facto statement of trans women having performance advantage. The NCAA followed their lead (though they were kind enough to reference literature in their press release changing guidelines...But the sources they use have the below to say).

The IOC didn't commission brand new studies specifically, but they studied the issue in the same way that a court studies an issue -- by interviewing subject matter experts and reviewing the scientific literature. Both of those are absolutely contained within the word "study", so I don't see your actual objection here. Those studies are referred to in their public notes, although not their position statement. This is because at the end of the day, the IOC is a private body setting private rules for a private competition. What they publish is the ruleset, not the reasoning for the rules.

Yes, the evidence is not absolutely definitive. I have consistently made it a point to *not claim so*. But there is, again, no reason to believe that the IOC/NCAA will not continue to update their rules as the evidence shows.

And given that I explicitly stated that trans women participate under hormone level restrictions, I fail to see what claim you believe I'm "alluding to".
 

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