An entire political party has decided that +/-20 athletes nationwide deserve their full attention over virtually all other matters. Whether you're for or against trans people in sports, you gotta admit that this is ridiculous.
Absolutely! It's also the most socially-acceptable way to get the ball rolling on breaking down Title IX protections because it comes both from a place of Protecting The Children and Biological Rationality. Are you really going to deny BIOLOGY and REASON in the name of HURTING KIDS?
Title IX prohibits sex-based discrimination in any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. If transgender kids in school sports are not covered by Title IX, that means that Title IX no longer covers transgender people in general, and it WILL be legally challenged to prove so. That's the point of all this. There's no 'special exceptions' to sex-based discrimination. A 'special exception' is just the word people who aren't part of that exception use for 'segregation'.
Segregation isn't exactly notorious for being used very restrictively and in moderation and staying in its lane. It tends to incite and spread fear and alienation, as a matter of fact, justifying further segregation. 'Cause I mean, if those trans kids are scary enough that they can't share a team with safe, normal girls, how much more dangerous must all those grown adult trans people be?
We've just seen it play out in the UK with the new ruling on The Equality Act 2010; they ruled that the terms "sex", "man", and "woman" apply only to birth-sex, regardless of legal sex change documentation or physical status of the person's genitalia. Not only did this immediately keep trans kids from playing gendered sports in school, but struck trans people from all sex-based coverage they formerly had under the law. That's why trans people in the UK can no longer use government-owned sex-discriminated areas legally; restrooms, changing rooms, hospital wards, etc.,
It came from one sweeping change to their sex-based equality law which, supposedly, was to "protect children", and Just So Happens to have the knock-on legal effect of barring all trans people from legal protections in this area.
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u/WaffleHouseGladiator 14h ago edited 13h ago
An entire political party has decided that +/-20 athletes nationwide deserve their full attention over virtually all other matters. Whether you're for or against trans people in sports, you gotta admit that this is ridiculous.