I only watch one sport, but I’m kind of obsessed with it. It’s rugby sevens which is the faster more action packed version of rugby that is now in the Olympics. One of the things I really enjoy about it is that there’s a lot of equality between the men’s and women’s teams. Rugby in general is a very inclusive sport.
In the USA there is now a professional league for sevens. One of the big PR pushes when they were starting this league a few years ago was that they were ensuring that men and women athletes would be paid exactly the same, which was nice not only to do but to call out as a virtue.
Anyhow, this new professional league also features the first time I’ve seen a transgender woman playing in a women’s league for a physical sport like this. I of course didn’t even realize the first few times I saw her play that she was transgender, and while she’s pretty good, she doesn’t particularly stand out. It’s interesting to see the thing that conservatives fear in action and not particularly remarkable. Here’s a short video intro on her: https://youtu.be/KnAzFyWNXSY
I think sex is real, gender ephemeral. But there is overlap in behavior. In many ways the debate is between the evolutionary psychologists and the social constructionists. Using our old, tired, but still incredibly useful Euro-American standards of science, transgender seems more a fad, less a reality. We can be fairly sure of this because of the incredible numbers of supposed trans people who are coming forward, mainly as teens and preteens, who did not exist in the past, even 20 years ago. The cause for this is social transmission. ROGD research has been poo-pooed by trans-advocates but is still pretty real. Another indicator of the ephemerality of trans is the extremely defensive way this movement reacts against any attempt to study the phenomenon objectively. If you look at boy small children and girl small children, you can see that sex-constraints on behavior are more or less real, international, and trans-temporal.
It's not fair for girls and women, some of whom make careers based on sports, to force them to compete with male bodies in most sports. The departure from common sense and from a sense of basic fairness here is worrisome.
I only watch one sport, but I’m kind of obsessed with it. It’s rugby sevens which is the faster more action packed version of rugby that is now in the Olympics. One of the things I really enjoy about it is that there’s a lot of equality between the men’s and women’s teams. Rugby in general is a very inclusive sport.
In the USA there is now a professional league for sevens. One of the big PR pushes when they were starting this league a few years ago was that they were ensuring that men and women athletes would be paid exactly the same, which was nice not only to do but to call out as a virtue.
Anyhow, this new professional league also features the first time I’ve seen a transgender woman playing in a women’s league for a physical sport like this. I of course didn’t even realize the first few times I saw her play that she was transgender, and while she’s pretty good, she doesn’t particularly stand out. It’s interesting to see the thing that conservatives fear in action and not particularly remarkable. Here’s a short video intro on her: https://youtu.be/KnAzFyWNXSY
That's interesting, and heartening, to hear. TY!
I think sex is real, gender ephemeral. But there is overlap in behavior. In many ways the debate is between the evolutionary psychologists and the social constructionists. Using our old, tired, but still incredibly useful Euro-American standards of science, transgender seems more a fad, less a reality. We can be fairly sure of this because of the incredible numbers of supposed trans people who are coming forward, mainly as teens and preteens, who did not exist in the past, even 20 years ago. The cause for this is social transmission. ROGD research has been poo-pooed by trans-advocates but is still pretty real. Another indicator of the ephemerality of trans is the extremely defensive way this movement reacts against any attempt to study the phenomenon objectively. If you look at boy small children and girl small children, you can see that sex-constraints on behavior are more or less real, international, and trans-temporal.
It's not fair for girls and women, some of whom make careers based on sports, to force them to compete with male bodies in most sports. The departure from common sense and from a sense of basic fairness here is worrisome.