Tuesday, March 19, 2024

A thought on "trans rights"

As a former competitive runner, the things that occurred to me first regarding "trans" competitors in women's sport are:

  • That larger, stronger men will take opportunities and podium places away from women.  Only about 2-3% of the performance differences between men and women are due to testosterone; about 10-30% difference remains.
  • That larger, stronger men will injure female competitors due to size & strength.
  • That people who are not trans at all will use the "opened" locker rooms to harass and violate female competitors.
  • That spectators will not buy tickets to, in effect, watch "men in drag".  Part of the attraction of women's sports is that it is a woman doing the sport, after all.
Expending on the third point, it strikes me that when MTF trans people in various stages of transition are allowed into women's locker rooms--or FTM trans people in men's locker rooms--what is implicitly being told to the "cisgender" residents of those locker rooms is that they no longer have a right to decide which naked individuals of the opposite gender they might see, and that they also no longer have a right to decide which individuals of the opposite gender might see them naked.

Put differently, "trans" activists are in effect telling us that if the perpetrator is trans, "flashing" or being a "peeping tom" is no longer a crime if the crime occurs in a bathroom or locker room.  One might wonder whether every flasher or peeping tom whose name is rightly on Megan's List ought to have his crime downgraded to "mere" indecent exposure if this precedent holds.

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