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Yes it is. You can't "stand up for rights" by infringing on another's rights.
They’re not dictating who can play sports any more than they always have. There’s already a female league, which inherently means men can’t participate. Are you going to argue that having a women’s league is against the law or discriminatory in the first place? If that’s your stance, then you’re essentially agreeing with me that universities should transition from a gender-based system to an open, non-gendered system to be inclusive for all students--not just those who fit into clear, traditional gender roles. By doing that, literally no one would have any room to complain about transgender inclusion. It’s the obvious solution to everyone’s issues, but as a society, we’re so fixated on who has a penis and who has a vagina that we’re completely overlooking the simplicity and fairness of this approach. The best part is that it doesn't infringe on anyone's rights in the process...everyone is equal, everyone can participate and play, no one is excluded.
It’s almost as if people are free to have their own opinions about things, even when those opinions don’t align with the majority. Strange, right? Populism doesn’t bother me—it’s just the system functioning as it should. Frankly, I’m not impressed when someone holds the exact same opinion as a dozen or so random people on the internet. The fact that you think that’s how it should be is... odd to me. The way you feel things ought to be and the way they actually are will almost always differ. The reality is that even students who hold racist, sexist, xenophobic, or transphobic views also have rights, and you can’t trample on theirs without opening the door for everyone's rights to be trampled on.
You can’t protect rights by taking them away from others. That’s not protecting rights--it's just making yourself feel morally superior. It would be fantastic if trans individuals could compete without anyone having an issue with it. I’d fully support that. But that’s not the reality we live in, and denying that reality doesn't help anyone, least of all trans students. Sitting behind your keyboard and declaring, "Things should be this way!"--even when that approach grants rights to one group by stripping them from another--helps absolutely no one. Using the justification of "haha, he’s getting downvoted, so that means I’m right!" is just plain silly. Sure, it might be an unpopular opinion, but that doesn’t determine whether it's objectively true or not. Truth isn’t decided by popularity.
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It's almost like this is a serious issue and deserves more than 140 characters. Why you think that's a bad thing is pretty fucked up. You're not the advocate you think that you are here.
You need to look up the paradox of tolerance.
Allowing black people into diners because it makes white folks uncomfortable is not trampling on the rights of white folks.
And your whole argument seems to hinge on this idea that trans women aren't women, I have less testosterone than my girlfriend by far.
Even if I was in shape she would still kick my ass if we were the same size.
And thankfully, in sports where size matters, they have weight divisions.
So it's not a red herring and nobody is being disingenuous but you. You are transphobic and you need to actually look at the science before you start spouting off opinions about other people trampling on my rights because a fucking bully told them that if they didn't, he was going to take their money.
Because that is what is happening here. No students are complaining about participating in sports with trans women. Donald Trump is just picked my community as a target for his vile hatred while he destroys our country.
And here you are defending