What is unnecessary gendered? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by Idrunkenlysignedup@beehaw.org to c/askbeehaw@beehaw.org

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I was watching pro golf coverage on the news and it seems so odd that men and women compete separately - same goes with pro bowling. Just seems weird to me that a game of skill is gendered when you can't even raise an argument that someone might have an advantage because of what's between their legs.

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[-] CookieMeowster@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Intersex people are also caught in all the anti-trans legislation.

That's something I wasn't aware of (and have the priviledge not to think about) - do you happen to know more about how they are impacted, or any good resources for reading up on it?

Just instinctually, it sounds like a conundrum for all anti-transgender legal 'logic'. Those people are biologically not exclusively male or female (to my understanding, corrections welcome), so which part of "you have to be your rEaL gender" applies to them? Or is being born intersex just intrinsically criminal?