It's complicated, but how can Lia compete? There has to be a satisfactory answer. The columnist writes at length about the road to women's professional sports becoming mainstream, yet supports denying transgender people the same right. Like I said, it's complicated and I'm not really knowledgeable enough to have an informed opinion.
I probably wouldn't have called her a bad human, but that's because it's not my personality.

The_Piper wrote:It's complicated, but how can Lia compete? There has to be a satisfactory answer. The columnist writes at length about the road to women's professional sports becoming mainstream, yet supports denying transgender people the same right. Like I said, it's complicated and I'm not really knowledgeable enough to have an informed opinion.
I probably wouldn't have called her a bad human, but that's because it's not my personality.

I think so, too. I don’t know how to do it, and gave no effort to its solution.

I think it’s a manufactured problem. It appears about one in thirty thousand people are trans women. Of that small slice, I wonder how many of transgender women compete in sport of any kind? Of that smaller group, how many are doing so at an age where they seek an athletic scholarship to university?

I bet it isn’t very common.

The exclusion of the out-group is what earned Julie my scorn this morning. There’s a price to be paid for being a hired commentator.

I'm sure the situation is pretty rare. Especially in high school sports. The right just needs a bogeyman to pick on. They're not happy unless they're kicking people down. Passing legislation that's hideously anti-LGBTQ. I despise that.

The only difference between the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Taliban in Dumbfuckistan is one of scale. This is a screen grab of the headline articles on NPR.org, a moment ago: