It is always hard to believe that we need to argue for biological sex categories in sports but because of all the unhinged reasons we know that we MUST.
Thank you for this essay and the selection of the female XX athlete to demonstrate the biological difference between XX and XY humanbeings.
The problem arises with gender issues because gender activists are forcing Critical appraisal in schools of a students’ gender which is difficult to do well. Teachers can only “teach” and if that teaching is about woke views on gender, if indoctrinated, teachers will teach this dogma to their students.
Teachers and principals are not psychiatrists, psychologists or trained mental health professionals who see no reason to isolate children from their parents influence to enforce these gender identities. This is pernicious activist dogma.
Teachers and schools should not be acting as such, and making decisions about students “genders” without informing parents, puts schools in precarious moral and legal grounds. It causes a split between parents and their children, undermining the family construct. This has to stop. This article scratches the surface of this challenge in modern day society;
These many “genders” named and encouraged by the woke, are an example of woke inspired need for western societies to be divided into “identities” that are infinitesimal in number of people, but fit the definition.
Add in intersectionality of oppressors and victimhood of the oppressed wich in woke dogma must be considered because these people are more worthy than XX females and XY men to be recognised as being selected for higher education, better job opportunities and social progression.
This thinking we all know is wrong, and absolutely ludicrous. Articles such as these confirm this.
Good essay, and important reminder of a reality that was common sense and not even up for discussion until about 5 years ago.
As they say "Trust the Science." Did science ever say that there were not two biological sexes male and female ? With a small category of people who are intersex which is rare. I am not an evolutionary biologist but I know that the two biological sexes have significant differences including that females bear children. In older times females could expect to have many pregnancies, 10 or more if they lived to reach menopause. Women could also expect to breast feed the resulting children for at least 1 year and to carry that child around. Men evolved to do the hunting, and the war. They are stronger and faster.
Analogy: We also, appropriately, segregate competition on the basis of weight, age, and other factors. While not every person of optimal weight and age will beat every person of sub-optimal weight and age, for the sake of competitive fairness we don't make a 110 pound 15 year-old wrestle a 220 pound 25 year-old. That would not be sporting. It's demeaning to say, "You may not compete because we denigrate your category (women, small people, children). But in serious competition, it's fair and inclusive to ALLOW people to compete by grouping them according to relevant categorical advantages/disadvantages.
It is always hard to believe that we need to argue for biological sex categories in sports but because of all the unhinged reasons we know that we MUST.
Thank you for your work.
Do some people actually find this essay controversial?
Thank you for this essay and the selection of the female XX athlete to demonstrate the biological difference between XX and XY humanbeings.
The problem arises with gender issues because gender activists are forcing Critical appraisal in schools of a students’ gender which is difficult to do well. Teachers can only “teach” and if that teaching is about woke views on gender, if indoctrinated, teachers will teach this dogma to their students.
Teachers and principals are not psychiatrists, psychologists or trained mental health professionals who see no reason to isolate children from their parents influence to enforce these gender identities. This is pernicious activist dogma.
Teachers and schools should not be acting as such, and making decisions about students “genders” without informing parents, puts schools in precarious moral and legal grounds. It causes a split between parents and their children, undermining the family construct. This has to stop. This article scratches the surface of this challenge in modern day society;
https://nationalpost.com/news/schools-consent-transgender-gender-transition
These many “genders” named and encouraged by the woke, are an example of woke inspired need for western societies to be divided into “identities” that are infinitesimal in number of people, but fit the definition.
Add in intersectionality of oppressors and victimhood of the oppressed wich in woke dogma must be considered because these people are more worthy than XX females and XY men to be recognised as being selected for higher education, better job opportunities and social progression.
This thinking we all know is wrong, and absolutely ludicrous. Articles such as these confirm this.
Good essay, and important reminder of a reality that was common sense and not even up for discussion until about 5 years ago.
As they say "Trust the Science." Did science ever say that there were not two biological sexes male and female ? With a small category of people who are intersex which is rare. I am not an evolutionary biologist but I know that the two biological sexes have significant differences including that females bear children. In older times females could expect to have many pregnancies, 10 or more if they lived to reach menopause. Women could also expect to breast feed the resulting children for at least 1 year and to carry that child around. Men evolved to do the hunting, and the war. They are stronger and faster.
Analogy: We also, appropriately, segregate competition on the basis of weight, age, and other factors. While not every person of optimal weight and age will beat every person of sub-optimal weight and age, for the sake of competitive fairness we don't make a 110 pound 15 year-old wrestle a 220 pound 25 year-old. That would not be sporting. It's demeaning to say, "You may not compete because we denigrate your category (women, small people, children). But in serious competition, it's fair and inclusive to ALLOW people to compete by grouping them according to relevant categorical advantages/disadvantages.