Re: "LGB Without The T": Why Some Are Saying Trans-Rights Activists Have Crossed The Line

On 4/11/2023 11:45 AM, David Hartung wrote:
> On 4/11/23 13:38, Josh Rosenbluth wrote:
>> On 4/11/2023 6:25 AM, David Hartung wrote:
>>> On 4/10/23 20:05, Ubiquitous wrote:
>>>> The LGBTQ community appears to be on the brink of a schism as 
>>>> trans-rights
>>>> activists push harder and harder to blur the lines defining sex and 
>>>> single-
>>>> sex spaces — often disproportionately encroaching on spaces meant to be
>>>> limited to only women.
>>>>
>>>> There are certainly some cases involving trans men, particularly 
>>>> with regard
>>>> to alleged discrimination in health care when a woman who identifies 
>>>> as a man
>>>> goes through pregnancy, but the vast majority of the activism comes 
>>>> from
>>>> trans-identifying men demanding access to spaces that are 
>>>> traditionally for
>>>> females only.
>>>>
>>>> The advocacy itself stretches across many fronts — from women’s 
>>>> sports to
>>>> women’s shelters to women’s prisons, hitting up every rest stop 
>>>> restroom in
>>>> between — and has forced its way onto college campuses, into high 
>>>> schools and
>>>> middle schools, and even into elementary schools.
>>>>
>>>> The stated goal is equality or equal access, but the end result is 
>>>> that a
>>>> growing number of titles and achievements that were previously only 
>>>> open to
>>>> women are being quickly taken up by biological males:
>>>>
>>>> • A 6’1? fully intact biological male — who was allowed to walk 
>>>> freely among
>>>>    biological women as they stripped and changed into their bathing 
>>>> suits — is
>>>>    now an NCAA swimming champion.
>>>>
>>>> • A female cyclist, after years and years of difficult training, 
>>>> quit the
>>>>    sport she loved because she was being forced into unfair 
>>>> competition with
>>>>    biological males.
>>
>> These borderline issues are to trans rights what partial-birth 
>> abortions to abortions rights: wedges designed to split trans rights 
>> supporters. The real goal is to fully delegitimize trans people.
>>
>>>> • A male assistant secretary of Health and Human Services earned the
>>>>    distinction of “Woman of the Year.”
>>
>> This one isn't even a borderline issue. She can be Woman of the Year 
>> every bit as much as Amy Schneider is the all time female Jeopardy 
>> champion.
> 
> A human who has XY chromosomes is not, and can never be a woman.

That's long on conclusion, and short on argument. But again, thanks for 
confirming what your real goal is (and that all of this stuff about 
athletes is a side show).

>>> The fact that our culture increasingly claims that men can become 
>>> women and vice versa, and that also refuses to recognize the real 
>>> differences between men and women, is clear evidence of societal decay.
>>
>> David's reply confirms what I wrote above about the real goal.
>