Sasha White and I talk about teen girls and identity development
+ the National Organization for Women
NOW appears to have copy and pasted directly from the Transgender Law Center’s 2021 messaging guide, Transgender Youth and the Freedom to Be Ourselves: Building Our Choir with a Race Class Gender Narrative. The report shows that the public is deeply confused about trans issues, with one-third of respondents voicing support for a pair of contradictory policies: sorting sports teams by gender identity and sorting sports teams by sex. The report’s author spun this finding as positively as they possibly could: “Our base and persuadables want to support transgender student athletes, but are extremely susceptible to our opposition’s argument that excluding trans youth is necessary to protect the fairness of women’s sports.”
Unfortunately for activists, “people primarily understand sports through the individualistic lens of competition, where if one person wins then another, by definition, loses.” The report warns that political opponents “use the physicality of the issue to directly spout dehumanizing stereotypes about transgender women and girls” — specifically, by pointing out that “transgender women and girls” are, well, male.
To overcome this resistance, the report advises activists to reframe the issue. Never mind about winning and losing. Forget fairness. Focus instead on the “collective” values young athletes pick up on the playing field (one can hear Goss Graves’s appeal to “losing gracefully” here). Rather than making the case for why males belong in female sports, talk about “people of all races, backgrounds, and genders”. To excuse unfairness today on the basis of sex, simply hijack “the long legacy of discrimination against all women athletes” by informing the public that “women’s sports have never existed on an equal playing field.”
The report’s authors note that this argument “garnered a notably high ‘unsure’ response across the board, suggesting it helpfully caused people to question their understanding of the issue”. Or confused them, which was the whole point. That’s how we get NOW’s word salad about how it’s somehow racist — and sexist — to “mak[e] people believe there isn’t enough space for trans women in sports”.
Sports are competitive. That being so, determining fairness can't be ignored. There is no good reason why those who are trans should be coddled at the expense of others. They need to be considerate of the vulnerabilities of other groups, if they want people to be considerate of them. They need to grow up.
Re watched your Sasha White interview, and was particularly horrified at the thought of young girls and women being prescribed puberty blockers and having life altering top surgery without ever having a relationship. I feel a shared responsibility for advocating gender transition and am angry and appalled at myself for once being a trans rights advocate. Gender transition is essentially rebelling against nature and creation and increasing numbers of young girls and women are having their lives permanently altered,their life never to be the same. I know as a one time trans identified man with breasts and a neo--vagina I was not a woman.
Alarming as women's organizations such as NOW have capitulated to false gender ideology. It's absurd to attribute basic male and female biology; the fundamentals of life to white supremacy.
Perhaps the rationale is organizations must " follow the money" as social justice warriors lobby to cut the already severely underfunded women only safe spaces such underfunded shelters.
Truth ,reality and women's lives placed at risk for untruths.