There is one category of issues in which my libertarian nature comes to the fore. It has to deal with most gay issues. It is that belief in personal freedom and individual choices. As far back as the 1980s, when I headed up the City Club of Chicago – a prominent civic force in the Windy City – I approved the formation of the first Gay Rights committee.
I initially favored civil unions that would provide committed gay partners many of the rights and legal protections afforded married couples. When the Supreme Court decided that gays had a constitutional right to marriage, I wrote that the normalization of gays in American society was fully established. One could argue the morality, but the constitutionally was affirmed.
I viewed it from the standpoint of secular conservative principles. On the other hand, I also respect the religious conservatives right to question the morality of the gay lifestyle if their beliefs did not lead to discrimination or violence. I was okay with the frequently stated Christian admonition to “deplore the sin but love the sinner.”
There is one issue in which I strongly disagree with the more militant individuals in the gay communities – and that is transgender men playing in traditional women’s athletic activities. That is just not fair.
One can claim to be emotionally and psychologically a woman, dress as a woman and even undergo the operations to change the bodies gender markers physically and chemically – but there are some things that do not change – basically body mass and strength.
The very fact of the physical advantage is a factor that leads some transgenders to enter competitive sports. I was first made aware of that fact by a transgender who worked for one of my clients. She openly admitted that she joined an amateur baseball league because she could hit those long balls better than any woman on the team. She was not merely bragging. She carried her teams to championships and won outstanding player awards.
It is curious that many of my progressive friends fully support transgenders in women’s sports – the same folks who carry the banner for women’s equality and rights. Yet, they seem oblivious to the contradiction of their positions.
Transgenders who take top honors in sports – and often the financial rewards that accompany them – are literally taking those honors and rewards away from women who have the natural limitations of their biology – and have trained for years to excel.
The differences in abilities between men and women in sports – particularly certain sports – has been an accepted standard. It is the reason why there is a history of men’s teams and women’s teams in most sports.
And it is not always a gender issue. Participation in one-gender sports is often organized by physical attributes. In boxing, there are the heavy weight, middle weight and bantam weight groupings. Short people do not play professional basketball. Bulked-up athletes play football but are not gymnasts or jockeys.
And an exclusion of transgenders may not be necessary in every sport, where the comparative physiology is not significant. Men and women already play together on bowling teams and in a number of Olympic sports in which the physical attributes do not apply.
To see the problem, imagine a women’s basketball team with a few 6’8” transgenders on one team. It is possible for a person to feel differently than their birth biology. The body can be transformed through surgery and chemistry. The emotional and psychological issues can be addressed through counseling. But the foundational genetic attributes cannot be changed entirely.
I do not claim to understand the internal dynamics that drive gender dysphoria, but I do accept it as a reality. I willingly grant transgenders all the rights and freedoms of a conservative society based on individual rights and personal choices. But no one has a right to play on a team with a built-in unfair advantage.
In this case, my sympathy goes to the young girls who are denied the honors and rewards of their sports activities because a transgender enjoys a fundamental physical advantage.
So, there ‘tis.
Transgenders are not females. ‘Male’ trans are ‘drag queens’. It does not matter if they have mutilated, or castrated themselves, and become eunuchs. They are still, and will forever be males.. If they have the XY chromosomes they are males–forever. If they have the XX chromosome they are females–forever, no matter what they might do to ‘change’ themselves.. If they have both types of chromosomes they are real transgenders and should have their own class of sports, just as do males, and females.
People with the two different chromosomes cannot help it, because they were originally two fraternal twins in the embryonic stage who accidentally meshed to became one embryo. And just as the handicapped have their own sports teams, so should the real transgenders.
It is completely unfair for an XY male, so-called ‘transgender’ to compete in female sports, even if their testosterone levels are lower than some other males. They still have the biology of males and do not compare with females. If they’ve won, they should return their medals. All these ‘trans drags’ are really doing is mocking females–making fools of females, just as the drag comedians on T.V. are in reality actually making fools of women. They are making sport of real females. It should not be allowed in sports, nor on T.V. nor in any of the media. It is direct sexism and should be stopped! A Black person would have such a one fired over much, much, much less.
Pretty bad when your allowed to act like a girl so you get to do and go where ever the real females are. If I were to see one checking out my kids or girlfriend or wife what ever, I’d show this sick freak what I’m going as today. You democrats are as sick as any human can be, SICK. You make 90% of us in this country sick to our stomachs. You should all be put in a padded cell, for being so sick and perverted. Go ahead don’t post it today I’ll keep showing you how sick you all are and you keep proving it by denying it and kicking my post off so you only post the lies.