"...Concurrently, DeSantis roiled the waters when he rejected transgender swimmer Lia Thomas's victory in the NCAA women's 500 yard freestyle finals, recognizing the runner up (Emma Weyant, a Florida native) as the "rightful" winner.
This engendered the usual screams of trans-phobia.
No matter that every rational person knows that biologically male athletes competing against biologically female ones is fundamentally unfair.
Growing up with XY chromosomes and male hormones coursing through your body results in different skeletal structure, greater musculature, and greater aerobic capacity than growing up with XX chromosomes and female hormones.
No matter that every rational person knows that biologically male athletes competing against biologically female ones is fundamentally unfair.
Growing up with XY chromosomes and male hormones coursing through your body results in different skeletal structure, greater musculature, and greater aerobic capacity than growing up with XX chromosomes and female hormones.
No amount of hormone suppression treatment will undo these differences.
...Yet, here we are, and it's the result not of a broad "tolerance and acceptance" movement...but of a small subset of activists, who have made it so clear that they want to wipe out our natural cultural understanding that men and women are different that they've alienated former allies in the feminist and the LGB movements.
...This all echoes the Soviets' Lysenkoism of nearly a century ago...Read all!
...Yet, here we are, and it's the result not of a broad "tolerance and acceptance" movement...but of a small subset of activists, who have made it so clear that they want to wipe out our natural cultural understanding that men and women are different that they've alienated former allies in the feminist and the LGB movements.
...This all echoes the Soviets' Lysenkoism of nearly a century ago...Read all!
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