VGPolyglot said:
ArnoldRimmer said:
You somehow did not really comment on the other issues I brought up?
So, what about professional sports? How do you solve the obvious issue that allowing transgender people born as men would give them an unfair advantage in most sports if they could simply choose which gender they play for? How do you fight the obvious potential for abuse that a man could simply claim to be a transgender in order to play for the women's team in professional sports? Or, if completely eliminating gender segration as you suggest, it would obviously be illegal to have female leagues in sports, there could only be unisex leagues - which would in practice result in women more or less being excluded from professional sports. Is that such a good idea?
And what about changing rooms and shower rooms in swimming pools, gyms etc.? If the girls are hot, I'm sure most men wouldn't mind freely choosing the changing and shower rooms - or having unisex changing and shower rooms as a necessary result of eleliminating all gender segregation. But I severely doubt most women would be happy about that...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INj6HPuKJnk
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Well, I'd support unisex leagues too. And as I said, I'd generally be fine with unisex change rooms, but sexism is still a big problem in our societies so it is not feasible at the moment.
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Sexism wouldn't affect that much in sports. Only the best are choosen and there are sports where women tend to be as good or even better than man. But not in all of them. And that's the problem. What would hurt the participation of women will be the natural differences between the two genders. Not what people think of women participating in this or that sport.
As of changing/shower, there's no mindchanging policy that would prevent straight men for being attracted to women and straight women attracted to men. That's our nature. And that attraction walks along with the embarassment around seeing another people naked, specially people from another gender. If we could use the same bathrooms, same shower rooms, same changing rooms and stuff, then there would be no need for clothes. Let everybody walk naked everywhere and that's about it.
