Trump Announces Ban on Transgender People in US Military

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Ka-pi96 said:

DarthMetalliCube said:

Well perhaps I'm speaking too broadly here.. I mean if we're talking in those terms you've outlined I don't really consider that true discrimination, at least not in any significant context.. It's for the sake of art/entertainment for one thing. Secondly, it's simply bringing on specific types to fullfill a role based on who fits the description to best fill it.. Obviously I don't think it would work out too well if a 30 year old hairy dude was cast to play the role of Annie, or if a tiny 20 year old girl was hired on as the quarterback of the Chicago Bears lol. 

But yes as a general rule, being libertarian in nature - I feel strongly that people should be granted positions/roles and be treated/judged 100% based on character and actions, not features they are born with and cannot control like gender or race. 

I'm speaking more in terms of human rights people having equal access to everything.

That would be interesting, to say the least

I do agree though that people should be based on character and actions rather than gender or race. But at the same time there are occasions when gender/race should be considered, and as long as there's a justifiable reason for that I think that's ok.

As for your last sentence, in principle I do agree. The issue I have with that is many leftist people seek to force through equal outcomes in life (ironically by using racism and sexism), while I think people should only have a right to equal opportunities.

Oh absolutely - and this is where I differ from the left despite having many liberal views. This constant push to try and get more women into STEM for instance, as they are highly underepresented there, to me is foolish and short-sighted, since it doesn't take into account that most women seem to PREFER other fields than STEM. Same reason you won't find many male nurses. This is still a form of discrimination, just flipped around. Leftists will try and make excuses like "well these women are raised and TRAINED to think this way by teh patriarchy!!1" The irony is they don't see how condescending that is to these women as it's a subtle way of telling them "you are too weak/simple minded to think for yourselves so we must think for you or save you!"

So while I'm against gender discrimination, I'm also against an artificial push to make every area "equal" in terms of male/female. In essence - their shouldn't be FORCED equality, though there also shouldn't be forced inequality. These things should play out naturally.