| o_O.Q said: "I think we should treat transgender people how they want to be treated but there are situations where we have to make a exception." you think they should be treated how they want to be treated until you don't... that's my point |
But that's the way our society works. This also applies to you and me.
It is a constant balancing of various interests. Personal freedom ends where it threatens the freedom of others.
I think the option for transgender women to participating in a women's sports league threatens biological women's opportunity to have a fair competition and in this case i value fair competition higher. Honestly this is actually the only exception i can think of.
| o_O.Q said: "How do you think we should treat transgender people?" with respect, but that does not mean that the notion that men can simply become a women or vice versa through "identity" completely disregarding the biological basis from which we derive genders is the way to go its an obvious mistake to do so... as jaicee has mentioned in this thread, one obvious consequence is that in doing so we run the risk of eliminating male and female as categories and then why should mike tyson not be able to go head to head with rhonda rousey if the concept of man and woman don't mean anything? why should we bother to advocate for women's issues when women don't exist? .... i mean i don't really get how people cannot see what is at stake here |
Your answer is rather vague. What do you mean with respect?
What pronoun do you use when talking about a transgender person? should they choose which toilet they use? should sex changing operations be allowed? should a transgender couple be allowed to marry and adopt children? etc.
I also don't get your concept of categories. Where do you use those categories? In medicine, work life, everyday life,..?
And what are those stakes you are talking about? do you think we will throw away our knowledge about the female body or women rights?(wasn't the strong segregation between men and women the reason why women were treated so badly in the past)
Btw some people are born neither male nor female so there are more than 2 categories from the beginning.
