"Whether intentionally or not, it sends the message that these athletes’s gender identities shouldn’t be scrutinized and debased not because doing so is flat-out wrong, but because they’re simply not trans, and therefore these beliefs don’t concern them."
This is a strong point. It's like when McCain addressed "criticism" of Obama being A…
"Whether intentionally or not, it sends the message that these athletes’s gender identities shouldn’t be scrutinized and debased not because doing so is flat-out wrong, but because they’re simply not trans, and therefore these beliefs don’t concern them."
This is a strong point. It's like when McCain addressed "criticism" of Obama being Arab by saying, in essence, no he's not he's a good man! As if those two things are mutually exclusive.
It's also something I overlooked in so far as I'm too narrowly focused on the facts of the matter (Khelif isn't, in fact, trans) and I miss the bigger picture as a result. Thank you for keeping the focus broad.
"Whether intentionally or not, it sends the message that these athletes’s gender identities shouldn’t be scrutinized and debased not because doing so is flat-out wrong, but because they’re simply not trans, and therefore these beliefs don’t concern them."
This is a strong point. It's like when McCain addressed "criticism" of Obama being Arab by saying, in essence, no he's not he's a good man! As if those two things are mutually exclusive.
It's also something I overlooked in so far as I'm too narrowly focused on the facts of the matter (Khelif isn't, in fact, trans) and I miss the bigger picture as a result. Thank you for keeping the focus broad.