Sex and gender identity clash as protected characteristics
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I can't believe this has occurred to none of the ACLU types. I have long agreed with the argument that you can't legally protect sex and legally protect gender identity at the same time because they are at odds with one another. And for most people -- the ones not driven insane by green hair dye, that is -- how that all plays out in the real world is obvious. I'd spend three paragraphs laying out, for one example, why pretending a man is a woman takes rights away from women, but intuitively we know this is true. For instance, if you give a "trans woman" a spot on a women's powerlifting team, that's a woman's spot on a team that you've just handed to a man... and it's powerlifting. It's not like the woman you shut out to make room for the man can go compete on the men's side. (And this has actually happened in New Zealand. A white man displacing a Maori woman, mind you. Great optics there, genderdorks.)
Sex and gender identity clash as protected characteristics
Sex and gender identity clash as protected…
Sex and gender identity clash as protected characteristics
I can't believe this has occurred to none of the ACLU types. I have long agreed with the argument that you can't legally protect sex and legally protect gender identity at the same time because they are at odds with one another. And for most people -- the ones not driven insane by green hair dye, that is -- how that all plays out in the real world is obvious. I'd spend three paragraphs laying out, for one example, why pretending a man is a woman takes rights away from women, but intuitively we know this is true. For instance, if you give a "trans woman" a spot on a women's powerlifting team, that's a woman's spot on a team that you've just handed to a man... and it's powerlifting. It's not like the woman you shut out to make room for the man can go compete on the men's side. (And this has actually happened in New Zealand. A white man displacing a Maori woman, mind you. Great optics there, genderdorks.)