baconator wrote:
Sorry dipsh1t, you just proved my point. 6% of the roughly 50% of our country that identifies as Republicans is such a small number it's not even noteworthy. That means in order to get these ridiculous rules passed, it must take a ton of liberals to override the 94% (assuming your figure isn't bullsh1t) of the rest of the country that thinks this is insane. So you say that most liberals don't support this. But if 94% of the rest of the country doesn't support it, the rules wreaking havoc on our society are caused by the much much much larger portion or libs. It's great you personally don't support it, but tale the L and own up to the fact the vast majority of your party does.
I don't think it's fair to blame American liberals or Democrats as a whole for the policies that are now in place in the US - and in many other countries - which allow males to use gender identity claims to compete in girls' and women's sports - and to horn in on facilities and services meant to provide female people with safety, privacy, dignity and and a respite away from the often overbearing prescence and prurience of men and older boys such as girls' and women's locker rooms, toilets, shelters, rape crisis centers, domestic violence refuges, prisons and lesbian meetups and dating apps.
The fact is, a very small proportion of the population had a hand in deciding that blokes who claim to have special gender identities should be given free rein to run roughshod over women's and girls' hard-won rights like this.
All the rule changes pertaining to sports in particluar were made by very small groups of elites in positions of power in mostly private meetings held behind closed doors. The general public never got a chance to weigh in because we were never informed that allowing male athletes into female sports based on the male athletes' identity claims was something that sports policy-makers were even considering.
In the USA, the decisions to allow boys to use gender identity claims to compete in girls' HS and MS school sports in states like WA, OR, CT, NY, ME, VT, etc were made one at a time by small committees of mostly men who are voting members of the private, non-profit organizations in each of the 50 states that make the rules which govern school sports in their respective states.
Similarly, the decision to allow college-age blokes like CeCe Telfer, June Eastwood, Lia Thomas and Sadie Schreiner to compete in women's collegiate sports in the US were made by small groups of officials at the NCAA.
The IOC's decisions to allow men to compete in women's Olympics event were made by small committees of mostly men too. The IOC committee that decided in late 2015 that male athletes would be allowed to compete in women's Olympics if they made a declaration that "their gender identity is female at least for sporting purposes," and their serum T had been below 10 nmol/L for 12 months, was made up of 20 individuals - 16 of them male.
When these decisions were made, the public received no notice that organizations like WIAA in Washington state, CIAC in Connecticut, the NCAA and the IOC were even considering opening up girls' and women's sports to male athletes based on how the male athletes' say they now "identify." The public only got wind of these grossly unfair policy changes after the sports governing bodies had already put them in place and they were a "done deal."
That's true of the public across the political spectrum.
For example, in the state where I currently live, Connectiuct, pretty much everyone of every politcal stripe - Democrat, Republican, Independent, socialist, anarchist, DGAF - was taken by surpise back in 2017-20 when two strapping teenage boys were allowed to compete and clean up in girls' HS sprints because of how they said they "identified." Until male runners Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood started trouncing girls on the track in girls' meets and the CT state championships, most people in Connecticut had no idea that in 2013, the 15 men and 3 women serving on the" board of control " at CIAC - the private corporation that governs school sports in CT - had quietly decided to change the eligibility rules for girls' HS sports in CT in a way that makes girls' sports patently unfair to members of the sex for whom girls' sports were created in the first place.