No one is arguing that.
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I see no upside for men and women competing against each other in sports. So I'm all for discrimination in this narrow case...and I do not feel I've fallen on a slippery slope here.
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I agree. At a number of levels, not only is there no upside to male/transfemale vs. female but a downside prevails. The idea of "fairness" has a socially-constructed aspect but it is also something concrete with a basis in human biology, consequences of our being social animals.
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Society cannot even be defined without the inherent right to be exclusive. In the very act of making a choice, you're being discriminating.
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If we have women's sports, we should have a women's army too. How about a women's only lawschool? How about women's shoes stores. Yay! If we keep this up we might have women's only bathrooms by the year 2050.
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I'm going to turn your words back on you. Have you not noticed that no one is calling for the removal of discrimination between men and women in sports?
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Reminds me of an Ayan Rand novel I read once. "No Answer"
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Not "a 'reason'" or "any reason", but a good enough reason, yes. The world is full of discrimination. The question is when to discriminate, not if we discriminate. Can you acknowledge the reason offered here is at least rational, if not good enough for you?
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Yes! As long as it is a reasonable reason. We discriminate in schools between honor and remedial students. We discriminate between criminals based on the severity of thier crime. We when patients with life threatening injuries get priority in hospitals.
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I'd also like to point out that the basis for discrimination (gender, weight, age, skill level of the participant) can be separate and unrelated to the reason for discriminating (safety, fairness, more exciting competition.)
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If it is reasonable to eliminate the male/female divide in sports, should we not eliminate the age division too? Or, is there a difference? If so, what?
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