Sports is a non issue that affects probably less than a hundred people in the entire country.
True, but it doesn’t matter how big of an issue it actually is as far as if it’s effective as a wedge issue. Number of people effected isn’t part of the equation, it’s all how obviously messed up it is and how visible it is.
Especially since there are genuine fairness issues that probably need to be mapped out on a per-sport and per-level-of-competition basis because things like going through male puberty have lasting effects (differences in body structure that don’t go away through HRT) that may effect competitive ability. Really, we probably shouldn’t have boys/men’s and girls/women’s sports as the dividing line in the first place, but in the absence of something more comprehensive (and necessarily more difficult to gauge) it’s roughly good enough for a majority of cases.
Again, it doesn’t need to effect a lot of people to be an effective wedge, it just needs to be super visible. For example, one trans MMA fighter beating the shit out of a cis woman to a degree that just didn’t usually happen in fights between two cis women is worth a thousand cases where it’s not a big deal at all as far as public sentiment.
The right wing platforms one or two crazy trans people and than that becomes representative of all trans people.
I’d argue the trans person most platformed by the right is Blaire White, and she…umm…isn’t on your side. That’s why they platform her. Because she’s a trans woman who can point to those “one or two crazy trans people” and call them that openly without the argument being that she just hates all trans people for being trans and no other reason.
True, but it doesn’t matter how big of an issue it actually is as far as if it’s effective as a wedge issue. Number of people effected isn’t part of the equation, it’s all how obviously messed up it is and how visible it is.
Especially since there are genuine fairness issues that probably need to be mapped out on a per-sport and per-level-of-competition basis because things like going through male puberty have lasting effects (differences in body structure that don’t go away through HRT) that may effect competitive ability. Really, we probably shouldn’t have boys/men’s and girls/women’s sports as the dividing line in the first place, but in the absence of something more comprehensive (and necessarily more difficult to gauge) it’s roughly good enough for a majority of cases.
Again, it doesn’t need to effect a lot of people to be an effective wedge, it just needs to be super visible. For example, one trans MMA fighter beating the shit out of a cis woman to a degree that just didn’t usually happen in fights between two cis women is worth a thousand cases where it’s not a big deal at all as far as public sentiment.
I’d argue the trans person most platformed by the right is Blaire White, and she…umm…isn’t on your side. That’s why they platform her. Because she’s a trans woman who can point to those “one or two crazy trans people” and call them that openly without the argument being that she just hates all trans people for being trans and no other reason.