Every argument that's being used to justify allowing male athletes to compete in female sports can also be used to justify allowing adults to compete in children's sports.
There is no one way for our bodies to be. People of all ages, including the trans-aged, have a range of different physical characteristics. Age is not binary! There are no set hormone ranges, body parts, or chromosomes that all people of a particular age have.
Trans-aged athletes vary in athletic ability just like cis-aged athletes. In many states, the very same cis-aged children who have claimed that trans-aged athletes have an "unfair" advantage have consistently performed as well or better than trans-aged competitors.
Excluding trans-aged children hurts all children. It invites age policing that could subject any child to invasive tests or accusations of being "too old-looking" or "too good" at their sport to be "real" children.
Trans-aged people, like all people, may experience detrimental effects to their physical and emotional wellbeing when they are pushed out of affirming spaces and communities. Efforts to exclude trans-aged children from children's sports can undermine team unity.

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9 Feb
1/ We commonly see how queer theory attempts to blur—or outright obliterate—the lines between biological categories like male and female, but it's important to realize queer theory also attempts to "queer" boundaries between core concepts like objectivity and subjectivity.
2/ The moment they accomplish that to a sufficient degree, all their chess pieces turn into queens while we hopelessly try to combat them playing by the old rules.

That's why it's so important to take a firm stand against this nonsense. There's a lot on the line.
3/ Some are asking "all right, what is the line between subjectivity and objectivity?"

This is the "nugget of truth" issue. Queer theorists take categories that may have somewhat blurry edges and insist that this means that ANY distinction is arbitrary and pure preference.
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6 Feb
1/ Slide 7 from a lecture at PSU.

"Differentiate between opinion—which everyone has—and informed knowledge, which comes from sustained experience, study, and practice."

"Sustained experience" isn't knowledge. People can be, & are often, wrong about what they're experiencing.
2/ When two people have a different "sustained experience," what do you do? How do you determine whose experience is correct? You must defer to something objective and verifiable, *outside* yourself.

This is how you acquire knowledge.
3/ It doesn't matter whether something is convincing to YOU. In order to support a claim you must appeal to shared objective reality. Personal testimony doesn't cut it. It is still anecdotal.
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5 Feb
1/ People always get hung up on the word "binary" in relation to biological sex. Sex is still binary even if some people may be truly sexually ambiguous and cannot be classified as either male or female.

Here's an analogy using a population of yellow (🌻) and white (🌼) flowers.
2/ Imagine this population consists of plants with flowers that are ONLY yellow or white, no other or in-between colors. Now suppose some of these plants have a mutation that prevents them from making a flower (🌱).

Our population:

🌻🌼🌻🌱🌻🌻🌼
🌱🌼🌼🌻🌻🌼🌻
🌼🌻🌻🌼🌼🌼🌻
3/ In this system, FLOWER COLOR is binary—there are ONLY 2 flower colors: yellow and white.

"BuT sOme PlAnTs doN'T HavE yEllOw oR WhIte FLoweRS So iT CaN'T bE BinARy!" 🤬

This is a completely irrelevant statement that does not negate the binary nature of flower color here.
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16 Jan
1) 🚨BREAKING: Whistleblowers detail financial corruption and racist retaliation at troubled charter school. Teachers come forward with affidavits and docs supporting claims that students were scrutinized and interrogated based on their racial/gender/sexual/religious identities.
2) Plaintiff William Clark seeks to have his failing grade removed for the racist workshop so that he may graduate.

Claims that "defendants alter, inflate and misrepresent their grading, attendance, and curriculum as it suits them for various purposes."
3) CLAIM "But for Defendants’ intentional racial prejudice, William would not have received a failing grade for his 'Sociology of Change' class."

These subjective grading practices are supported testimonies from teachers and administrators, and business records.
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11 Jan
This isn't unity. This is overt racism and sexism. And it doesn't get more mainstream than out of our soon-to-be President's mouth.
I don't think Biden is himself a racist and a sexist, but the policy articulated here absolutely is.
You don't use realities that occur at the population level to determine who gets what at the individual level. You simply look at need based on an individual's unique situation, and base aid on those factors.
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7 Jan
The New York City Commission on Human Rights asserts that a person's sex is based on traits such as facial hair, vocal pitch, and breast development, and further claim that "gender identity is the primary determinant of a person’s sex."

This is 100% pseudoscience.
If you want to understand exactly why it is pseudoscience, see my essay below: quillette.com/2020/06/07/jk-…
Here is the most relevant section, but see the whole article for the complete picture.
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