Overall, 75% of American adults say trans women shouldn't be allowed to play on female sports teams, per the NBC News Stay Tuned Poll. Gen Z is the most supportive.
Kinda tangential, but this is why I keep ranting about how stupid it is to blame things on “boomers”, like when they die we have a eutopia. Some things are a human problem, and this is one of them.
Xeonphobia, at its core, fundamental to humans. We fear the unknown, and deviations from the familiar trigger the same response in our brains and bodies no matter what the baseline for familiar happens to be.
Letting that turn into hate is a choice, and it is not something that everyone in a generation will choose, nor choose to reject. While some bigotry is learned from previous generations, it can’t take root without ignorance as fertilizer.
In the case of this bullshit, there’s a big barrier to ignorance being limited. Until enough trans women compete at a high level (because, as stupid as it is, it’s trans women that really catch the heat on this matter almost exclusively), it takes effort to know that it’s bullshit. You have to go and look up records of multiple sports and compare known trans athletes with cis athletes. When that happens, it becomes obvious that it’s a false claim because trans women don’t dominate when they compete. It just doesn’t happen. There’s no wave of new world records being owned by trans women when they’re allowed to compete, there just isn’t.
But good luck getting the average person to go look.
So, because trans women aren’t allowed to compete at a visible level, baseless claims end up being parroted because the vast majority of humanity just takes what they’re told about anything and swallows it because they think that if it’s said publicly, the claim must be true. If it validates an already present fear or belief, even better!
It’s paradox; you can’t destroy ignorance without presence, and you can’t gain presence without destroying ignorance.
Hell, there’s even simple answer to it. Just let people compete as their confirmed gender, and if it turns out there’s a wave of pwning that happens, put an asterisk next to the records and figure out a way for everyone to have the ability to enjoy their competitive sport on a balanced footing (the way we do with weight classes in combat sports, as an example) at that point.
But, no, people just aren’t willing to accept that what they think isn’t automatically right.
Kinda tangential, but this is why I keep ranting about how stupid it is to blame things on “boomers”, like when they die we have a eutopia. Some things are a human problem, and this is one of them.
Xeonphobia, at its core, fundamental to humans. We fear the unknown, and deviations from the familiar trigger the same response in our brains and bodies no matter what the baseline for familiar happens to be.
Letting that turn into hate is a choice, and it is not something that everyone in a generation will choose, nor choose to reject. While some bigotry is learned from previous generations, it can’t take root without ignorance as fertilizer.
In the case of this bullshit, there’s a big barrier to ignorance being limited. Until enough trans women compete at a high level (because, as stupid as it is, it’s trans women that really catch the heat on this matter almost exclusively), it takes effort to know that it’s bullshit. You have to go and look up records of multiple sports and compare known trans athletes with cis athletes. When that happens, it becomes obvious that it’s a false claim because trans women don’t dominate when they compete. It just doesn’t happen. There’s no wave of new world records being owned by trans women when they’re allowed to compete, there just isn’t.
But good luck getting the average person to go look.
So, because trans women aren’t allowed to compete at a visible level, baseless claims end up being parroted because the vast majority of humanity just takes what they’re told about anything and swallows it because they think that if it’s said publicly, the claim must be true. If it validates an already present fear or belief, even better!
It’s paradox; you can’t destroy ignorance without presence, and you can’t gain presence without destroying ignorance.
Hell, there’s even simple answer to it. Just let people compete as their confirmed gender, and if it turns out there’s a wave of pwning that happens, put an asterisk next to the records and figure out a way for everyone to have the ability to enjoy their competitive sport on a balanced footing (the way we do with weight classes in combat sports, as an example) at that point.
But, no, people just aren’t willing to accept that what they think isn’t automatically right.