As a father of 2 daughters, life long athlete, American, and most importantly a human who believes in freedom and personal rights I highly recommend you listen to this and pass it along to everyone you know. We can't leave this shit be...
This is a post I made further down in this thread, but should have said it here in the original post. So here it is:
”In the last 18 hours I have thought about this podcast, the general situation around Transgender athletes in sport, and transgender people in general. This has made me realize that I want to be a bit more clear on my feelings about this and the reasons I started this thread in the first place:
This thread is about fairness in competition, keeping the integrity of women‘s sports, and honesty. This thread is not about the Trans community, but rather how the governing bodies handled this specific scenario and how others have been handled. I truly believe in freedom down to my core, and swore a never ending oath to defend it for all. How I understand freedom is that my freedom ends where yours begins, that I have no more rights than you, that ALL people are created equal and should be treated as such.
Where I started this thread I want to make it clear that I support the Trans community, & all communities / groups / individuals etc. I truly believe that all deserve the right to live as they choose, how they see fit, be allowed to openly be who they are and accepted in this human community. However that level of freedom comes with the conditions where one person can not impede or harm in anyway another person.
I hope our society can create a place for Transgender athletes to compete in a way that is fair to all. I am not a overly intelligent person so I do not have a perfect solution to this problem, it is definitely complicated. However what I do know / believe is saying that or allowing / promoting Transgender Women competing against biological Women is fair is not right and is no better than saying Transgender people should have less freedoms than non-Transgender people.
I know no one here cares about my opinion or beliefs, nor should you I just do not want to mis represent myself. I know this is a very polarizing subject where so many people have such drastically different opinions and people have a tendency to assume what others mean or think as opposed to taking things at face value. So I want to be clear my fight is for freedom, fair and equal freedom for all.”
This is a post I made further down in this thread, but should have said it here in the original post. So here it is:
”In the last 18 hours I have thought about this podcast, the general situation around Transgender athletes in sport, and transgender people in general. This has made me realize that I want to be a bit more clear on my feelings about this and the reasons I started this thread in the first place:
This thread is about fairness in competition, keeping the integrity of women‘s sports, and honesty. This thread is not about the Trans community, but rather how the governing bodies handled this specific scenario and how others have been handled. I truly believe in freedom down to my core, and swore a never ending oath to defend it for all. How I understand freedom is that my freedom ends where yours begins, that I have no more rights than you, that ALL people are created equal and should be treated as such.
Where I started this thread I want to make it clear that I support the Trans community, & all communities / groups / individuals etc. I truly believe that all deserve the right to live as they choose, how they see fit, be allowed to openly be who they are and accepted in this human community. However that level of freedom comes with the conditions where one person can not impede or harm in anyway another person.
I hope our society can create a place for Transgender athletes to compete in a way that is fair to all. I am not a overly intelligent person so I do not have a perfect solution to this problem, it is definitely complicated. However what I do know / believe is saying that or allowing / promoting Transgender Women competing against biological Women is fair is not right and is no better than saying Transgender people should have less freedoms than non-Transgender people.
I know no one here cares about my opinion or beliefs, nor should you I just do not want to mis represent myself. I know this is a very polarizing subject where so many people have such drastically different opinions and people have a tendency to assume what others mean or think as opposed to taking things at face value. So I want to be clear my fight is for freedom, fair and equal freedom for all.”
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