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Thanks for the links. As you noted it’s invaluable to have a condensation of the information.

It is striking how asymmetric this is. The publications cited are wise to consistently use the term male and female. It makes stark the unfairness of the situation.

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With Trump's election, some moderates on the left (including Never Trumpers) have been willing to discuss whether the Democratic Party has gone too far in its unquestioning support for every element on the trans agenda. The fact some conversations took place in which gender critical voices were not automatically censored does not mean that there has been a sea change in liberal and progressives' attitudes and beliefs toward gender identity ideology and the trans issues that have been the focus of sex realist activists recently.

One such conversation generated over 800 comments in the corresponding comment section. Unfortunately, the prevailing view among the trans allies in this group of commenters is that the matter of trans-identifying men's participation in women-only sports has been greatly overblown. Showing the sort of message discipline commonly found only among Republicans, commenters contended that so few trans women are actually competing against real women that the topic does not merit discussion. (Who was the first Dem to come up with that?)

Some attributed centrist's gender critical views on men in women's sports to their having consumed too much right wing media. This reflects trans activists' ignorance (real or feigned) of the sex realist movement on the left led primarily by British feminists. None of the commenters were willing to engage in a discussion on the merits of the sex realist position, i.e., that males' physiological advantages make it unfair for them to be on teams with real women. In other forums, defenders of trans women in sports meandered into irrelevancies such as the supposed hypocrisy behind the lack of objections to variations in physiological advantage within groups of women.

Obviously, many people, including educated young Democrats and Independents, just do not grasp the unfairness and injustice to real females when males who identify females as are allowed to compete against real females. What will it take? Boycotts are a great start. Exposing attempts by coaches and school administrators to silence and bully female athletes who do not want trans women on their teams would also help increase public opposition to the practice.

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