In Reply to: I agree with all of your first paragraph. But, woke in many cases posted by HasBen on November 26, 2024 at 08:17:12
Which in the case of bathrooms may well have a life saving quality to it. Because men.
The sports issue matters but the key thing is the lack of any definitive word on how the testosterone advantage in the past impacts current muscle strength when the person has been taking estrogen shots to neutralize them for a while. At what point, if ever, that advantage ceases to be there. I see it as an empirical issue that's been constantly argued as an emotional one.
I wasn't even aware that the question of sexual transition surgeries for inmates was ever even a thing until some of these grainy videos surfaced. It strikes me as a debate of its time. I feel like we're so far behind wrt providing inmates even a basically humane environment (with the indentured servitude thing, solitary confinements, inadequate representation, a system designed to squeeze their families financially, etc) that sex change question does not even deserve to be on the priority list at the moment.
You can pick particular issues that the far out left may have brought up here and there in the past and take issue with them, as I do time to time. That doesn't mean though that what the right understands as woke is not actually anything we need to move away from. We just need to be more focused and principled on specifics. At least that's how I see it.