I blame the Bible. Adam and Eve and all that rot. What about the snake? We are and have been for millennia brainwashed to think there is only one sexuality and only two sexes. What is man, what is woman?
What two women or two men are the same. Not even identical
twins are truly identical, or necessarily have the same sexuality. Sex and sexuality are on parallel spectrums, they
are not defined points. It may be that most people identify clearly at one or
other end of these two spectra. But not all do. And much harm has been done by
this confined and confining view.
Some people born as biological women, are short, some tall,
some obese, some skeletal, some pear shaped, some curvatious, some with very large
breasts, some with none, some with mousy voices and some with deep and resonate
voices, many can bear children, but some cannot, some are physically strong,
some not. Some have body and facial hair, some do not. Some of these “women”
can run ten miles at break-neck speed, scale cliffs, paddle in whitewater, and
others struggle to get up off the sofa to turn off the TV.
So who are these uniform biological women athletes that the
anti-trans advocates claim to be supporting. Are we to accept the innuendo that
one must take from this position: i.e., that biological women are universally inferior
in strength and endurance to men. And who are these men anyway?
And interestingly, I have yet to hear any objection voiced
that a biological woman who has identified as male, should not be allowed to
compete as a man. I wonder what assumptions and stereotypes that is based on.
And I haven’t even gotten into sexuality yet.
