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This part: >except that to remove perverse incentives it’s reasonable to require hrt "I took a drug, therefore I am now a woman" is not a reasonable position
by remarkEon 7mo ago
This part:
>except that to remove perverse incentives it’s reasonable to require hrt
"I took a drug, therefore I am now a woman" is not a reasonable position to hold. The debate starts out with one based on an identity, and then in the very next formulation reduces that identity to which medicines you take.
- space_fountain 7mo agoNo, but that’s not what the statement is saying. It’s arguing that we should add the minimum restrictions we can to the women’s sports category and that hormones might be a reasonable one
- remarkEon 7mo agoThis started out with a claim that “trans women are women full stop”, which implies that there’s no difference in the categories, and has since retreated to “in order for trans women to compete as women, they have to take these medicines”. So which is it?