Leor Sapir on Nostr: Ahead of tomorrow's Supreme Court ruling on trans athletes, the ACLU's lead trans ...

Ahead of tomorrow's Supreme Court ruling on trans athletes, the ACLU's lead trans litigator, Chase Strangio, has published a reflection on what sports means to "queer people."

Left out is even the slightest awareness that there might be other stakeholders whose needs, interests, and rights are negatively impacted by what "queer people" want. The idea that there might be trade-offs here never even enters the picture.

Also interesting is the piece's reversion to the pre-1972 world. Strangio calls "youth sports" a "social and emotional home" whose purpose is to make people feel they "belong." This was precisely the attitude toward female sports that Title IX and the social revolution that spawned it sought to undo. Women's advocates argued that the exclusion of girls from sports was based on stereotypes about innate female vs male dispositions: empathy vs aggression, cooperation vs competitiveness, etc.