Transgender man wins women's 100 yd and 400 yd freestyle races.
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I didn’t claim it’s what you suggested? I’m applying the same logic you’re using in your argument -
Rapists about to be sent to prison suddenly have a revelation that they're actually a woman and get sent to a women's prison instead, and you think this isn't fakery or abuse of Self ID?
Rapists about to be sent to prison suddenly have a revelation that they’re actually men, using your logic would mean they should actually be sent to a men’s prison because their victims were women, and they shouldn’t be housed in the same prison as women on the basis that they might harm women, given they have already been convicted of a criminal offence, and their victims were women.
I’m reminded of this statistic, which For Women Scotland tried to claim was a result of men claiming to be women being recorded as such, when in actual fact it was how their victims identified the perpetrators -
Between 2015 and 2019, the numbers of reported cases of female-perpetrated child sexual abuse to police in England and Wales rose from 1,249 to 2,297 - an increase of 84%.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-55338745.amp
It’s understandable that people would immediately associate people who commit rape and other sexual offences with men, and be repulsed by the idea that women could be capable of committing such acts, but those preconceived ideas are based upon their own prejudices and beliefs -
According to Dr Kieran McCartan, associate professor of criminology at the University of the West of England in Bristol and a specialist in sexual offences, these figures aren't down to an "epidemic" but are the result of cultural changes.
"I think there has been a shift in society which has enabled victims to feel more confident coming forward," he says.
"There is greater trust in the police taking sex offences seriously, their investigations are more attuned and in turn more cases are being referred to courts."
It’s a sentiment echoed by clinical and forensic psychologist Dr Katie Seidler, who says that the past couple of decades have led to greater recognition of the capacity for women to engage in sexual offences.
"Women are also being held more accountable – in the past there has been an element of their behaviour being minimised or excused, that they are somehow not capable of this behaviour. But as society has changed those old-fashioned views have changed," she says.
Dr McCartan acknowledges, however, that society has long had a problem with the notion of a female sex offender.
"We get very uncomfortable with the idea of female offenders in general, never mind sexual offenders as they are going against a deep-seated notion of what it means to be feminine, to be a mother, a nurturing figure and all those societal norms and stereotypes," he says.
"We also talk about them in very different ways: we refer to male offenders as evil and sadistic, but we often see female offenders as being vulnerable or mentally unstable."
That difference in language extends to victims too. "We say victims of male grooming are damaged, but reverse it and there is still this idea that if a female teacher seduces a pupil they 'got lucky.' It allows us to think about them in a very different way."
It is a view echoed by forensic psychologist Nina Burrows, who says that as a society we have historically preferred not to confront the notion of female abusers.
“We find it abhorrent because it challenges our ideas of women and motherhood,” she explains.
“We also find it frightening because we like to live with the idea that men are dangerous and women are safe, so when you see children talking to a male stranger in the park it’s dangerous but if they’re talking to a woman it isn’t."
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5867301/female-sex-offenders-paedo-mistress-babysitter/amp/
Your argument is that their intent is to abuse prison accommodation policies in order to abuse women, so they should be housed with men in order to prevent them from having access to women in order to abuse them. That’s suggesting that people who have been convicted of committing sexual offences should be accommodated according to the perceived sex or gender of their victims.
If that were the policy, it wouldn’t just apply to anyone who claims to have had a revelation that they were the opposite sex in the hope of abusing prison accommodation policies to be housed with prisoners of the sex of their victims, it would apply to all prisoners.
Reality however, is more complex than the limitations of your hypothetical nonsense argument against recognising that people have a right to be recognised by the State as their preferred gender. Were policy actually dictated by your simplistic reasoning, we wouldn’t have birthday photos like this -
Or stories more reminiscent of the plot of a bad Netflix drama -
This is the second time Charlotte Mulhall has been embroiled in a scandal with prison staff. In November 2017 a male member of prison staff was found hiding behind a shower curtain in Mulhall’s en-suite bathroom. The officer was ‘very flustered’ and CCTV recorded him entering her cell 10 minutes earlier. Prison officers later entered Charlotte Mulhall’s room as there was a suspicion the pair were in a sexual relationship.
Have you given any consideration to convicted sex offenders who commit rape and other sexual offences, whose victims are men and boys, and where they should be accommodated so that they’re not a danger to men and boys in prisons which accommodate men and boys?
Or is it just women you’ll pretend to give a shìt about in order to support your argument that Self-ID should be rescinded in law on the basis that there are convicted sex offenders who abuse it, even though it’s existence in law makes no difference whatsoever to how and where prisoners are to be accommodated as that’s decided on a case by case basis, taking into account all the circumstances involved in each case?
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It accepts that the primary differences are fixed and unchangeable.
It doesn’t though, in fact it specifically makes the point that women are being trained with strategies which do not regard the biological differences between the sexes, and that if they did, the potential for women to perform better would mean the sex gap would be reduced -
Hence, the physiological, biomechanical and neuromuscular profiles of a typical female middle-distance runner could mean they have greater potential to excel at longer aerobic-based events than the 800 m (Duffield and Dawson, 2003; Duffield et al., 2005). If this is true, then you may expect the sex gap to be greater in the 800 m than other middle- and long-distances. This was not clear from the top 20 sex gap analysis; however, we did see a narrowing of the gap over time for the 1,500 m and 5,000 m and this trend was absent for the 800 m (Figure 1). Perhaps females are “training smarter” in these longer events, leading to greater relative improvement compared to males. There may be scope for female 800 m runners to narrow the sex gap by tapping into the ASR domain, which is evidently a successful approach for male middle-distance runners (Sandford et al., 2018). There is a male sex bias in middle-distance running research (Mpholwane, 2007) which means that coaches tend to train female athletes using strategies that have been validated in males, but do not take into consideration aforementioned sex differences. Hence, more research is needed using female runners to ensure that training strategies will enable them to reach their biological potential.
The issue of biological differences between the sexes and sociological beliefs, expectations and standards crops up in all sorts of sports, with the most extreme example I have experienced anyways, being the sport of bodybuilding -
So while the empowering aspect of bodybuilding may be attractive to some women, the cultural repulsion of visible muscle on the female body might be an inhibiting factor for many women, discouraging them from getting involved in strength training and bodybuilding. Many of us know or have female friends who refuse to lift heavy weights in the fear of becoming “too muscular”. On the other hand, there are still women who love bodybuilding, seek muscle, and set out to acquire the type of visible muscularity that is traditionally shunned by society. I studied this group of women in my master’s degree research, and I noticed that the most common form of gender expression among female bodybuilders is filled with paradoxes. The most glaring paradox is the bodybuilders’ efforts to be simultaneously (super) muscular and (super) feminine. In fact, to display hyper-femininity is a requirement at women’s bodybuilding competitions. Competitors are required to look/be feminine in order to be viewed favorably by judges. This means having a feminine posing style on stage and visually creating a look that is judged as feminine (this includes the hair, makeup, nails, jewellery, competition suit and shoes).
Some posters only look at the pics, so for their benefit -
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It doesn’t though, in fact it specifically makes the point that women are being trained with strategies which do not regard the biological differences between the sexes, and that if they did, the potential for women to perform better would mean the sex gap would be reduced
That's a very different point. The biological differences between men and women are fixed and immutable. But, the fact that research in exercise physiology has traditionally concentrated on male physiology means that optimising research and training for female physiology does suggest that the gap may be reduced. That's got nothing to do with the immutability of biological differences, but it does acknowledge the difference in biology and that optimal training regimes should acknowledge that.
Also, even if the gap continues to narrow forever more, that doesn't mean the gap will reduce to zero. My vague recollection of leaving cert maths explains this in terms of limits. The gap between two curves can keep on reducing but if both curves are approaching two different limits, then they will never meet.
You can see it in the male and female marathon world records in the graphs below. Massive improvements in women's times mirroring the corresponding men's improvements 80 years earlier. Neither graph show the latest data which has both curves essentially flat. I added red lines at the end to show it. Male record set in 2:01:39 (2018) last point on graph 2:03:38 (2011). Female record is 2:14:04 (2019) which is only one minute faster than the previous record set 16 years earlier. It's looking like there will always be a ten minute (or greater) gap between the sexes. Male times seem to be converging towards 2:00:00 and female to 2:10 maybe, with no guarantee that either sex will reach either of them.
And as the article says:
The purpose of this discussion is not to create a “battle of the sexes” (Tanaka, 2002), since males and females are not in direct competition with each other but, rather, with members of their own sex.
Seems like a naive thing to say in the present climate, but at least you know what they mean. It's about women overcoming barriers that have stopped them from reaching their potential. It's not about showing the sex gap can be reduced to zero.
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