Transgender MTF picked for Olympics weightlifting

An newspaper article which confirms what I suggest was already apparent - namely that a certain type of 'feminism' is ultimately the cause of some of the issues that women now face and that therefore such social movements are ultimately self defeating for those they have claimed to advocate for...

Trans issues in the public sphere provide an excellent example of what happens when people gain social status from prestige narratives. And, if Professor Kathleen Stock OBE, philosophy academic and author of Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism, is right, the stories trans activists tell each other and expect the rest of us to believe are fictions, albeit of a particular kind.
Material Girls was published last month to immense fanfare (and controversy) and, while it is broadly feminist in outlook, Stock’s feminism is disciplined and thoughtful. She is the first feminist advocate I’ve encountered even to entertain the possibility that stereotypically gendered behaviour has biological origins. She also acknowledges the extent to which the transgender mess has roots in feminism’s historical tendency to make political claims unmoored from scientific or statistical facts. The most egregious is an attempt to argue that ovaries and breasts are incidental to being a woman. This argument was a product of career-oriented feminism – still the most publicly popular variety – that sought to decouple womanhood from biological femaleness with a view to prising labour markets open. Transactivists have seized on this and are now making the claim that ovaries and breasts are irrelevant to being a woman: female is a feeling.
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lemonkettaz said:
The guy changing to Korean, however mad it is, I don't actually have a problem with it, tbh the reasoning was that they are happy being Korean, so in a free world fair enough, obviously everyone knows he isn't Korean so doesn't really matter..the transgender competition element is an issue, its an issue that is blindingly obvious to people with a brain. Personally I don't think in examples like the blatant bloke weightlifting amongst women should be allowed...

But the kid wanting to be Korean... do what you want tbh.
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How is he not a Korean though? by the argument of some people in this thread if he feels Korean in his mind, acts and looks the part then genetics and biological truths/scientific facts don't matter.
 
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mmj_uk said:
How is he not a Korean though? by the argument of some people in this thread if he feels Korean in his mind, acts and looks the part then genetics and biological truths/scientific facts don't matter.
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I don't take lunacy on board. He is not Korean, regardless of how much he "feels" Korean. Either way, that instance is harmless.
 
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