I always thought that IF the trans athlete argument was actually about fairness, if we compromised on that and kept our rights and healthcare, I could live with that. But it was never about athletics. We all know they won’t stop at children and our best chance is put to g ourselves in front of vulnerable trans kids.
"For Carthage also was a high civilisation, indeed a much more highly
civilised civilisation. And Carthage also founded that civilisation on
a religion of fear, sending up everywhere the smoke of human sacrifice.
... But without dwelling much longer in these dark corners,
it may be noted as not irrelevant here that certain anti-human
antagonisms seem to recur in this tradition of black magic.
There may be suspected as running through it everywhere,
for instance, a mystical hatred of the idea of childhood.
... The Hebrew prophets were perpetually protesting against
the Hebrew race relapsing into an idolatry that involved such a war
upon children... in the form of what is called ritual murder...
This sense that the forces of evil especially threaten childhood
is found again in the enormous popularity of the Child Martyr
of the Middle Ages. ... The civilisation that centered in Tyre
and Sidon was above all things practical.... They believed,
in the appropriate modern phrase, in people who delivered the goods.
In their dealings with their god Moloch, they themselves were always
careful to deliver the goods. It was an interesting transaction,
upon which we shall have to touch more than once in the rest of
the narrative; it is enough to say here that it involved the theory
I have suggested, about a certain attitude towards children."
G.K.Chesterton "The Everlasting Man", Chapter VI "The Demons
and the Philosophers"
I always thought that IF the trans athlete argument was actually about fairness, if we compromised on that and kept our rights and healthcare, I could live with that. But it was never about athletics. We all know they won’t stop at children and our best chance is put to g ourselves in front of vulnerable trans kids.
Yep 🫤