In case you missed it, the New York Post published an open letter by “a large group of parents” from across five Ivy League schools, complaining about the inclusion of a biological male in this year’s NCAA women’s-swim championships. It’s excellent:
Athletic associations are cautiously asking: How do we balance fairness and inclusion? And they ask scientists to tell them the precise level to which a male body needs to be impaired to compete fairly against women.
But they are asking the wrong questions. These questions are misogynistic, degrading, and dehumanizing for women. There is no balance of fairness to assess. Women deserve fairness without caveat, and they should not be asked to shoulder the mental health of others at their own expense. A male body cannot become a female body. A woman is not a disadvantaged man.