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The national conversation over transgender students’ inclusion in student athletics and school facilities has received unparalleled levels of attention in the past weeks. Some transgender advocates argue affording equal rights to transgender students requires forcing public schools to allow transgender students access to the sports team, the locker room, and the bathroom that matches the gender the trans student identifies with. Others oppose such mandatory access, arguing that treating transgender boys who identify as girls the same as biological girls undermines hard-fought women’s gains in developing women’s sports and safety-protections.
Join us for a discussion between Shannon Minter, transgender rights advocate and Legal Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and Lauren Adams, noted feminist advocate and Legal Counsel at Women’s Liberation Front.
Featuring:
— Shannon Minter, Legal Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights
— Lauren Adams, Legal Counsel, Women’s Liberation Front
— Moderator: Hon. Kenneth L. Marcus, Founder and Chairman, Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law
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I must admit that I blurted out an obscenity when Shannon Minter asserted that no one has ever faked a transgender identity. I hope someone mentions the obvious prison cases in the remaining minutes of the podcast.
Hell, if I were in a men’s prison I would start claiming that I’m a woman “inside”, too. Men’s prisons are dangerous!
When transgender MMA fighter Fallon Fox, who had undergone surgery, destroyed two women fighters, breaking the skull of one and ending the careers of both, Fox’s evident sincerity in transitioning was irrelevant.
Update: Lauren Adams did mention the extremely questionable transitioning of male sex criminals to female in prison, but Shannon Minter basically went on denying their existence anyway.
Adams pointed out that the sincerity of someone’s claim of transgenderism is only of limited relevance. If a woman prisoner is raped, she doesn’t care if the rapist is a man insincerely pretending to be transgender woman, or a sincere transgender lesbian with a penis.