vocabulary lessons

[kanzeon_2040]

I'm becoming entirely fatigued by the online (both social media and mass media) fights over the definitions of "sex" and "gender" and related words like pronouns and other related concepts. I'm glad the people I know in real life don't fight about this stuff

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[matrixmann]

The thing with transwomen in sports is that their body's - most of them - is rather comparable to a female which once was under the influence of doping.
A past with a male body development and a high dosage of testosterone remains noticeably even years and decades after being under no no such influence anymore.

And, I tell you from own experience meanwhile - testosterone works. It truely gives you more physical power. It strengthens muscle development.

So, if men and women competed in sports in the same category, in sports where the physical circumstances matter, it would result in men mostly making it to the top places.
Just because their body's are capable to achieve more - get more out of what they naturally have.

Regarding the bathroom issue...

The segregation may result from ancient (maybe Christian) times already; even though there is to say - it's better this way than lumping all people together.
The reason for this is quite clear: Most men would start approaching the women, enough of them without checking or caring for the consent of the females. - Just because the majority of men is heterosexual. They react to female stimuli.
And testosterone - I can tell from own exprrience again - ups the activity of the sex drive notably if you're under active influence of it (so, not in the past matters, the current status matters). Not just in the brain, also physically.

So... To you this may seem rather like a "Where's the problem to behave?". That's just because you're gay and you could, perhaps, be in the same room with women taking some pieces of clothes off because your subconscious and your body wouldn't react to this stimuli.
For heterosexual men, this wouldn't apply like that.
It would be a very individual thing if a heterosexual man behaved himself and didn't do a thing to the women in the same room.
And so this would become a thing you couldn't guarantee.
Therefore - separate bathrooms and dressing rooms.

By the way - think of exclusively female bodyfunctions. Periods and breastfeeding.
It already is a problem in the English-speaking countries (well, maybe except for those countries of the UK) if a father with a baby enters a room that countrains a diaper-changing table if, at the same time, this room is intended for women to withdraw when breastfeeding. Because the women fear the man to peep on their breasts.
So - then start thinking what may be if men and women were always lumped together in the same dressing rooms or bathrooms...
The blame is not just on the male side for this. Women wouldn't like it either because they distrust men more than another woman in the same room (even if today it the option existed that another women could peep and grope on a woman too).
Same-sex harassment is still way less probable than harassment by a member of the other sex because the majority of people is heterosexual.

(I need to point at this because - if living in a gay cosmos for a long time, one may tend to forget the issues in the realm of those which are heterosexual...)

[kanzeon_2040]

I always appreciate your perspectives.