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Flat White

Transgender athletes: cheats and sophists

18 January 2019

7:57 AM

18 January 2019

7:57 AM

The problem with trying to accommodate every individual’s feelings and desires is that biological realities must eventually be ignored. To afford transgender athletes a place in female competition is as morally reprehensible as it is intellectually dishonest.

In addition to being grossly inequitable for women, it is symptomatic of a culture allowing emotion to reconstruct its logical and ethical parameters.

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