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Comment by plank_time | Hacker News Reader

I think we should accommodate trans people as much as we can, up to and including letting them be legally be considered the sex of their belief as long as they have transitioned to some degree, by taking hormones or surgery.

However, I disagree with getting rid of biological sex. It’s absurd. Even down to the genetic level there is a biological definition of male and female and to say there isn’t is anti-science. We shouldn’t destroy science over this.

Because of that I also don’t believe that trans women should be allowed to compete in competitive sports especially those that have dedicated their lives towards it. To put it in perspective, Serena Williams, one of the greatest if not the greatest tennis athlete of all time. She and Venus Williams were destroyed in her prime by the 200th ranked tennis player. The male tennis player felt like they were equivalent to a 600th ranked male player. The point being, you can’t make up for some genetic differences between men and women.

>I think we should accommodate trans people as much as we can, up to and including letting them be legally be considered the sex of their belief as long as they have transitioned to some degree, by taking hormones or surgery.

See as they make up a smaller minority than most minority people in the US, I personally think that helping poor and working class people first would uplift them a lot quicker than letting trans people be trans. I mean it's great an all you get to be your own gender, but everybody will despise you knowing you got that way by tax payer money. If you got that way through working and paid for it yourself but were able to via worker protections and rights, the cultural stigma around it would be significantly far less vitriolic.

I don’t think there’s an if/else clause. Allowing trans women to legally be claimed as women is really just an adjustment in a database, as well as just treating people the way they want to be treated. It doesn’t cost anything to be respectful to people regardless of who they are.

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>up to and including letting them be legally be considered the sex of their belief as long as they have transitioned to some degree

What you're suggesting is something simple. What the parent was suggesting was 1% of the population multiplied by $40k+ in surgeries and drugs leading up to $120million for funding people transitioning meanwhile telling lower class people who work at crappy general labor jobs "yeah just pull yourself up by your bootstraps."

Universally we can agree, helping all of the working class helps out all minorities seeing as most minorities are...working class.

> I think we should accommodate trans people as much as we can, up to and including letting them be legally be considered the sex of their belief as long as they have transitioned to some degree, by taking hormones or surgery.

Why do you think it's any of your business what other people do with their body?

> To put it in perspective, Serena Williams, one of the greatest if not the greatest tennis athlete of all time. She and Venus Williams were destroyed in her prime by the 200th ranked tennis player.

Looks like she is only the 201th greatest tennis player.

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