To clarify, the pictured poster Caroline Kwan is an ally, not a TERF. The TERFs referred to in the title are the ones ‘protecting a very specific idea of what a woman is’
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We do, we have the Para-Olympics. But, it seems you're conflating being good with being scrutinized. The better you are in a protected class, the more you should be scrutinized to retain the class protection. It does not mean you will be disqualified... You may be the best ever in that protected class.
We could make a lazy couch division if we wanted to. I don't think anyone wants that.
Para-Olympics are divisions for people with disabilities. It's not for people without advantages (and I'm not saying there should be, just posing a hypothetical). If we don't allow the best women to compete because they're too advantaged, doesn't that also imply we should have other divisions for less advantaged people too?
Obviously the woman thing we're seeing is just conservatives policing what the idea of a woman is though. They don't actually care about the women or the sport. They were not watching women's MMA (or whatever the event was) before this happened. It still does bring into consideration what divisions we should have though, and whether women's division actually makes sense to have or if it should be something else, and what that should be. We don't have divisions for socio-economic status despite that playing a large role in most sports. Should we?
Just saying it was another type of protected division. I agree, the men's division is also protected to some degree from PED users. There is no clean solution. I like someone else's post about Heap Problems. It's clear there are naturally occurring classes of athlete, but the lines we draw are arbitrary, and that's just how it is. Just like any other science experiment, we must pick and choose variables that make the most sense, as we cannot infinitely slice.