Today’s paragraph comes to us from Oliver Brown, writing for London’s Daily (I think) Telegraph.
Mr. Brown’s latest article concerns the final of Ultimate Pool Women’s Pro Series Event in Wigan, UK.
Why would this be of any interest to anyone but pool enthusiasts in that town? Because both of the “woman” finalists were men who decided to identify as women. Biological women were shut out.
Here is one very telling paragraph of what Mr. Brown had to say about it:
Whether or not you regard pool as a fringe pursuit is immaterial. This is a category issue: sports are organised by sex to reflect the fact that, in physiology, men and women are immutably different, with profound implications for fairness. The travesty of Harriet Haynes and Lucy Smith facing off for a female title despite both being born male sends a stark signal: that if you continue to enable this erosion of fairness in the name of inclusion, the last people standing in women’s sport will be men.
Pool is obviously the tip of the iceberg. Men who decide, against biology/reality, are women, if allowed to do so will dominate just about all women’s events; certainly the physical ones. Biological women will be pushed to the side. In their own events.
Does that seem fair to you? Logical? Sane?
I award Oliver Brown Paragraph Of The Day honors for stating the problem as clearly as he does. Too bad it won’t penetrate the “wokeness” of some people, but that’s the way things go these days.
