Do you think the statutory rapist consciously chooses to want to rape a child? He has his own mental perspective, just like you do, I do, transgenders do, etc.
Right.
But that is not the arguement. When a rapist has urges, those urges are presumed to be natural and his or her "mental perspective", we can agree. Those urges do not harm anyone unless they turn into action which then does harm the victim.
If you have urges to rape, murder, do anything that brings harm to others, it does not mean you just get to freely act on those natural urges with some sort of pass.
The action of going through gender reassignment (the act in response to the natural "urge" and "mental perspective") does not directly "harm" anyone or society like the rapist act in response to the urges does.
I suppose the arguement would be that competing as a trans woman against non trans woman would "harm" the non trans woman, and that is the debate going on here...
Even then we are talking harm in competitive sports vs physical and mental harm caused by a traumatizing event. In MMA where the harm could be a little more extreme than other sports, it becomes an excellent case to study. Will a trans woman do more damage than an non trans woman in the cage/ring? Doesn't seem so from the debate I have been reading here but I am still far from educated on the matter.
Plus, if the woman knows and accepts a fight with a trans woman, doesn't this become moot.
a man who identifies with or has had a sex change is not a female. they should compete as whatever they were born as or there should be a transgender class in bjj/mma.
to any man who says "i identify with being female, therefore i am female and will live as one". sorry but that does not make you female
take that same argument but instead it is some 45 year old guy "i identify with being a 12 year old, therefore i am 12 and can legally have sex with other 12 year olds". people would have quite a different reaction but it is the same shit.
No. There is no "age reassignment" to make someone who identifies with being 12 actually become a 12 year old.
What you fail to understand is that a man who identifies as a woman actually does believe themself to be a woman and once they go through the surgery and treatment, the man becomes a female by more than just what they feel. From what I understand, they have the mental and physical attributes of a woman.