The furor over trans women athletes outperforming their biologically female counterparts raises even larger questions, like:
Why is gender presented to us as a mutable attribute, something based solely on our own state of mind about ourselves, while race is viewed as utterly unchangeable?
Is this view based on biology, or is it merely a cultural opinion, something we've come to accept, perhaps in rejection of biological realities of the nature of gender and race?
Is it valid to decry a white woman 'passing' as black as wearing blackface while at the same time, accepting a man 'passing' as a woman, as a woman, and if so, why?
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