11 Oct In this moral quandry (where the trans athlete remains biologically male), make an argument for whose rights to compete in female school sports should be protected, and why.? Why should t
Prompt: In this moral quandry (where the trans athlete remains biologically male), make an argument for whose rights to compete in female school sports should be protected, and why. Why should the other group (the group that will lose the ability to compete in your answer) let go of their desires in the situation? And what will be the long-term consequences to society of your answer? Do you have an alternative that might please both sides? Your answer will likely be somehow connected with whether you believe there is objective truth in the world (like the chromosomes of sex) or whether you believe in a more Nietzschean/Postmodern unreality in which individuals define their own realities.
These two short videos might help get your thinking started. There's one on each side of the debate. In your answer, please try to show me that you watched the video material, and include one other properly cited source to support your answer.
Watch the video here, which clearly sides with the female athletes against the transgendered students. Then watch the trailer below to a new movie called Changing the Game which sides with the transgendered athletes.
Background: We talked in this unit about power narratives, identity politics, critical theory, and balancing power between empowered and underempowered social groups. Two of those groups experiencing power struggle are female athletes and TRANS female athletes who are not yet fully biologically female. That is, they retain the biochemistry of maleness–which is often the case of school-aged athletes. In some school districts around the country, biological males who live as females are being
Note: Please do not write this Journal Response until after you have studied the Derrida & Postmodernism materials so that you can answer with that background.
During the semester, you will be asked to answer ANY TWO unit Journal prompts. You might wish to read all four unit journal promts first so you can decide which two you are most interested in writing about because you can only answer the unit question during that unit.
· Include at least ONE properly cited source to help strengthen your answer. Use the TRAAP guidelines here to test the appropriateness of your source(s).
· Try to let me know in you read The Madman, linked at the top of the Unit 3 folder.
· Try to let me know in your answer that you watched both videos.
Background: We talked in this unit about power narratives, identity politics, critical theory, and balancing power between empowered and underempowered social groups. Two of those groups experiencing power struggle are female athletes and TRANS female athletes who are not yet fully biologically female. That is, they retain the biochemistry of maleness–which is often the case of school-aged athletes. In some school districts around the country, biological males who live as females are being allowed to compete in female sports, usually unseating the females from their years of training to acquire championships and college scholarships. Quite often, these biological males were unable to make the boys' teams but are finding great success on the girls' teams. Until recently, the International Olympic Committee mandated that biological males must be chemically transformed to being female before competing in women's Olympic sports, but even they have recently relented in a few cases, allowing competitors who are not yet transitioned to compete as women. So, we have two interest groups–the biological females (who fought for decades to have equal sports in schools), and the trans females who are not yet transitioned (who understandably wish to participate in sports as the gender by which they have chosen to live their lives).
Prompt: In this moral quandry (where the trans athlete remains biologically male), make an argument for whose rights to compete in female school sports should be protected, and why. Why should the other group (the group that will lose the ability to compete in your answer) let go of their desires in the situation? And what will be the long-term consequences to society of your answer? Do you have an alternative that might please both sides? Your answer will likely be somehow connected with whether you believe there is objective truth in the world (like the chromosomes of sex) or whether you believe in a more Nietzschean/Postmodern unreality in which individuals define their own realities.
These two short videos might help get your thinking started. There's one on each side of the debate. In your answer, please try to show me that you watched the video material, and include one other properly cited source to support your answer.
Watch the video he re , which clearly sides with the female athletes against the transgendered students. Then watch the trailer below to a new movie called Changing the Game which sides with the transgendered athletes.
