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These states are enacting laws to regulate a non-problem. In 50 years people will look back and wonder why such idiotic laws were enacted.

I agree it is a non-problem. However, given the number of idiotic laws that have been enacted over the years I doubt anyone will wonder why this one was. Fixing non-problems is a politicians bread and butter. When it turns out to not be a problem they can take credit for "solving" it.

Yes, idiotic laws are now a mandatory part of the government landscape.  Learn to love it.

As a matter of natural law, men have a right to:

• fantasize about being women;
  
• think of themselves as women;
  
• dress as women;
  
• adopt what they deem to be women's names;
  
• request that others think of or refer to them as women;
  
• prefer the company of women;
  
• castrate themselves or undergo other voluntary, surgical modifications; and,
  
• ingest chemicals to whatever ends they deem suitable to their purposes.
  

Mind you, none of the activities above can actually make a female of a male, but it is none of my concern if any male chooses to conduct his affairs in such a manner.

Also as a matter of natural law, however, women have a right to associate with whom they please, including in athletic competitions. Accordingly, women may choose to exclude men from their athletic competitions, and no man has a right to force them to do otherwise.

Any laws in conflict with these principles are indeed idiotic.

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These states are enacting laws to regulate a non-problem. In 50 years people will look back and wonder why such idiotic laws were enacted.

I agree it is a non-problem. However, given the number of idiotic laws that have been enacted over the years I doubt anyone will wonder why this one was. Fixing non-problems is a politicians bread and butter. When it turns out to not be a problem they can take credit for "solving" it.

Yes, idiotic laws are now a mandatory part of the government landscape.  Learn to love it.

As a matter of natural law, men have a right to:

• fantasize about being women;
  
• think of themselves as women;
  
• dress as women;
  
• adopt what they deem to be women's names;
  
• request that others think of or refer to them as women;
  
• prefer the company of women;
  
• castrate themselves or undergo other voluntary, surgical modifications; and,
  
• ingest chemicals to whatever ends they deem suitable to their purposes.
  

Mind you, none of the activities above can actually make a female of a male, but it is none of my concern if any male chooses to conduct his affairs in such a manner.

Also as a matter of natural law, however, women have a right to associate with whom they please, including in athletic competitions. Accordingly, women may choose to exclude men from their athletic competitions, and no man has a right to force them to do otherwise.

Any laws in conflict with these principles are indeed idiotic.

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None of the last three posts (which span both ends of the political spectrum) deal with Stanford, sports, or ideally Stanford sports.  Accordingly, I put a pause on this thread, pending discussion with the other mods.  A reminder that with a single narrow exception to discuss the war in Ukraine, the person who is responsible for the existence of this site has asked that people refrain from political topics.

BC

[BostonCard]

None of the last three posts (which span both ends of the political spectrum) deal with Stanford, sports, or ideally Stanford sports.  Accordingly, I put a pause on this thread, pending discussion with the other mods.  A reminder that with a single narrow exception to discuss the war in Ukraine, the person who is responsible for the existence of this site has asked that people refrain from political topics.

BC