In the competition between sex-based rights and gender identity, a striking asymmetry has become apparent: institutional, media, and cultural empathy flows heavily toward males claiming to be female, while complaints about the measurable losses imposed on females (displaced athletes, unsafe prisons and shelters, lack of dignity in single-sex spaces) are minimized, pathologized, or dismissed as bigotry. How did protecting the female category become secondary to affirming male identity claims? Wh

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I've tried to come up with the most concise way of framing what I see as the problem. And I just wasted 18 words claiming a desire for brevity. Ironic. My family has always argued/discussed politics and theology. If you asked my family, it is "discussed". If you asked our in-laws, it is "argued". Marrying into other families was my family's first clue that other people did not discuss .....anything. My in-laws didn't discuss. When they opened their mouths, it was to put food in them, or