Transgenders: Judge Them by Their Brains, Not Genitals - Wash Post

WASHINGTON - May 2, 2023 - PRLog -- In deciding whether a person with a penis should be able to shower with girls and women, serve time in a women's (not men's) prison, compete against females in (especially contact) sports, and attend colleges reserved for women, a Washington Post article claims we should decide based upon their brains rather than their biology.

Or as trans author Jennifer Finney Boylan put it: "what's in your pants is less important than what's between your ears."

In support of this claim, the author cites one study of adolescents who all had gender dysphoria whose sense of smell is different from those without the disorder.

But even if the writer - who expertise is as a professor of English and who says "I've been maybe three or four different women" - is correct that the brains of those who claim to be M2F transgendered are somehow different from those of males (e.g. in smelling some hormones), that doesn't begin to address the main reasons why we have and probably will continue separation based upon genitalia.

Having a different sense of smell, or even a different brain, has nothing with the embarrassment and invasion of sexual privacy a girl naturally and logically experiences if she has to shower or change clothes next to a person with a penis.

That's why, for example, even males who, because they are gay/homosexual have brains which react differently upon seeing an undressed or even scantily-clad female than a typical male brain, are not permitted to shower, share locker rooms, or even use public restrooms set aside for girls and women, says public interest law professor John Banzhaf, who notes that the law recognizes this fundamental truism.

A person's brain or identity perceptions also doesn't lessen the unfairness when a person who went through puberty with a body bathed and shaped by male hormones which mushroomed his size, muscle mass, heart and circulatory system, etc., is able to compete against girls and/or women who are typically smaller and far less muscular than male competitors in the sport.

Prof Banzhaf's  published legal analysis provided three important reasons (https://www.valuewalk.com/a-major-new-third-argument-agai...) why males should not be able to compete in female sports events.

In SPORTS LAW EXPERT - Professor Maintains that Trans Athletes Causing Serious Injuries to Girls (https://sportslawexpert.com/2022/12/12/professor-maintain...):

JOHN F. BANZHAF III, B.S.E.E., J.D., Sc.D.
Professor of Public Interest Law Emeritus
George Washington University Law School
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