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by AnimalMuppet 244 days ago
But interpreting male and female according to some other criteria would also not be ideologically neutral.

If your point is that the standards are not neutral, I guess on at least this point I have to agree. If your point is that the status quo is neutral, I disagree.
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twixfel 244 days ago
The status quo is that the universities themselves decide. That is clearly more neutral than the government dictating to them.
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AnimalMuppet 243 days ago
Was that true? Did the universities themselves decide? Or was at least some of the support for trans "ideology" (I don't know what better word to use, but I'm not happy with this one either) due to pressure from the government? [Edit: Maybe trans "movement" is what I wanted to say.]

True, it was less pressure and more subtle than Trump's pressure. And it was in the direction that the universities were more willing to move in, due to the personnel of universities leaning left. But was it really "the universities themselves decide"? I'm not sure that it was.

But I will agree to this at least: Left to themselves, the universities were not likely to wind up where Trump is trying to push them to be.

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IAmBroom 243 days ago
You insinuate that the federal government exerted pressure on colleges to conform to pro-trans-rights ideologies, with "less pressure and more subtle".

Cite any pressure from the federal government.

You're engaging in a version of BSABSVR argumentation.

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