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Michael Shermer on Transgender Athletes in Sports

The Forward

CHAPTER

The Slippery Slope of Conflicting Rights

Transgender rights are human rights. But not all rights are the same and you can't have everything you want in life, right? So you have pro-choice pro-life on the abortion issue. Who's right? Well, science can't really settle that. It's a political issue. And so trans women, trans women are women and they should be able to do what they want. They shouldn't be fired for being trans on the job. The strength that is built there,. the endurance is built there, the cardiovascular, as you said, that's built there. There you get then, you know, conflicting rights.

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