On December 20 2012 19:33 Type|NarutO wrote:
Very well-worded post without offending anyone. Very good on that matter, have seen tons of other posts. Here's my finale take on it, as I already hat that discussion:
I consider Scarlett what she is now, a female. I do that due to respect towards her and her feelings. In the discussion about performance in sports its about ruling and I feel sorry to say so, but in any other competetive (physical) sports (Olympics for example) she would not be considered a female-athlete.
So in that matter, I really feel that we should think over what some people wrote, because even though she feels like a woman from when she can remember up to now, biologically born she's a male person. In an ideal world we should not have a difference in sports like ours (eSports) between men and women, but as it is, we have. I think its disrespectful to any 'REAL FEMALE' (biologically female) to have a male-born transgender, even though acceptable, taking away their results.
3 options in my opinion in eSports:
1) Don't judge based on gender
2) Judge based on gender, but then Scarlett clearly would need to list her achievements under the male aspect and also compete in mixed or male tournaments
3) Rate her as female, but thats ignoring that simple fact that she was born a man.
No hard feelings, just thought I'd write that out.
The bolded word should be replaced with woman, or trans woman if necessary. All this confusion that is typical for these discussions comes from what is essentially erroneous use of the word female. The English language is to blame.
The word female refers to sex, not gender, and humans cannot change their sex. You can change your listed assigned sex on your birth certificate, and you can undergo sex reassignment surgery and hormone therapy to alter your physical appearance to more closely resemble the sex matching your gender identity, but you cannot change your actual sex. You can even be intersex and a fully blown true hermaphrodite and undergo surgery, but you would still not be changing your sex. You are what you are, even if it cannot be easily classified.
Hence, Eve is a woman and a female, while Scarlett is a woman and not a female.
Edit: Also, thank you OP for bringing Eve's facebook to my attention. I'm totally e-stalking the shit out of her facebook pics right now. And her friends.