Desire and Fate
The ongoing destruction of women’s sports brought about by the refusal to exclude trans women who, no matter how they “identify” themselves, are much more often than not in another class physically from those with whom they are competing, exemplifies the old joke about how if the theory does not fit the facts, then so much the worse for the facts. The great ethical mistake of our age is imagining there can meaningful inclusion without some principle of exclusion. Or as the psychoanalysts used to put it, there is no real yes without a real no.