Mike, kudos for taking on the issue of the process vs outcome in contemporary leadership lore. If ever there was an urgency for a process orientation in human development education it is now when the lived context is chaotic, outcomes are impossible to predict and where elites appear to believe that their narcissistic ends more than just…
Mike, kudos for taking on the issue of the process vs outcome in contemporary leadership lore. If ever there was an urgency for a process orientation in human development education it is now when the lived context is chaotic, outcomes are impossible to predict and where elites appear to believe that their narcissistic ends more than justify means.
One more thing about fairness. It is not overrated. It is misunderstood. Fairness is not an individual good, it is relational . It is one of the earliest social sensibilities babies show. Toddlers will often object if one of their friends miss out on a treat. Fairness is social glue that holds communities and teams together as “we”. Good coaches know that and balance individual agency with fairness .
According to a 2024 UN report, “by 30 March 2024, over 600 female athletes in more than 400 competitions have lost more than 890 medals in 29 different sports" to men who believe they are women. Almost 900 medals. Try telling those 600 female athletes that fairness is overrated.
If this is true, then these competitions are clearly at different skill levels, in different places, under different governing bodies. In other words, these lost medals are clearly not all at an Olympic/elite level, else it would have been the only news to come out of last year’s Olympics (and the main “trans” athlete discussed last year was biologically intersex, not actually trans).
Whether history determines trans participation in sports to be “fair” or not, the fear of a cis person losing an athletic competition to a trans athlete has ludicrously led to real dehumanization of trans people as a whole.
I'm happy to review primary research if you cite your source or have a good faith debate about the challenges surrounding transgendered people in competitive sports, but your framing is prima facie nonsense and I suspect you have limited experience participating in or coaching at that level?
Mike, kudos for taking on the issue of the process vs outcome in contemporary leadership lore. If ever there was an urgency for a process orientation in human development education it is now when the lived context is chaotic, outcomes are impossible to predict and where elites appear to believe that their narcissistic ends more than justify means.
One more thing about fairness. It is not overrated. It is misunderstood. Fairness is not an individual good, it is relational . It is one of the earliest social sensibilities babies show. Toddlers will often object if one of their friends miss out on a treat. Fairness is social glue that holds communities and teams together as “we”. Good coaches know that and balance individual agency with fairness .
According to a 2024 UN report, “by 30 March 2024, over 600 female athletes in more than 400 competitions have lost more than 890 medals in 29 different sports" to men who believe they are women. Almost 900 medals. Try telling those 600 female athletes that fairness is overrated.
If this is true, then these competitions are clearly at different skill levels, in different places, under different governing bodies. In other words, these lost medals are clearly not all at an Olympic/elite level, else it would have been the only news to come out of last year’s Olympics (and the main “trans” athlete discussed last year was biologically intersex, not actually trans).
Whether history determines trans participation in sports to be “fair” or not, the fear of a cis person losing an athletic competition to a trans athlete has ludicrously led to real dehumanization of trans people as a whole.
I'm happy to review primary research if you cite your source or have a good faith debate about the challenges surrounding transgendered people in competitive sports, but your framing is prima facie nonsense and I suspect you have limited experience participating in or coaching at that level?