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Should women be allowed to go topless at beaches in Massachusetts?
At least one member of the Massachusetts legislature thinks so.
In the past several months, several state and federal lawmakers outside of Massachusetts have announced bills that would ban so-called "transgender athletes" from participating in women's high school and college sports.
While such decisions clearly mark short-term tactical victories for defenders of women's sports, conservative lawmakers' continued use of the term "transgender athlete" actually helps to solidify a strategic defeat in the long run. This is so because such terminology tacitly concedes that there actually exists a new metaphysical category of person ("transgender athlete") in addition to just males and females, when there in fact is no such category or type of person whatsoever.