You know what? As a woman who’s had a sex change, I am so tired. I could not give a shit about this mods opinions or any of this topic from anybody.
It’s quite simply a topic that loses us support for emotional gut vibe reasons that have nothing to do with rationality. And for what?
I’ve never played women’s sports. Nobody trans I’ve ever met plays women’s sports because we’re all fucking afraid of it and always have been.
We are less than 1% of the population and of that 1% maybe 1% is anywhere near ballsy enough to even begin to try in this environment. It’s just not the hill anybody sane wishes to die on.
Are these people ignorant and on the wrong side of history here? Absolutely.
Have transsex people been playing sports for decades without issue and without dominating even one out of hundreds of different sports? Absolutely.
Are they just making shit up about transsex bodies based off nothing but unchecked stereotypes and ignorance because they only ever notice the most visible and non-passing ones and have no idea how many of us are stealth? 1000% you betcha.
And yet? I want everybody to shut up about it because we have far more pressing issues at hand. When it comes to women’s sports the public has made up their mind and the facts don’t matter.
We’re losing access to life saving medical care, being deplatformed, and criminalized for existing in public and y’all still think this is about pointless debates over sports.
Literally nobody in the trans community cares about this topic until conservatives discovered it was effective. Stop fighting this battle and start building networks to ensure everybody has means to survive the Nazis in coming years.
AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 25 minutes ago
Women’s sports are the main entryway for transphobic policymaking besides gender affirming care for minors. This is where they weasel in, this is where they normalize misgendering us and making bioessentialist claims that are the opposite of all the empirical evidence, this is how it starts. Not fighting back against sports bans is how we lost the American public on that front, it’s how we lost the American public on even the meekest compromise measures like puberty blockers, now they’re at striking down workplace discrimination protections and changing our documents. You do not get to pick and choose what’s a losing issue here, ofc they’ll start with the stuff that’s easiest to paint as contentious. Amerikans gave in there, it was the start of how they lost that fight. This is all or nothing. You stand with all of the community, even a tiny minority of trans athletes, or you do not stand with any of us. Does that mean we’ll win on all fronts? No, but we still have to resist on all fronts or we’re fucked. Do not give a single inch just because you personally don’t care or think you’re personally not affected, this is part of a bigger struggle and you’re not equipped to fight it if you don’t fix that.