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.