Lesley Carhart Aug 4, 2024
I’m honestly shaken at the number of infosec people, particularly women, who are endorsing and spouting Russian transphobic misinformation about Olympic athletes with added hateful TERF rhetoric. In public, right in front of queer and trans peers. Some I used to consider friends. We all see all of it. It’s absolute hell for trans community members. We need to be calling this crap out for what it is.
Show threadWendy Nather
@hacks4pancakes Agreed 100%. I’m appalled at the hatred I see.
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Show threadLesley Carhart Aug 4, 2024
@wendynather they are outing themselves and it’s awful. Imagine your definition of a “real woman” being so narrow it doesn’t even include a person with female genitalia who was raised, lives, and identifies as a woman in an anti queer country, based on a dubious genetic debate from an untrustworthy source.
Show threadPeterAug 4, 2024
@hacks4pancakes @wendynather this specific case is really shaping up to show exactly how absurdly some people have chosen to twist their "rules".
Show threadwb x64Aug 4, 2024
@phpete @hacks4pancakes @wendynather my favorite meme on this topic so far
Show threadLesley Carhart Aug 4, 2024
@wilbr @phpete @wendynather they always forget trans men and masc enbys exist
Show threadwb x64Aug 4, 2024
@hacks4pancakes @phpete @wendynather sometimes I wonder if that's by convenience, ignorance, ideology or malicious intent, but then I realize I'm spending a bit too much time and energy trying to understand the mind of an asshole
Show threadPeterAug 4, 2024

@wilbr @hacks4pancakes @wendynather and generally, an asshole who won't be responding to a logical argument anyway.

I too often fail to avoid the "but I'd really like to understand where the fuck you're coming from" time suck, but that's really all it is - a complete waste of time.

Show threadwb x64Aug 4, 2024
@phpete @hacks4pancakes @wendynather I shared this comic on Instagram today and one of my friends from the Bible Belt responded and thanked me for it. Earlier she had shared something saying that the boxer was trans and this cleared up some misconceptions she had, and gave me an opportunity to clear up a few other common myths. It definitely gives me a little hope that some people care, but maybe get bad information.
Show threadСкобиформ  🇪🇺Aug 4, 2024
@wilbr @phpete @hacks4pancakes @wendynather Did she give consent to be the poster girl for trans and intersex? Stop causing more damage.
Show threadBecca 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 🇵🇸Aug 4, 2024
@wilbr @hacks4pancakes @phpete @wendynather
At this point in time (and with the number of educational resources at their disposal) always assume malicious intent AND ideology (racism, xenophobia, transphobia, and misogyny are all coming mostly from the same "people").
Show threadSteffen ChristensenAug 4, 2024
@hacks4pancakes @wilbr @phpete @wendynather Those populations' existence do not help their cause (grifting for likes and cash), so they just pretend they don't.
Show threadyuki - queen of the snowAug 4, 2024
@wilbr @phpete @hacks4pancakes @wendynather do you have a quote for that? if her past transphobic writings are anything to go by, this will be a funny read just to decipher whatever the hell she is trying to say
Show threadwb x64Aug 4, 2024
@yukijoou @hacks4pancakes @wendynather @phpete I don't, I try to avoid giving her eyeballs, this is more the general vibe of past arguments vs the current discourse about the Olympic boxer. Simply asserting that the current person being harassed is or isn't a man or woman with flimsy, no, or inconsistent evidence. I've seen screenshots of her recent posts but they're surely unfulfilling
Show threadPrincess UnikittyAug 4, 2024

@hacks4pancakes @wendynather

I feel so bad for everyone (trans and cis) catching flak from this. The right-wing noise machine kicked into overdrive over this and it's so gross.

https://kolektiva.social/@unikitty/112901056346692991

Princess Unikitty (@[email protected])

Major newspapers coming out with corrections cause they said an athlete was trans when she isn't. Right-wingers uncritically and unapologetically pushing their #weird obsession; attacking someone based on non-specific russian boxing org statements. Wild moment to be alive. Sorry to everyone for whom this hits extra-close to home :heart_trans:

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Show threadWendy NatherAug 4, 2024
@hacks4pancakes It’s complete bullshit. NOBODY gets to decide your gender except you. I dare anybody to try to walk up to me and tell me I’m not a woman based on the fact that I have no breasts. I won’t even bother putting on my old boxing gloves before I respond.
Show threadHTTP 1.1/418 Old Teapot Typewriter FontAug 4, 2024
@wendynather @hacks4pancakes Fuck yeah. Same here with regard to my lack of ovaries/uterus. I’ve happily used this outlier status in more than one conversation about gender stuff to “well, actually” at folks, too.
Show threadJima Aug 4, 2024

@hacks4pancakes @wendynather The word "dubious" here is, IMO, extremely charitable. 😒

I'd have gone with "disingenuous," myself.