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.
@hacks4pancakes Agreed 100%. I’m appalled at the hatred I see.
@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.

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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.

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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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