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.
@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.
@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.