It is a damning indictment of white feminism that we're finally seeing someone properly stick it to JK Rowling and it's a 25 year old Algerian woman.

There are so many people in the world who have more power than Imane Khelif. So much more. Fucking piles and piles of power laying around, doing fuck all.

And all she wanted to do was box, but she's going to stand up for herself anyway.

And once again, we will all benefit from the work of women of colour.

And SO HELP ME GOD if one more fucking lefty dude points out that Imane Khelif didn't stand up and shout TRANS RIGHTS on Algerian television, they will fucking regret it.

@detachedspork

Imane Khelif's ordeal is adjacent to the struggle for trans rights, but it isn't the same. There is a concurrent struggle for women to be allowed to visually present and behave in public without the degree of persecution they face being directly tied to their adherence to European brood-spouse standards.
Many trans people experience this struggle as well, but the issue of whether niche expressions of gender conformity should be a passport to public life is a larger umbrella.

@detachedspork

Ella Emhoff is another person in that same situation.

Fighting for free clearance for authentic self representation in public, decentering those who would police expression according to arbitrary gender ideas, is important work that frees people to contribute their best selves to society. It's the tail of the same beast that Katherine Hepburn was fighting.

http://archive.org/details/movieclassic04moti/page/n239/mode/2up?view=theater

Movie Classic (Mar-Jul 1933) : Motion Picture Publications, Inc. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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@detachedspork

The treatment she was subjected to infuriates me beyond reason. It’s so low to just base it of looks.

I can only give Khelif accolades for the integrity of her demeanour. Suing X and Rowling is a good way forward. Keeping people responsible for their actions is the only way forward. Words have meaning, especially if you have a huge following.