quantumloverTransgender women athletes banned from women’s Olympic events by new IOC policy
ZozanoI’m of two minds about this:
First, let people compete in comparative tier skill events. We have different weight classes for boxing, why should other sports be any different?
Second, who fucking cares? Sports are literally just physical games which have become the victim of capitalism, and the Olympics added nationalism and implicit racial perspectives.
You will never see a Japanese woman winning the 100m sprint. Should we have another category for Asian sprinters? Maybe? But at some point you need to realise:
NONE OF THIS SHIT MATTERS.
Most of these athletes are doing drugs anyway lol.
who fucking cares?
Transphobes care about it, a lot. The material changes may be minimal, and harm cis women more than they’ll harm trans women. But they use the “sports issue” as a way to introduce the idea of excluding trans people from public life to mainstream debate. Here’s prominent transphobe Helen Joyce admitting to it publicly: