Mastodawn

Been thinking about it since I saw JK Rowling posted this yesterday about the IOC's new policy, calling Imane Khelif a man. Imane Khelif was born female. She was raised as a girl. Her original birth certificate says female. She's always been a woman. But sure. "Men punching women."

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Parker Molloy 2d ago

There's a respectful version of this conversation. You could say: "This woman may have a genetic trait that confers a competitive advantage, and we should figure out how to handle that fairly." That's a real discussion. Have it.

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Parker Molloy 2d ago

But that's not what's happening. They're calling her a man. A girl born female who didn't even know she carried the SRY gene for most of her life. A man, apparently.

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Parker Molloy 2d ago

This is mission creep. It started with "trans women shouldn't compete in women's sports." Even that conversation can be had without calling trans women "men."

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Parker Molloy 2d ago

But now it's crept into "any woman who fails a DNA test is actually a man." They're not protecting women's sports. They're policing womanhood itself.

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WesDym

@parkermolloy.com I'm old enough to remember when it was DNA tests that were the suspect new weird gender science, at a time when what a birthroom doctor made of a newborn's genitals was 99% of the law, and not much less of what passed for gender medicine at the time. A lot has changed since then, but ignorant jerks still want us all using the technology of ten thousand years ago, because it's asking too much of them to consider that they just might not know everything.