myrmepropagandist2d ago

The vast majority of people who will be impacted by trans bans in sports will be little girls with short hair or arms that are "too muscular."

It will also mean that when a woman is good at her sport the disgusting grumbling and whispering about "may she is he" gets taken more seriously.

This happened with Paula Radcliffe for running marathons too fast. If it helps you to think of a white cis woman being the victim of this.

Of course little black girls will take the brunt of this. As ever.

Show threadsecretsloth
@futurebird yeah. This happened to a girl at my school growing up, constantly. She was white, but just looked too masculine. Parents on other teams complained at games and kept making accusations. I don't know how they handled it but I assume eventually they must have had something on file and ready because it was so consistent. I think about her so much now. It must be so much more common these days, like, have we learned nothing from the harms bullying has done?
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Show threadsecretsloth2d ago
@futurebird and now we are opening new avenues to allow *adults* to bully children en masse, not just other children. What on earth.
Show threadMagnus Ahltorp2d ago
@secretsloth @futurebird The world is unfortunately full of bullies in powerful positions that have no interest in making bullying stop. Almost all adults talk about bullying as a problem, but they only want to talk about it, not actually do anything.
Show threadsecretsloth2d ago
@ahltorp @futurebird I have noticed this. In my own young days, they would also only intervene if they felt you hadn't brought the bullying on yourself - as if anyone deserves to be bullied. I suspect this is still true now. Authority figures only protect selectively. And I'm betting that anyone marginalized is selectively not protected. So "fix bullying" is probably heavily coded for "don't bully white/cis/het/abled/kids who conform to the expected social norms, bully anyone else until they do"
Show threadElizabeth Sudduth2d ago
@secretsloth @futurebird I have a friend whose daughter is over 6 feet (as are both her parents) who got it constantly. The school actually tried to make her use a different restroom to stop the complaints. It was awful.
Show threadsecretsloth2d ago
@hydropsyche @futurebird that's unforgivable. It shouldn't matter! If the answer is to make restrooms into non shared spaces, which maybe they should be, just, like, maybe we should all get a little more privacy in there? Then *that* should be the solution. Convert bathrooms into single occupancy spaces, period, end of. Nobody gets to be the genital police. Areas that bathing suits cover are private. One elementary school lesson that carries through to this day.