myrmepropagandistMar 29

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 threadmyrmepropagandistMar 29

I bring up Paula Radcliffe because she was targeted despite HAVING KIDS and being very conventional looking as if that should matter.

The only thing she did wrong was train better and be a total badass who could lay down sub fives til the end of time. Amazing runner. She was just ... good.

And we know girls can't be good, right?

Show threadSemitonesMar 29
@futurebird Just last night, heard an otherwise liberal old man talk about that swimmer who transitioned mtf, waited a year, and moved up in the ranking from 250 to 13.(*) The implication: men have a biological advantage in swimming fast, and mtf individuals competing is unfair. The alternative: *some people* have a biological advantage in swimming fast. Some women are faster than some men. Why consider being born AMAB as more important than being born with large feet? (*)misleading, see replies
Show threadElizabeth SudduthMar 29

@semitones @futurebird He was lying by omission anyway. Thomas was a highly ranked swimmer before she started transitioning. The 250 rank came after beginning hormones but before she was allowed to compete as a woman.

"During her freshman year, Thomas recorded a time of eight minutes and 57.55 seconds in the 1,000-yard freestyle that ranked as the sixth-fastest national men's time..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lia_Thomas

Lia Thomas - Wikipedia

Show threadSemitonesMar 29
@hydropsyche @futurebird Knowing this person, I don't think they knew this information and chose to admit it. They probably only heard the unfavorable part of the story to begin with.
Show threadElizabeth SudduthMar 29

@semitones @futurebird That's what social media and generative AI have done to people. Nobody bothers to actually research anything for themselves. They report as truth what somebody said on Facebook or what ChatGPT told them. It takes two minutes to read Lia Thomas's Wikipedia article, a few more minutes if you want to click through to the sources and learn even more.

It's not hard to be well informed. But it's so damn easy to just repeat easy lies that support your bigotry.

Show threadSemitonesMar 29
@hydropsyche @futurebird add to that that we are all overworked, busy, and addicted to social media. Who's going to fact check something that sounds plausible according to their worldview, and isn't that important to them personally?
Show threadMagnus Ahltorp
@semitones @hydropsyche The Cinderella principle. Make us work so hard that we don’t have the time or energy to do anything about our situation.
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