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.
I don't understand how a woman in a sport like boxing can't understand that this kind of thinking always ends with "women are too fragile and must not do sports like boxing since it could harm their fertility, the only thing that matters obviously"
None of this will pause just to calm your personal level of prejudice.
If a woman can't take a hit from one person it's easy to say she can't take a hit from anyone. The female skull is too thin. The uterus might fall out place from the jarring motion. (This was a real concern raised about women running in marathons)
Do I need to post the photo of the race director physically grabbing Kathrine Switzer to stop her from running (it was embaressing since he and others had said that women simply could not run such a long race, although he would have claimed that she lied when she signed up so needed to be removed)
That was 1967 which isn't so long ago.
I think about this photo often.
"women could get hurt if they ran marathons"
ah now I see what you mean.
@futurebird For others, more about her here:
Her time was 4 hours and 20 minutes.
She ran the race 50 yrs later, at the age of 70, and completed it with a time of 4:44:31.
Wow.
Today, it’s hard to imagine that women once couldn’t run a marathon alongside men. But Kathrine Switzer helped change that. Thanks to her, women were officially allowed to participate in the Boston Marathon in 1972. Kathrine’s courage and willingness to run helped in the fight for gender equality at sporting events.
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