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 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?

People talking about "shoulders too square" and "elbows too pointy"

Why enable this? It's so sexist.

@futurebird i've long said that the root of transphobia is sexism! at the end of the day it's all about enforcing a strict definition of what a woman is and protecting the "sanctity" of masculinity
@goaty @futurebird
To put it another way, transphobia can't exist without sexism. If we are all equal, someone else being trans doesn't make any difference. The word "trans" might not even exist.

@leeloo @goaty @futurebird

I would argue that I would still be trans if gender didn't exist. I would just be referred to as a transsexual person rather than a transgender person

@burnoutqueen @goaty @futurebird
Of course you would still be trans, but you might not need a label for it. You would just be on E, like many menopausal women.

My point is that if we stop forcing people into tiny boxes, we don't need to label the boxes. The people we force into those boxes would still exist, but they would each be individuals, not "the content of that box over there".