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.
@goaty Exactly this. It's all about control and about denial of personal autonomy.
(This is why feminists in Ireland in the 1980s got heavily involved in the push for decriminalisation of sex between men. On the face of it, to some it didn't seem to make sense; but when seen through the lens of fundamental human rights and freedoms, it absolutely does.)
@AoifeGreenhamIllustrations I can't 100% say (most of 2018 was a write-off for me for various traumatic reasons, so unfortunately I missed a lot of what went on), although I'd well believe it.
I was involved in the 2015 Marriage Equality referendum campaign, and heard about shitty attitudes there - even while the (initially appalling) legislative proposals on gender recognition were going through the Oireachtas, and discussions around forcing couples to divorce if one transitioned. Awful times.
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