you know who ELSE is discouraged from participating in sports, albeit less so than little faggots or little transmisogynized children? little presumed cis-girls!

there is a unifying logic to athletic gender-segregation and the exclusion of trans women from sports! that logic is patriarchy and white supremacy!

if we're not able to articulate these phenomena as part of a larger athletic misogyny, we aren't able to articulate trans women's exclusion from sports at all!

yet if you try to call a historical figure "trans" people go "whoa now, that's not appropriate to apply that label outside of western culture"

i guess the assumption being that EVERYTHING about the categories "man" and "woman" is immutable and transcends culture, while EVERYTHING about the category "trans" is culturally defined and does not

and this is.. maybe not true?