The assumption of advantage is mostly because of a lack of education in what trans people require to transition. The average person thinks a cis man puts on a dress and calls it a day.
They were whining about Eastern Bloc athletes with hyperandrogenism back in the day as well. It’s noted that the black athletes in question are all from Southern African countries like South Africa and Namibia. For whatever reason an unusual number of female athletes coming out of that region are hyperandrogenistic.
It’s a combination of androgynous black women dominating their events in ways that are very unusual compared to other women in their events. The Jamaican women’s track team has never really had the same threat of banning held against them as Caster and the Namibians despite being a dominant force in the sprints for decades. Again, most of the calls for banning them being entirely superficial.
I think the professional level of track and field are taking the right steps and hopefully the same will happen at the high school and college level. People will hand wave high school sports while ignoring that they serve as a way for college scouts to determine the level of competition you’re ready for and that itself determines a lot of things such as scholarship money.
This is awesome, because darts, of all sports, cannot possibly have a meaningful gender divide, so everyone is showing their goddamn ass with this bullshit. Well done Ms van Leuven! Glory is yours eternally!
“Never believe that [transphobes] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The [transphobes] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
Anti-trans sports rhetoric is especially ridiculous in the case of chess and darts, and can hopefully be used by trans activists to inoculate people against gender fascism. You really cannot get better evidence that sport terfs simply want to exclude trans people from all of social life. These stories lay this bare. Of course the transphobes are so high on their own fascist gender ideology that they don't recognize they're making a strategic mistake by fighting these specific battles. Usually the cis will play along with them, but eventually it just becomes too ridiculous to take seriously unless you've completely succumbed to their ideology.
Yeah saw that. However, it's interesting because the other photo on their twitter has 3 people to the left who appear to have the same clothing in both shots. I guess it could be inpainting going on?
I remember that one. I think this will be a problem one day when someone innocent tries to submit a photo in court and the prosecutor will argue that because the phone has AI enhancements, we can't trust the image's small details.
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