It would be tough to be any women in sports right know because depending on what they dictate a women is will determine if she can compete. Like sports are all about genetics advantage at the highest level, be a women and have a bit to much testosterone oops to bad banned!
Isn’t this chick, like, not trans at all? I don’t get why shes being dragged into this culture war insanity, unless I’m wrong.
Witchfire@lemmy.world
on 01 Sep 23:02
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Yes she is cis. Conservatives only care about women in sports as long as they turn them on
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com
on 02 Sep 00:39
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Inane Khelif is an example of transphobic hysteria getting out of hand. This poor woman is being demonized and accused of “being a man” because these fuckers don’t think she’s pretty or feminine enough. There’s a misogyny angle too.
Women with a certain jaw shape, small breasts, muscular physique, tone of voice, etc. will be deliberately misgendered even if they have lived as cisgender their whole lives.
But in many ways, its nothing new. Girls who are tomboys or have short hair or wear loose jeans and hoodies have always been slandered for not being “girly” enough. It’s just that trans is the current weapon of choice for conservatives looking to bully people.
Jesus. Imagine being this girl. Seriously fuck the people harassing her right now.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world
on 02 Sep 02:31
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This isn’t an example of transphobia getting out of hand. This is what it is. Just an excuse to bully people.
theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 02 Sep 02:37
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Yep a lot of these “trans-investigations” are an unholy mix of weaponized racism and sexism mixed with wrongly targeted transphobia.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone
on 02 Sep 01:01
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Because people are way, way worse at spotting trans people than they think they are. And they’re really bad at statistics.
Cis women are literally half the population, so even if you assume 95% of cis women look so feminine that nobody could mistake them for male, that still means you’re roughly 10x more likely to run into a ‘masculine looking’ cis woman than a trans woman period, regardless of how masculine or feminine she looks to anyone.
kibiz0r@midwest.social
on 02 Sep 03:08
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Intersex is pretty common. She might know that she falls into that category and doesn’t want to provoke a debate which may go against her.
Buuut we should probably have that debate. The sooner a major athletic org has to admit that a strict gender binary is untenable, the sooner we can bulldoze that talking point from transphobes’ scripts.
TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 02 Sep 14:59
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If I remember correctly the tests themselves were questionable, with sketchy Russian interests involved. She might not even be intersex, simply caught up in a fucked up intersection of geopolitics and culture war bs.
barnaclebutt@lemmy.world
on 02 Sep 05:21
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Poor woman. This must be awful for her. These corrupt assholes should be ashamed of themselves.
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It would be tough to be any women in sports right know because depending on what they dictate a women is will determine if she can compete. Like sports are all about genetics advantage at the highest level, be a women and have a bit to much testosterone oops to bad banned!
Isn’t this chick, like, not trans at all? I don’t get why shes being dragged into this culture war insanity, unless I’m wrong.
Yes she is cis. Conservatives only care about women in sports as long as they turn them on
Inane Khelif is an example of transphobic hysteria getting out of hand. This poor woman is being demonized and accused of “being a man” because these fuckers don’t think she’s pretty or feminine enough. There’s a misogyny angle too.
Women with a certain jaw shape, small breasts, muscular physique, tone of voice, etc. will be deliberately misgendered even if they have lived as cisgender their whole lives.
But in many ways, its nothing new. Girls who are tomboys or have short hair or wear loose jeans and hoodies have always been slandered for not being “girly” enough. It’s just that trans is the current weapon of choice for conservatives looking to bully people.
Jesus. Imagine being this girl. Seriously fuck the people harassing her right now.
This isn’t an example of transphobia getting out of hand. This is what it is. Just an excuse to bully people.
Yep a lot of these “trans-investigations” are an unholy mix of weaponized racism and sexism mixed with wrongly targeted transphobia.
Because people are way, way worse at spotting trans people than they think they are. And they’re really bad at statistics.
Cis women are literally half the population, so even if you assume 95% of cis women look so feminine that nobody could mistake them for male, that still means you’re roughly 10x more likely to run into a ‘masculine looking’ cis woman than a trans woman period, regardless of how masculine or feminine she looks to anyone.
Intersex is pretty common. She might know that she falls into that category and doesn’t want to provoke a debate which may go against her.
Buuut we should probably have that debate. The sooner a major athletic org has to admit that a strict gender binary is untenable, the sooner we can bulldoze that talking point from transphobes’ scripts.
If I remember correctly the tests themselves were questionable, with sketchy Russian interests involved. She might not even be intersex, simply caught up in a fucked up intersection of geopolitics and culture war bs.
Poor woman. This must be awful for her. These corrupt assholes should be ashamed of themselves.
It’s funny how the bigots insist that only what your birth certificates states is relevant for anything except for when they don’t like what it says.