It is a GREAT time to remember that blanket bans on trans participation in sports are a gateway into tolerating the erasure of trans people from society. As the brilliant @erininthemorning.com puts it, these attacks have never been about sports. 2/ - ThreadSky

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emmezanotti.bsky.social • 38 days ago

It is a GREAT time to remember that blanket bans on trans participation in sports are a gateway into tolerating the erasure of trans people from society. As the brilliant @erininthemorning.com puts it, these attacks have never been about sports.

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emmezanotti.bsky.social•38 days ago

As such, they never end at sports. Once republicans get a sports ban, they come for bathroom access. Once they get bathrooms, they come for health care. Once they get health care, they come for books. Once they get books, they come for art. And once they get the T, they’ll come for the LGB.

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emmezanotti.bsky.social•38 days ago

So I’ll wait for Tuesday and be pleasantly surprised if the bill drop is actually a bill to keep women and girls safe by you know, protecting health care, paid sick leave, abortion access, teaching consent in sex ed, addressing inflation, or investing more money in women’s athletics, but yeahhh.

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emmezanotti.bsky.social•38 days ago

If it’s the assembly line fascism I think it is and that we’ve seen in anti-woman states across the south, expect they’ll try to do more gender-gestapo nonsense like expose everyone’s teenage daughters to genital inspections. All because two trans girls want to play soccer with their friends.

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emmezanotti.bsky.social•38 days ago

It’s also a great time to remember that the same Republican party that’s harassing cisgender women in bathrooms thinks they know what a woman is.

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emmezanotti.bsky.social•38 days ago

That the same Republican party that accidentally defined all Americans as female in their anti-trans executive order thinks they know what a woman is.

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emmezanotti.bsky.social•38 days ago

So look. I’m not saying Republicans are entirely incompetent. They do appear to be very adept at fear mongering, scapegoating, and dividing America.

But if you are a politician on either side of the aisle, and you ACTUALLY value individual freedoms, fairness, and equality.

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