A new study challenges the "save women’s sports" movement, revealing opposition to transgender athletes' rights stems from sexism, adherence to traditional gender norms, and homophobia.
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Researchers found those opposing trans inclusion in sports were also more likely to undervalue female athletes, reject equal media coverage for women’s sports, and support restrictive sex testing.
Sex Testing. Anti-trans knuckle daggers are all for it. What’s that look in sports participation for kids under age 18? AOC’s right: There’s no enforcement mechanism in the new Bill. All enforcement mechanisms would be ok. Coaches won’t cheek-swab (time & cost). Are they going to do visual checks? 😡
It's true. Transphobia is the belief that transfem status is "degrading men" and that transmasc status is giving "undeserved promotions" to women. And that those who reject the binary are simply non-persons.
Old enough to remember when, if you were a female who was good at any sport, you were almost exclusively assumed to be lesbian (used a less kind term) and then terrorized and shunned for it, by your own classmates and opposing parents/teams.
Nowadays if a girl is good she must be a closet trans. Submit her to genital inspections immediately. Even then, she might be post-op so it’s chromosome tests too. Too much testosterone because of PCOS? That makes her a man too… banned !!
Yes, of course. Because we all know those darn public schools are taking kids for sex changes all the time. Sheesh. Could be everywhere! But not MY kid, sweet pure little Karen. Those same asshat parents are the boomers running the show these days. Sigh.
Part of what a lot of anti-trans men hate about us trans women is they see us as men who decided to devalue ourselves by becoming women. That says everything you need to know about their views on women.
Anyone who has lived long enough knows this. Women sports are becoming big. Their athleticism and competiveness is being celebrated. The response, if women are too good at sports, they will face allegations that they are not women or not feminine enough. This is simply sexism.
Similar to what we saw in the 70s, 80s. It's a cycle, for every step forward for women, there's a huge movement to roll us back to some regressive "ideal" time.
The men who endanger women's sports are often on staff. The whole world saw such a gross display of misogyny as Spain collected their World Cup. We have scandals in NWSL that led to a strong players union demanding change. These creeps know nothing or care about the state of women's sports.
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https://www.psypost.org/transgender-athletes-rights-was-opposed-by-those-who-viewed-female-athletes-as-undeserving-study-finds/
https://open.substack.com/pub/juliaserano/p/trans-people-and-sports-everything?r=4pyupx&utm_medium=ios
And they never eve say yes.
Me: “hold on” does quick google “I’ll give you one guess which sport has the highest percentage of CTE outside of football.”
Which is to say this has nothing to do with one of the players being trans.
The physical performance of transgender women who have undergone GAHT for at least 2 years approaches that of cisgender women.
https://bsky.app/profile/kirstimiller30.bsky.social/post/3lg467chtks2e
It never was about safety in bathroom
It was always about bullying and cruelty against an easy scapegoat