You can help people learn about trans participation in sports. Its a nuanced topic that has lots of room for growth for a lot of people. I've had this conversation with probably over a hundred people at this point and unless they are diehard transphobes, this is usually how you teach them.
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Your willingness to patiently inform those of us who are still ignorant is greatly appreciated.
Be kind. Reeducation is painful. We are here to support the wellbeing of the People- their access to food, safety, and civil rights.
We are not the party that punishes others for their votes.
i miss that
But when that same trans woman gets a big loss of her own, somehow that's not some sort of genetic freak superwoman.
It's all garbage.
Then show them this funny video.
We should also maybe ban heavyweight boxing altogether, since they all have a genetic advantage against each other.
What? This makes total sense.
-- Hormone Levels Are Being Used to Discriminate against Female Athletes
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hormone-levels-are-being-used-to-discriminate-against-female-athletes/
We have stuff that's actually important to make laws about.
I know after a few months on HRT, I struggled to carry groceries and open jars.
It seems politicians let themselves get bogged down in this issue and twist themselves in knots.
Because if you logically bring up altered biology by hormones they start going on and on about bone density (even tho that changes with hormones too) and shit.
But yeah. I guess this is the only way to get them to not be fully stupid. Baby steps
BUT, THIS ISNT THAT DIFFICULT TO FIGURE OUT
We may not be "obligated" to educate people, but we still can! All the forces of the oligarchy are against us, small scale is what we have.
I am always trying to take the time to educate, because if they aren't getting factual info from trans folks on the topic, than they are getting it from the bad people, with ill intentions.
& that doesn't help anyone.
Pointing this out works on a lot of Conservatives too. Many of them claim to want 'small government', which is hard to reconcile with the idea that the government should micro-manage who can play softball.
"Men must be taught as if you taught them not,
And things unknown proposed as things forgot."
I find myself on the latter end often enough that I try to have some grace about it in others, but I've definitely lost a lot of patience for it lately, especially with the nuclear block here
I've often found that framing it on their own terminology is often a powerful dialectic. Such themes as "less central control" and "let the family decide" and of course "we should let the market decide." Don't expect them to share our values priorities like equity, use what they do value.
Trans women dont have any more a physical advantage over cis women than cis women do with other cis women. @je27.bsky.social