I was originally going to say that this is a novel spin on their bigotry, but then I realised that there was probably similar bullshit in use in the â30âs.
Magnus Hirschfeld was Jewish
The first book burning included all of his work on what is now called transgender.
âTrans women should be free of discrimination, but also theyâre not real women so they shouldnât be treated as such. This makes complete sense.â
I know, right? The gymnastics of dehumanization of others while trying to act like thatâs not what is happeningâŚ
Yep. When I do the modern survey, heâs one of the people I teach about (I pair him with Walter Benjamin), so I can talk about the early LBGQT+ rights movement and how globalized it was back then. And note how the nazis targeted not just Jewish people, but other groups as well.
New study - same old reality.
Itâs all meritocracy, until itâs shown that cisgendered people arenât ânaturally superiorâ⌠Then, itâs time to use the power of the state to oppress others.
Assholes.
[ETA] What kills me is that Title IX is being employed here to obvious discriminatory effects. It angers me that a law designed to protect women is being used to oppress women.
The failure to understand ârange of normalâ is really distressing, if the conversation is about relative hormone levels and muscle density and etc. Of course, it is not. It is about othering folks who are in some way different than you. They wonât see it thougn.
50 years on and still no trans women winning an Olympic Medal- gold, silver or bronze. Or even making the team.
Itâs interesting how these same people will say that trans people are such a small segment of the population that we donât need to consider them in legislation- but - weâre large enough to consider when it harms us.
Funny how that works.
Not trans, but forces the question.
Especially with How officials, all cis, are trying to minimize her impact.
âHarmsâ⌠yep. If these young ladies are losing to trans athletes maybe itâs just because theyâre not good enough? Thatâs what theyâd be told if they lost to a cisgendered athlete.
Shocked!
OTOH - are they asking to compete against trans guys?
Still - it sucks how Major League Baseball, the NBA and professional curling have prevented trans people from competing because they know weâd dominate the sports.
Not at all.
Yeah, it does. Sports leagues are major bastions of reinforcing cisgendered norms, both via how they make rules for the structure of the teams, and how they shape the narrative for the public. Major league sports seek to project the idealized cisgendered male as physically dominant and normanative (did I spell that right). They are one of the major sources of reinforcing that ideology. Allowing in trans people would most certainly upset that narrative. They have a hard enough time working in cisgendered women.
Look at their history with cis gay men. Not sure I hold much hope thete, not for a time anyway. Womenâs pro sports has a better record with LGB, but not sure if they have addressed (or had to address) T yet.
Agreed. Like any other major institution, they have a ways to go. Iâd love to see womenâs sports leading the way on support for Trans people, but weâll see.
Ironically, in todayâs news:
Iâm good with that.
Right? Everyone is David Bowie. Awesomeness ensues.
Itâs Lily Parr, the sequel
Not mentioned in the article:
Because she was taller and stronger than a lot of male footballers at the time she had to strip in front of an FA panel of men to prove that she was a girl (she was 15 at the time), something she had to repeat as an adult. Then, when she was attracting the attention of menâs teams (I have heard Manchester United were one of the teams looking at signing her) because of her strength and ability, the FA banned women from playing at menâs stadiums.
- Womenâs Football Matches. The following Resolution was adopted:
Complaints having been made as to football being played by women, Council felt impelled to express the strong opinion that the game of football is quite unsuitable for females and should not be encouraged.
Complaints have also been made as to the conditions under which some of the matches have been arranged and played, and the appropriation of receipts to other than charitable objects. The Council are further of the opinion that an excessive proportion of the receipts are absorbed in expenses and an inadequate percentage devoted to charitable objects.
For these reasons the Council requests the Clubs belonging to the Association refuse the use of their grounds for such matches.â FA Consultative Committee,
Gender segregation was not introduced for the benefit of cis women.
